The Mafia and the Sex Taboo: How Bosses Punished Lovers
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In Italian criminal organizations, the "rule of monogamy" is still considered the fundamental element for measuring the value and reliability of its members. And any violation is enough to decree a death sentence. Palermo, November 1993. Totò Riina is sitting in the cage of the Ucciardone bunker courtroom. The president of the court has just accepted the request for what is shaping up to be an epic confrontation: between the former boss of Cosa Nostra bosses, arrested a few months earlier, and the most important mafia informer, that Tommaso Buscetta whose family Riina massacred. Riina has a fit. He gets agitated, urgently asks to speak. And surprisingly, after having requested it, he refuses the confrontation. "He is not a man suited to me," he says. "He is not my height, he is a man who has too many lovers." To understand how the monogamous rule has always been the pillar of the mafia rule - the backbone on which to build the chain of bonds that strangle the life of every affiliate and of every territory hegemonized by their empire - we can only start from here. From the moment in which, that is, the man who gave the order to kill Falcone and Borsellino decides to accuse those who accuse him not of being a charlatan, a putschist, or a murderer (and he could have said so: Buscetta had killed men when he was a young affiliate). No, the accusation is that of being a man "with too many wives". For some strange reason, due above all to American representations of criminal organizations, it is common thought that bosses are dissolute men, womanizers, with vice as a nadir ready to guide them. Yet in Italian criminal organizations monogamy is still the founding element for measuring the value and reliability of affiliates: every violation is enough to decree a death sentence. The mafias, like any other power, by controlling sexuality control life, punishing at will sexual behaviors that violate the rules, they demonstrate that they can strike at any aspect of life that does not obey their dominion. It was Buscetta himself who revealed the rules: divorced people or children of divorced people cannot enter Cosa Nostra, nor is there room for those who frequent prostitutes, have "lovers", have been members of the National Fascist Party or the PCI, use drugs, are homosexual. For this reason, in front of the astonished judges, Riina - a man accused of hundreds of murders, of having killed innocent people, of having tortured and organized attacks - speaks with a firm voice of his "morality": "And I start," he says, "from my family. My grandfather was widowed at forty and had five children with dad, and he never looked for a wife again. My mother was widowed at thirty-three. We live, in our country, by correctness... ( Corriere Tv ). Watch the video on Corriere: https://video.corriere.it/cronaca/maf...
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