Marco Aurelio Denegri Santagadea (16 May 1938 – 27 July 2018) was a

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, literary critic,

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and

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Early life and education

His father was Julio Ernesto Denegri Cornejo - his grandfather was Marco Aurelio Denegri Valega - and his mother was Leonor Santagadea Arana. He attended Colegio San Andrés (formerly ''Colegio Anglo-Peruano''). He later studied law at

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, and then Sexology and Sociology. He said that he attended several universities; however, he considered himself a "self-taught polymath".

Career

During the 1970s, Denegri was the editor of ''Revista Científica y Artística de Cultural Sexual – Fáscinum''. Its first issue was published in April 1972. His career in Peruvian television began in 1973. From 1997 to 2000 he hosted ''A solas con Marco Aurelio Denegri'' on Cable Magico Cultural. He resigned in 2000 and then moved to

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-, thanks to the aid of José Watanabe, and there he hosted a television program called ''La función de la palabra'', where he addressed various aspects of culture-from music to the beauty of the hands-although he considered it

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. He wrote articles for various Peruvian newspapers, which have been published in "De esto y de aquello" by Ricardo Palma University. He wrote a weekly column for El Comercio.

Personal life

Denegri never married and was very reserved regarding his private life. In some programs he expressed being friends with some intellectuals, although during the last years of his life he became totally isolated. His main link to the world was his assistant and maid Rosa Torres; anyone interested in speaking to Denegri had to ring her cellphone to request a telephone conversation with Denegri. After Denegri gave her permission, she connected the phone line and the person in question could communicate directly with him. During his youth he frequently visited Jirón Huatica in Lima, a meeting place for prostitutes and their clients. In "Miscelánea humanística" he drew a map of the location as he knew it. He was also a witness to peculiar sexual encounters. In one of the airings of "La función de la palabra", he said that together with a group of people he witnessed a technical intercourse session which involved great endurance in resisting the urge to ejaculate. Denegri related that he saw a male prostitute enduring 45 minutes of passive oral sex without ejaculating. Furthermore, in an interview conducted by journalist Raúl Tola, Denegri said that he attended an ejaculation contest which consisted in ejaculating up to the farthest distance. Amused by his story, Tola asked him where could one find such contests, to which Denegri only replied that several such contests exist. He was an audiophile and music lover and a Peruvian

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lover; for this reason he introduced the term ''cajonística'' to refer to the art of African-Peruvian cajón playing.

Death

He died on 27 July 2018 due to

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Works

* ''Fáscinum. Ensayos sexológicos''. Palabras preliminares de Carlos Alberto Seguín. Lima: Asociación de Estudios Humanísticos, 1972. 231 p. Contiene los ensayos ''Obscenidad, pornografía y censura'' y ''¿Y qué fue realmente lo que hizo Onán?'', más una ''Bibliografía en español sobre la obscenidad, la pornografía y la censura''. * ''¿Y qué fue realmente lo que hizo Onán?''; Lima: Kavia Kobaya Editores, 1996. * ''Normalidad y anormalidad & El asesino desorganizado''; Lima: Umbra, 2000. () * ''De esto y de aquello''; Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2006. () * ''Hechos y opiniones acerca de la mujer''; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2008. () * ''Cajonística y vallejística''; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2009. () * ''Miscelánea humanística''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2010. () * ''Lexicografía''; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2011. () * ''Obscenidad y Pornografía''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2012. () * ''Esmórgasbord''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2011. () * ''La niña masturbación y su madrastra tabú''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2015. () * ''Poliantea''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2014. () * ''Polimatía''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2014. () * ''Arte y Ciencia en la Gallistica''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2015. () * ''Mixtifori''; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2017. ()

References

External links

Marco Aurelio Denegri , ''La función de la palabra''

Biographic of Marco Aurelio Denegri , Sucedió en el Perú
(in Spanish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Denegri, Marco Aurelio 1938 births 2018 deaths People from Lima Peruvian journalists Male journalists Peruvian sexologists Peruvian male writers Peruvian essayists Linguists from Peru Peruvian people of Italian descent National University of San Marcos alumni