1.   Commercial sex, interracial sex, homosexuality and even Playboy were all suppressed.

2.   He notes that along with white preconceptions about blacks go anxieties about interracial dating, a euphemism for interracial sex and marriage.

3.   If fears of interracial sex underlay bans on interracial marriage, it was marriage that became the greater threat.

4.   In previous decades, before slavery took hold, interracial sex was more prevalent than at any other time in American history.

5.   Modern liberals typically see the Southern obsession with interracial sex as a product of Confederate hysteria.

6.   Rothman concluded there was a lot of interracial sex back then, that people knew and gossiped about it, and that Callender reported with surprising accuracy.

7.   Rothman did his dissertation on interracial sex in old Virginia.

8.   State laws criminalized interracial sex and marriage.

9.   The laws against interracial sex were particularly cruel and stupid, though they had been repealed by the time the ANC took over.

10.   The notion that Jefferson would have felt obliged to embrace celibacy seems implausible, as does the idea that he would have recoiled at the idea of interracial sex.