In the minds of whites who thought like Ellis, it was near impossible for “uncivilized” nonwhite races to experience any absence of sexual desire. This cannot be separated from the enduring racial fetishism, sociosexual terror, and mythologized hypersexualization of the “savage.” Also inseparable from this are white anxieties about “race suicide.” If the white race does not reproduce at rapid and consistent enough rates, then surely they will be overtaken by the “uncivilized races” and inevitably forfeit their institutional and political power to oppress all others.
