avanfurwet wrote:Interesting. I don't have data and I'd be surprised and impressed if other fans do.
But I always thought the whole "interracial" porn genre originated in USA and stereotypically features African/American males as studs with white women in submissive roles, and extends into porn sub-genres like cuckolding white males. I think Europe is just following the US trend, but I don't know if "interracial" is as popular in Europe.
Iddaoeeok wrote:I don't have data either, just something I've noticed over the years. I agree that the contrast between dark skin and very pale white skin (redheads, blondes - real ones, that is) looks pretty cool.
Chazzum wrote:Thanks for the insights everyone.
While I can take or leave BBC scenes, if given a choice I'd rather see my favorite female stars get pounded by white guys. For me it boils down to this: when I watch porn I think of myself as the guy in the scene with the girl. Being white myself it's easier for me to imagine I'm the guy in the scene -white cock, like my white cock, fucking model. This goes for any ethnicity girl in the scene. I love white guys with black/Asian/Latina/Indian, etc. females.
What a remarkably civil discussion!
Focusing on the taboo aspect, which I'll call the "Mandingo Factor" to distinguish it from (for example) the contrast or even the interracial aspect: The reason I asked about data is because my own intuition leads me to suspect that there are Mandingo fantasy fans, male & female, hetero- & other, in lots more places than just the U.S. My hunch is that the taboo originated with not specifically
American, but rather
slave-owning cultures, in which "We have to keep the slaves down/in chains/under the whip or they'll rape all our women!" has been used as a justification to fan up fear which in turn can smooth the path for brutal oppression. By painting the "Mandingo" figure as being barely in control of his sexual impulses and capable of animalistic acts, the slave-owners accidentally made a lot of bored slave-owning women ... thoughtful. There are indeed tons and tons of examples in American art, literature, and yes, porn, that reflects and probably prolongs & fans the interest of those stereotypes that do indeed date back to slavery in the American colonies. (FWIW, I'm a white American male born & reared in the Old South.)
But I don't think there was any significant difference between the "Mandingo" stereotype as preached in the North American colonies of Great Britain and other contemporaneous British or other European colonials (French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, German) when they had slave-owning colonies. I recall seeing BBC advertisements in the red light districts of Amsterdam, for example. And these are really, really
old stereotypes. Indeed, consider Shakespeare's "Othello," which is practically
made for BBC parody porn now, but was also very much about interracial sex in earlier lusty eras.
So I'm guessing that you might be right in your guess, but by less than you might be guessing. Heh.
Chazzum, do you also like tan lines? I'm a big fan of tan lines, especially bikini tan lines: the contrasting skin tones work like lingerie for me, emphasizing the naughtiness of the naughty bits. Oh, I can appreciate a good complexion when it's in monotone, too -- the pure white, the smooth bronze, the dark chocolate, whatever. But on any given woman, tan lines (even faint ones) make her look twice as naked when she's naked. As for identifying myself with performers: Like the vast majority of porn watchers, I have to use my imagination to identify even with the male performers who are my own race.