Kahlo called Trotsky piochitas – little goatee. They met at her sister Cristina’s house and not surprisingly, Natalia threatened to separate. Patenaude quotes a sexually explicit letter, dated 19 July 1937, in which he wrote to her: “Since I arrived here, not once has my poor cock stood up straight. It’s as though it doesn’t exist. But inspite of it, I myself am thinking tenderly of your old, dear cunt. I want to suck on it, shove my tongue all the way inside it. Natalochka, my dear, I will ever more strongly fuck you with my tongue and with my cock. Forgive me, Natalochka, these lines, it seems it’s the first time in my life that I wrote to you like this.” (2009 p.62) Apparently later that year after he had reconciled with Natalia, Trotsky also made unwanted advances to Cristina, “one four or five occasions directly and insistently propositioned her”. (2009 p.64)