Por: Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero*
La historia de amor entre Martina Parra y Juana María Martínez estaba condenada al fracaso. Nacidas en Suesca (Cundinamarca) hacia finales del siglo XVIII, las dos mujeres llevaron una amistad sosegada hasta 1802, cuando una serie de impredecibles eventos cambiaron sus vidas para siempre. Todo comenzó con la muerte del marido de Juana María, en el mes de junio de aquel año. La soledad hizo que “a los pocos días” la nueva viuda invitase a Martina to live with it.
Life was normal until one September morning, the friends decided to go to the neighboring municipality of Nemocón looking for a wheelbarrow of firewood. On the way there was sunshine, humidity and chicha. According to the story itself Juana Maria, the torpor of the afternoon and the power of the fermented drink immersed in such a state of drowsiness, which was forced to propose to take a short nap on the road side ditches. When he awoke his friend had his hand "inside their petticoats." And then "sinned."
returned to the house on foot, but "nothing was ever to be the same. " As confessed Juana Maria, from that night not only shared house, but bed.
The couple was reported and arrested for Suesca authorities in October 1803. Martina and Mary Jane were accused of living together - "in concubinage, bad and impure life" - and to maintain relationships "unisexual", "unnatural" and "substandard." Given the difficult situation, Jeanne-Marie was the widow who took the initiative and testified first. After narrating the erotic ride Nemocón, the accused tried to justify their actions by saying that his mistress had a penis hidden that came to light when it was "time to sin."
The outrageous statement by surprise Suesca's neighbors, who thought not of the "unisexuality" of the defendants, but in the unprecedented nature and deeply "abnormal" by Martin Parr. Having been accused of hermaphrodite, lost his right to testify.
The newly discovered "monster" who had "a man and a woman" should be tried and punished harshly. The confused Suesca mayor, who refused to see for himself the degeneration of "Martina", immediately referred the case to the Mayor of the Province. The mayor is just wrote a long letter to his colleagues in the capital of the kingdom of New Granada, which highlighted the potential scientific discoveries that would allow the discovery of so grisly specimen.
Once in Santa Fe, Martina Parra was isolated in a cell without any communication with other inmates who had been "put in jeopardy." However, the expert faculty of the School Physical Medical and Surgical found "nothing unusual" in the prison. According to his opinion, Jeanne-Marie could have been confused by touching the clitoris of his partner, "A partecilla like the glans penis attached below of the labia majora, which takes long and hard with age and lust. "
Suesca Back in the stunned Martina Parra was heard to the authorities for the first time. In his statement he denied any relationship with Mary Jane. Said they had not ever slept with her, said even he would have preferred to sleep with the "sheep" in the backyard. Reneged on their years of friendship and affection that he once professed.
The Folio 226, Criminal and Trial Fund, the General Archive of the Nation, lies the evidence of the end of the love story between Martina and Mary Jane.
* Anthropologist, professor National University acevedo.tatiana @ gmail.com
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