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We used a qualitative, descriptive research approach. Individual and semistructured interviews were conducted with women from different sections of the prison over a 2\u2010month period. Participants highlighted the site for conjugal visits, the <jats:italic>Venusterio<\/jats:italic>, as a place of privacy and sexual expression between couples from outside prison. Motivated by loneliness, need of protection, and desire for affection, participants enacted alternate gender and sexual identities and sexual orientation. Some previously heterosexual women became \u2018machos\u2019, women taking on dominant masculine identities. Women found a paradoxical freedom to express a malleable and fluid sexual identity, an identity that might not go outside the prison. Informed by Judith Butler's idea of performativity, we argue that women could enact both different gender and sexual identities in search of satisfying their affective and erotic desires while under the duress of incarceration. The findings suggest a need for a more fluid understanding of gender and sexuality, especially for those midwives and nurses who strive to promote sexual health, not only reproductive health.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/nin.12183","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,26]],"date-time":"2017-01-26T10:25:23Z","timestamp":1485426323000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Sexuality behind bars in the female central penitentiary of Santiago, Chile: Unlocking the gendered binary"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Francisca Alejandra","family":"Castro Madariaga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Promotion of Women and Newborns Facultad de Medicina University of Chile  Santiago Chile"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bel\u00e9n Estefan\u00eda","family":"G\u00f3mez Garc\u00e9s","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Promotion of Women and Newborns Facultad de Medicina University of Chile  Santiago Chile"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alicia","family":"Carrasco Parra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health Promotion of Women and Newborns Facultad de Medicina University of Chile  Santiago Chile"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Foster","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emory University  Atlanta GA USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","first-page":"73","article-title":"Mujeres invisibles: Las c\u00e1rceles femeninas en Am\u00e9rica Latina [Invisible women: Women's prisons in Latin America.]","volume":"208","author":"Anthony C.","year":"2007","journal-title":"Revista Nueva Sociedad"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1071\/AH020149"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","unstructured":"Ayala A.(2013).La irregularidad de la visita conyugal en conductas de promiscuidad sexual en las internas del Centro de Rehabilitaci\u00f3n Social de Ambato. 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