How did colonizers understand the sexuality of poeple they colonized?

Question

How did European/ Western colonizers play a role or racialization?

Answer 1

Their is really only one human race.  That means, no matter what country a person is from, what color a person is, that person has the potential of having s*x with a person of the opposite s*x and producing offspring.  So, I guess that they understood the sexuality of the colonials as being the same.

As to "racialization", the Catholic priests that came to the Americas with the Conquistadores made Indian women into s*x slaves...

Answer 2

1) The Europeans saw the American native perspective toward s*x as being completely out of the heterosexual normative system, particular to the christian Europeans. Religious beliefs became a disadvantage for the colonizers to understand the different implications of both s*x, and gender roles in the American cultures. particularly the existence of third genders.

2) The word race was not used to distinguish between different species, it used to be used to distinguish the inhabitants of different nation states e.i. Germans, Italians etc. it wasn't until the missionaries and the intellectuals of Europe were trying to distinguish between the people found in the new world that they used their preconceived notion of superiority. which is a combination of Religious and philosophical beliefs, to apply the term to the new different people, whom they considered backward and lower in the hierarchy of humanity

Answer 3

They did not.

Answer 4

mix marriages can very well explain that.

Answer 5

I do believe there is only one species of human on earth. Perhaps social science has a different count?

Answer 6

They did not and did not want to understand. They came with own standards which they imposed on the colonized people. Most of the time even their own morals were not applied to colonized people in order to express freely their own darkest impulses. It was in a way the behavior of people when they think nobody watches. Which was the case for quite a while.

Answer 7

I don't know. I just know I don't want my COLON "izered"

Answer 8

Perhaps by experience. Having s*x with the natives is not a bad way to start. It's literally a hands-on thing. I honestly don't understand the point you are trying to make with respect to the racialization by Western and European colonizers but I have to agree with the majority who answered that since there is only one single human race, the colonizers and the colonized peoples gradually become amalgamated as the co-existence lasts until whatever differences they have at the beginning of time slowly disappear.