In the introduction to her landmark study Bodies that Matter, Judith Butler expands upon the Foucauldian view of sex as a “regulatory ideal,” a notion that clearly ties into our study of the marginalized body’s struggle for agency and mobility in the face of culturally-rooted barriers erected to restrict or control it. As she notes, “ ‘sex’ not only functions as a norm, but is part of a regulatory practice that produces the bodies it governs, that is, whose regulatory force is made clear as a kind of productive power, the power to produce – demarcate, circulate, differentiate – the bodies it controls” (1). Our study of Allende’s representations of sexuality in the trilogy emphasizes the regulation of corporeal spaces in terms of contact zones forged by intimate contact among oppositional or forbidden sectors of society, in both hidden and public spaces. A lengthy study of Allende’s fiction would be incomplete without a consideration of the role of the sexual being, given the centrality of eroticism in her works. In fact, her emphasis on romantic, heterosexual love scenes is a frequent cause of the stigma discussed in the initial chapter of this monograph, given its ties to the author’s stereotype as overly sentimental and frivolous. However, a geographic reading of Allende makes it clear that the author’s progressive views inform her representations of the erotic sphere, as they consistently reject the mechanisms of control that have traditionally restricted women’s expression of sexual desire, positioned women as the targets of sexual exploitation or commodification, or required them to passively accept rape as a sad reality of female existence. The author’s body of work as a whole, ranging from the trilogy to her own confessional tales of sexual awakening and maturity in her memoirs, insists upon female sexual agency and women’s authority over their own bodyspace. As a result, Allende places great importance on her female protagonists’ development of sexual autonomy free from the threat or control of men. Her works consciously reject the sexual norms imposed by Marianism and machismo, often by inverting the contradictory cultural paradigm that demands female chastity by all but the wanton female but encourages unrestrained male virility.