«The darkness barely allows us to identify the silhouettes engaged in continuous activity. Suddenly, the bright light of a door that opens briefly illuminates the slow wandering of some bodies through the corridors; others, leaning against the walls, masturbate slowly and conscientiously, invitingly. If you can get your eyes used to the darkness and observe carefully, you can see a mass of hands, arms, legs, and mouths in the seats. Gasps. Murmurs. Anxious eyes that scrutinize the shadows. "You don't know if it's night or day in the blackness of the second floor of the Buñuel cinema."

Thus begins this fascinating text about a cinema that not only projects pornographic material but also houses all types of erotic relationships in the port of Veracruz.

Many known, although rarely studied, hookup dynamics that take place in porn movie theaters and the various homoerotic practices that occur in them are examined in this book: the box office, the anteroom, the men's bathroom, the floor The ground floor or the second floor have clear and distinctive rules that allow the intensification of the desires of the attendees. We delve into a variety of encounters between those desiring bodies, which Judith Butler defined as abject, which take advantage of the darkness and anonymity to position the power of the phallus on stage, as a way of resisting the stigmatized meanings that society grants. to these practices.