Benito of the Rusty Anchor, who possessed the only known camera in Polonio, though he would deny this charge vehemently for the rest of his life. As the scandal spread, articles in Spain and South America referred to the beach in question, this Cabo Polonio, as a “perverts’ beach,” a “land of Sapphic urges,” a “paradise for tortilleras, maricones, and invertidos of all kinds.” The words were meant as insults. But the following summer, in late 1983, there would be new visitors, also castoffs. Cantoras. Maricones. Seeking the promised land of perversions.
