La Rosa de Guadalupe - Bienvenido al SIDA

La Rosa de Guadalupe - Bienvenido al SIDA

This is an episode from the TV series "La Rosa de Guadalupe" which has standalone stories that are meant to portray real-life events, such as drug use, sexual activity, family problems, violence, usually with children or adolescents as the antagonists. In the series, the episodes generally end with the main characters praying to the Virgen de Guadalupe and taking responsibility for their mistakes and learning from them through divine intervention. In this particular episode, the character is in a relationship, and cheats on his girlfriend with a stranger he meets at a club. The woman he met in the club leaves an ominous message, and because they had unprotected sex, he begins to fear that he has contracted AIDS.
The moral of the episode is essentially that casual sex is bad - not really because of infidelity, but because it undermines the sanctity of sex for reproductive purposes and the institution of marriage. Along with this, there are many other subversive messages within the episode about power dynamics within a relationship, gender roles, and expectations about sex for men and women.

Televisa

YouTube

2018

Television series

Spanish

Television series

41:06 minutes

Televisa

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