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Erotics of Sin: Promiscuity, Polygamy and Homo-Erotics in Missionary Photography from the Congolese Rainforest

Through a contextualized reading of a series of photographs taken by Premonstratensian missionaries in the Belgian Congo, this article shows the “porno-tropic” dynamics at work in their photographic practices and politics of representation. The analysis of pictures of black women and girls, black men and boys, reveals a missionary economy of desire as an “erotics of sin,” fueled by tensions between morality and pornography, and integrating both misogynous and homo-erotic aspects into its imaginative geography of transgression.