Egyptians regarded Sudanese as sexually uncontrolled and unfit for legal marriage

Evidence

With even greater indignation than that displayed by Faraj, the peasant character from the play Bürsat Misr, Banbah excoriates Abü Rida for daring to mix love and race. And, as Sanüa’s lines make clear, her indignation is not provoked by Abü Rida’s status as a servant (in fact, Sanüa repeatedly criticized the snobbery of rich Egyptians and the airs they took in relation to their poorer neighbors), but by his color. Her other discovery, that Nubians actually court each other, exemplifies an attitude prevalent in other contemporary sources as well, that Nubians and Sudanese were sexually uncontrolled and voracious, unconcerned with the amenities of legal marriage. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 377

Categorization

• XREF: This stereotype of colonized/subaltern men as sexually uncontrolled connects to the reader’s prize interest in small acts of decorum toward bodies, and to wider Orientalist discourse about hypersexualized colonized peoples.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 377