This paper addresses disputes over sexuality that took place during the nineteen-sixties and seventies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the context of the so-called “sexual revolution,” scientific and media debates sought to unveil the truth about sex. Feminists and the homosexual community confronted those ideas. The article reconstructs the details of that relationship in the city of Buenos Aires. It looks particularly at confrontation between the discurse in psychoanalysis and sexology popularization press and by the Argentinean Feminist Union, the Feminist Liberation Movement and the Homosexual Liberation Front.
sexual revolution; popular psychoanalysis; popular sexology; feminism; homosexuality