Lupanares e puteiros os últimos suspiros do Rendez-vous na sociedade Manauara (1959-1969)

Abstract

Manaus in the sixties. The method is already used in oral history, was the interviews with “putanheiros” and regulars who experienced the heyday of these brothels. Within the dictates of the Cultural History guidelines Edward Palmer Thompson and Roger Chartier were used in the theoretical approach. The whorehouses and brothels were the last brothels called “rendez-vous” that emerged in France and was imported to Manaus on the “boom” of gumífera economy. Walked the path of modern brothels from its origin in the nineteenth century until its demise in the mid- twentieth century. In Manaus approached its birth and followed until the fifties, when the first whorehouse with certain characteristics arises predominantly and lasted until the mid seventies. On brothels and whorehouses were exposed to representations, through customs, habits and behaviors of “putanheiros” and their relationships with prostitutes in and out of the whorehouses, the space occupied by brothels within the town, the specificity of the creeks in its architecture, the reaction society through newspapers and police repression, the blow dealt by the rise of the counterculture, and finally replacing the motels like activity site paid sex extinction.