This chapter is a reconstruction of narratives about the experiences of working-class men living in a world in which women are presented as already commodified and where love comes to epitomize the revolutionary utopia. According to multiple stories and articles published in the working-class press, exploitation is not only experienced by men in the context of labor, but also as the grief of being irrevocably left alone. The press is full of tales where male workers loss a woman they love and as a consequence of that lost, they fall into a process of moral, intellectual and physical decay. This motif is treated according to a chronological order: the first sections deal with tales about the loss of the mother based on the figure of the orphan [huacho]. All the narratives studied repeat the same plot: the Huacho is the son of a woman who for different reasons ends up becoming a sex worker and abandons him to his luck. Consequently, he is raised by different institutions where he is sexually abused by other men. This is presented as the beginning of the worker’s moral, physical and intellectual degeneration which, according to the press, affects the workers’ virility and turns them into servile feminize beings who lost their strength, reason and capacity for revolt. Hence, it shows that these writings posit alienation as a form of class decay based upon a loss of traditional virility and manhood. The chapter ends by showing how these patriarchal tropes paradoxically end up blurring the difference between the sexes, making it impossible for working-class ‘men’ to recuperate ‘their women’ because they are no longer men. This paradox present in the working-class press is interpreted as a side effect of positing the revolution under patriarchal and misogynist principles.