EROTICA IN OLD SANTA FE
  
   We don't know what those Latinas of yore did, now do we? Obeyed their husbands? Check. Fathers and brothers? Check. Priests? Mothers-in-law? The list just grows.

The Sandoval sisters did exactly what they wanted, when they wanted, and to the intensity that they wanted. And all while living on a rough frontier at the juncture of three cultures. read more about The Sandoval Sisters


SEPHARDIM

From Providencia Sandoval's diary written in 1563:
Chapter 17, La Soltera, The Sandoval Sisters

   I sat on my father’s lap and kissed him, no longer the newlywed, but the loveliest daughter in the household. I asked him about the family chart. He was gratified that I took an interest in the family history. I stroked his hair and tickled him. I asked him about Hidalgo.

“He was my father’s cousin. A notable man with a position of great responsibility. He was a Grand Inquisitor,” my father said. “Hidalgo left no legitimate heirs
. . .He had taken up with Catalina Nuñez de Ribera. Her mother was a midwife in the Jewish district.” 

“She was a Jewess?” 

“The mother peddled trinkets and charms to ward off the plague. Hidalgo tried her for witchcraft.” Father’s breath came in trembling gasps, but still he continued. “Of course, she was found guilty.” 

Catalina became Hidalgo's mistress and a procurer of counterfeit limpiezas de sangre.

Her mixed-blood progeny settled the remote northern regions of New Spain.