Colonial officials prosecuted interracial intimacy under charges of social nuisance

Evidence

In 1933, after many brushes with local authorities, an unrepentant MelIntosh was brought before Tshekedi’s court ostensibly on charges of social nuisance and insubordination but as much as a result of “concern over his frivolous sexual socialization with “native” women. Phinehas was sentenced at the outcome of the hearing to a flogging, two strokes of which were administered before Tshekedi dismissed him. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the Immodesty article’s theme: anxieties about interracial/sexual contact regulated through courts dressed up as public-order charges.