Marco Aurelio Denegri
{{Short description|Peruvian linguist, journalist, television host and sexologist}}
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{{family name hatnote|Denegri|Santa Gadea|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Marco Aurelio Denegri
| birth_name = Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea
| image = Marco Aurelio Denegri.jpg
| caption = Denegri in 2015
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|5|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Lima, Peru
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|7|27|1938|5|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = Lima, Peru
| alma_mater = Colegio San Andrés
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
| occupation = Writer, literary critic, television presenter, sexologist
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| mother = Leonor Santa Gadea Arana
| father = Julio Ernesto Denegri Cornejo
| relations =
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Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea (16 May 1938 – 27 July 2018){{Cite web|url=https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/1286540-marco-aurelio-denegri-fallecio-80-anos-funcion-palabra|title=Marco Aurelio Denegri falleció a los 80 años tras una fibrosis pulmonar|website=La República|date=27 July 2018|access-date=10 May 2019|language=es|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727130201/https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/1286540-marco-aurelio-denegri-fallecio-80-anos-funcion-palabra/ |archive-date=27 July 2018}} was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.{{cite news|url=https://diariovoces.com.pe/web/78505/esos-barrancos-hace-tiempo-dejaron-de-ser-nuestros/|title=Esos barrancos hace tiempo dejaron de ser nuestros|date=26 July 2012|work=Diario Voces|language=es|access-date=29 July 2012}}
Early life and education
His father was Julio Ernesto Denegri Cornejo (his great grandfather was Marco Aurelio Denegri Valega), and his mother was Leonor Santa Gadea Arana.{{Cite web|url=https://gw.geneanet.org/fracarbo?lang=es&n=denegri+valega&oc=0&p=marco+aurelio |title=Marco Aurelio Denegri Valega - Árbol genealógico Francisco Javier Carbone Montes |publisher=GeneaNet |author=Francisco Javier Carbone Montes |access-date=29 November 2019 |language=es}} He attended Colegio San Andrés (formerly Colegio Anglo-Peruano).{{Cite web|url=https://peru21.pe/cultura/marco-aurelio-denegri-recuerda-trayectoria-reconocido-intelectual-417283|title=Marco Aurelio Denegri: Recuerda la trayectoria del reconocido intelectual|date=27 July 2018|access-date=9 May 2019|publisher=Perú 21|language=es}} He later studied law at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and then Sexology and Sociology. He said that he attended several universities; however, he considered himself a "self-taught polymath".{{Cite book|title=De esto y aquello|author=Marco Aurelio Denegri|publisher=Universidad Ricardo Palma|year=2006|location=Lima|language=es|isbn=9972236161}}
Career
During the 1970s, Denegri was the editor of Revista Científica y Artística de Cultural Sexual – Fáscinum.{{cite web|title=Marco Aurelio Denegri (1938-2018)|url=http://www.arkivperu.com/mad-1938-2018/|work=Arkivperu|date=28 July 2018|access-date=15 August 2018|language=es}} Its first issue was published in April 1972.{{fact|date=June 2020}}
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 TV Peru-, 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 counter-cultural.{{Cite news|title=Marco Aurelio Denegri: TV Perú transmitirá programas inéditos de intelectual peruano|url=https://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/marco-aurelio-denegri-tv-peru-transmitira-programas-ineditos-noticia-540703|date=28 July 2018|access-date=31 July 2018|newspaper=El Comercio|language=es}}
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.{{fact|date=June 2020}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTA5vnK7yBM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/eTA5vnK7yBM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Documental Sucedió en el Perú - Marco Aurelio Denegri - 05/11/2018|website=YouTube |language=es}}{{cbignore}}
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.{{Cite book|last1=Denegri|first1=Recuerdos huatiqueros|title=Miscelánea Humanística|year=2010|publisher=Inca Garcilaso de la Vega|page=115|language=es|volume=XI}}
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.{{Cite book|title=Casa Tomada: Marco Aurelio Denegri|publisher=TV Perú|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpMIPMMuuj8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/DpMIPMMuuj8 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=28 March 2019|date=20 February 2015|language=es}}{{cbignore}}
He was an audiophile and music lover and a Peruvian cajón lover; for this reason he introduced the term cajonística to refer to the art of African-Peruvian cajón playing.{{Cite web|url=http://arteycultura.tv/2012/05/05/marco-aurelio-denegri/|title=Marco Aurelio Denegri (Lima, 6 de mayo de 1938) {{!}} Arte y Cultura TV todo en VIDEOS.|access-date=31 July 2018|date=5 May 2012|website=arteycultura.tv|language=es-PE|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323035409/http://arteycultura.tv/2012/05/05/marco-aurelio-denegri/|archive-date=23 March 2019}}
Death
He died on 27 July 2018 due to pulmonary emphysema.{{Cite web|url=https://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/marco-aurelio-denegri-murio-intelectual-icono-popular-perfil-noticia-540526-noticia/|title=Murió Marco Aurelio Denegri, el intelectual que se hizo ícono popular|access-date=27 July 2018|date=27 July 2018|website=El Comercio|first=Juan Carlos|last=Fangacio|language=es}}
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. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-56-5}})
- De esto y de aquello; Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2006. ({{ISBN|9972-236-16-1}})
- Hechos y opiniones acerca de la mujer; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2008. ({{ISBN|978-612-302-834-3}})
- Cajonística y vallejística; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2009. ({{ISBN|978-9972-38-682-4}})
- Miscelánea humanística; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2010. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-14-5}})
- Lexicografía; Lima: Editorial San Marcos, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-612-302-421-5}})
- Obscenidad y Pornografía; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2012. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-52-7}})
- Esmórgasbord; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2011. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-28-2}})
- La niña masturbación y su madrastra tabú; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2015. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-85-5}})
- Poliantea; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2014. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-72-5}})
- Polimatía; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2014. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-78-7}})
- Arte y Ciencia en la Gallistica; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2015. ({{ISBN|978-612-4050-92-3}})
- Mixtifori; Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, 2017. ({{ISBN|978-612-4340-12-3}})
References
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External links
- [http://www.tvperu.gob.pe/programas/la-funcion-de-la-palabra Marco Aurelio Denegri | La función de la palabra] {{in lang|es}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTA5vnK7yBM Biographic of Marco Aurelio Denegri | Sucedió en el Perú] (in Spanish)
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