colonial

As African countries cut colonial ties, many ramped up coffee production.

But anthropology and archaeology grew from twisted colonial roots: at first, from Europeans trying to understand the Indigenous peoples in the places they’d taken over.

So in the 19th century, colonial authorities created a law that criminalized “intercourse against the order of nature”—in other words, anything that went against Christian ideals about gender, sex, and sexuality.

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These pests could extract half a liter of horse blood daily while transmitting fatal diseases that devastated domestic horses, leaving colonial powers reliant on thousands of humans to transport goods.

While the term “missionary position” coming from sexual rules imposed by Christian missionaries is likely urban legend, it is true that Christian missionaries attempted to control sexual activities in colonial spaces.