| Sumario: | The interviews carried out in 1904 by journalist Carlos Roumagnac among women imprisioned in Mexico City's Belem Jail and collected in his book Los criminales en México provides useful insight into female homosexuality or “safismo”, both of the way it was practiced by the inmates and the way it was perceived by Porfirian society. The dialogue between Roumagnac and the inmates reflects the meeting of two very different axiological spheres: the jail and the outside world. In prison, safismo was considered a frequent and tolerable behavior, something nobody bothered hiding or repressing; however, the prevailing morality in Porfirian society considered ir not only an aberrant vice that defied nature, but also a dangerous and disruptive activity that defied social order and hierarchies, supreme values for the positivistic paradigm.
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