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Sexuality and Sexual Identity
As the García girls grow up they pass through adolescence. They don't get much of a "birds-and-bees" talk from their parents, aside from a warning not to go "behind the palm trees" with boys. But they figure it out for themselves, and the adult García sisters go on to have plenty of sexual relationships—successful and not-so-successful—with men.
But in How The García Girls Lost Their Accents, sexual relationships don't just take place within the confines of marriage, no matter how much Mami and Papi insist on it. In fact, the chapter "The Kiss" illustrates how lots of relationships, even between a father and his own daughters, are full of sexual tension.
In "The Kiss," the erotic game played by Papi and his four daughters shows that their relationships with their father are just a teensy bit incestuous. Paging Doctor Freud!
For Yolanda, sex plays a big part in her understanding of her own identity. She's bothered by the fact that she seems to feel trapped between a "Catholic señorita" and a "woman's libber." Why can't she be more like her little sister Fifi? That girl really knows how to work it.
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