INCEST AND GOTHIC (HOMO)EROTICISM: AN UNCOMFORTABLE AND STRANGE SEXUAL PRACTICE AND AESTHETICS IN COSTA RICAN MALE HOMOPOETICS

Abstract

This article analyzes hermeneutically, on the one hand, the deconstruction of incest as a prohibition, based on two poems by Ioan Vidal (1960) and Gustavo Arroyo (2018). In these texts, the lyrical actants naturally enunciate, live and defend incest and homoeroticism. These allow them to dismantle social, moral or family restrictions, in order to establish a freer and more joyful sexual and existential relationship. On the other hand, the concept of gothic (homo)eroticism and its porno-satanic perspective is proposed. They are studied based on poems by Luis Antonio Bedoya (2015) and Roberto Andre Acuña Vargas (2022). This aesthetic polemicizes taboos such as the apparent monstrosity, pathologization or moral or spiritual degeneration of homosexual subjects, men who have sexual relationships with other men and even intersexuals, with the purpose of turning these meanings and literary and politically affirming deep knowledge and emotional revitalization of eroticism or intermasculine love.