Hecho en Mexico!

I was in Mexico recently, and as per my custom when visiting foreign countries, I checked out their porn.

I was somewhat surprised that there wasn't a bigger porn industry in Mexico, what with America's love of "Latinas", but taking some cultural considerations and some debatable statistics into account, it makes sense that American content still rules the porn roost.

Mexicans read a lot more paper materials than the US and Canada. There are a lot of newsstands on the streets of Mexico city. They sell a variety of magazines, covering insightful topics like celebrities, wrestling, sports and politics. Not all newsstands carry porn, but if they do, they've got Hustler, Playboy etc., usually the Spanish language version, and often several months or even years out of date. A few have the much smaller Historias Calientes and a few other Mexican mags. I'm attributing this high literacy to the fact that most people probably don't have internet access the way we do up here.



These magazines are smaller (5.5x8.5) and feature a real Mexicana on the cover. With very little exceptions, these women are dark skinned, short and, by Northern North American standards, a little dumpy. But this is what Mexican men like (if the TV show Family Guy is telling it straight). And they have a lot of this to choose from on the streets of Mexico. The Mexican woman prefers to accentuate the fat around her hips by displaying the "muffin-top" that so many of us North of Mexico are afraid of. While on the streets it seems that this is the ideal, the Mexican media mostly ignores women who are a) dark skinned b) short and c) not thin. Advertisements and TV shows are filled with leggy brunettes and blondes from Argentina and other latin American countries who wear short skirts, dance around and contribute to the inanity of Mexican TV. Instead of showing off the Juliana's of Mexico, we get an idealised version of beauty based on what Hollywood and New York runways have established as "babe". Big deal, we do it up North as well.

Unfortunately, besides the spread of Juliana, the magazine featured re-prints from other silicone and blonde porn magazines, a few 'you're never going to believe this' sex letters, interviews with people who claim to have sex in movie theatres, some porn movie reviews and then some swinger ads. The Mexican content is slim. This may have something to do with a certain modesty of Mexican women that is not shared across Latin America. They don't wear skirts generally. No joke. Seriously, I've been to Havana as well, so I can say these things about the Southern hemisphere. Like, tight and skimpy is synonymous with Latin America, but in Mexico, it's just tight. Skimpy is so not in this season.

Luckily porno comes though to feed Mexican men their true desires. Meet Juliana, in all her rounded belly, 5 foot one, droopy-titted glory.