"Before Night Falls," by Reinaldo Arenas


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Written by Sensitive Stephen am 09 Mar 2001 07:10:54:

This new film adaptation of Cuban writer Arenas' memoir of the same name is now making the rounds of the art movie theaters. I doubt it is a boy movie (although evidently Arenas is portrayed as a teenager in part of the film), but I mention it here because I browsed through the movie tie-in edition of his memoir today and came across these passages that struck a certain chord with me. Doubtlessly, these scenes are not portrayed in the film.

--Sensitive Stephen

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From Pages 18-20 of "Before Night Falls":

I think I always had a huge sexual appetite. Not only the mares, sows, hens, or turkeys but almost all animals were objects of my sexual passion, including dogs. There was one particular dog who gave me great pleasure. I would hide with him behind the garden tended by my aunts and would make him suck my cock. The dog got used to it and in time would do it freely.

Those years, between the ages of seven and ten, were a time of great eroticism, of a sexual voracity that, as I said, was all-embracing. It involved all of nature, including trees. I would carve out a hole in a soft-stemmed tree, like papaya, and stick my penis into it. It was great fun to fuck a tree. My cousins also did it, with melons, pumpkins, and soursops. But on of my cousins, Xavier, confided that his greatest pleasure was to fuck a rooster. One morning the rooster was found dead; I think it was not as a result of the size of my cousin's penis, which was really quite small; I think the rooster died of shame from getting fucked when normally he was the one to fuck all the hens in the yard.

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In the country, I think, it is a rare man who has not had sexual relations with another man. Physical desire overpowers whatever feeling of machismo our fathers take upon themselves to instill in us.

An example of this is my uncle Rigoberto, the oldest of my uncles, a married, serious man. Sometimes I would go to town with him. I was just about eight years old and we would ride on the same saddle. As soon as we were both in the saddle, he would being to have an erection. Perhaps in some way my uncle did not want this to happen, but he could not help it. He would put me in place, life me up and set my butt on his penis, and during that ride, which would take an hour or so, I was bouncing on that huge penis, riding, as it were, on two animals at the same time. I think eventually Rigoberto would ejaculate. The same thing happened on the way back from town. Both of us, of course, acted as if we were not aware of what was happening. He would whistle or breathe hard while the horse trotted on. When he got back, Carolina, his wife, would welcome him with open arms and a kiss. At that moment we were all very happy.

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