Chapter 5 explores the shifting landscape of male honor, female shame, and a new kind of relationship based on romance, love, and intimacy. To become modern lovers, working-class men needed a traditional male role model against which to construct their new, more “companionate” selves. Don Juan Tenorio proved the perfect foil. Ubiquitous in Mexican popular culture, Don Juan epitomized all that was wrong with traditional male scripts: arrogance, impetuosity, misogyny, cruelty, and egotism. For penny press writers, local tenorios were figures of fun, ridiculed for their absurd seductions and prickly tempers. And while writers also poked fun at ordinary working men, more often than not this affectionate fraternal satire of working-class sentiment exposed their clumsy efforts to accommodate (rather than deceive and dominate) their female partners. This modern approach to gender relations puts working-class Mexican men at the forefront of a phenomenon that scholars call the “transformation of intimacy.”