The Flower and the ScorpionPrior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of sex or sexuality equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those promoted by modern Western peoples. In this innovative ethnohistory, Pete Sigal seeks to shed new light on Nahua concepts of the sexual without relying on the modern Western concept of sexuality. Along with clerical documents and other Spanish sources, he