Lee Carter: Wow, it's going to be a big book.

Ruven Afanador: 100-something pages. (192 pages with 175 photos, to be exact.)

LC: There's a lot of sexuality here. Are bullfighters heroes, sexual objects like movie stars?

RA: Yes, women go crazy.

LC: And some men?

RA: Yes. (laughs) I have seen women throw their clothes at the corrida (bullfight). Normally when the bullfight is over, if they have done an incredible corrida, the president or mayor will award a prize to the bullfighter and it's usually an ear, or two ears, or a tail. Getting the tail is the biggest honor. The bullfighter will walk a big circle and everyone waves. Everything you throw, clothing, a hat or a shawl, his assistant matadors will toss back to create a path. I have seen many women throw bras because they were so swept up in a frenzy.