I understand everyone has an opinion, but this article starts off talking about the rise in Google searches for "Asian porn". While a lot of the posters have some experience with the East, to assume all of these Google searches are only by people who have been to "the Orient" is ridiculous. There's two main points at play here:

Point #1: Insecure societies frown on "out of race" relationships. Many people in this world would be disowned by their family for dating a different race, let alone marrying one. And when this pressure is removed (aka U.S. lately) there is still a lot of not only "carry over" hidden bias (which demonizes US male Asian female attraction as demonstrated on this board), but there is also a lot of "forbidden fruit" attraction (also demonstrated).

Point #2: As you come to despise what you know ("familiarity breeds contempt"), you fantasize about things you don't know ("newer is better"). Raised in a single race family/community, many people come to associate the things you don't like and that everyone does as a racial characteristic, rather than a social one. A person of a different race race raised in the same environment probably has the same "flaws". As a corollary to this, "different is good". Unless point #1 overrides it, many people will overlook the unknown and undescovered flaws for the "same old crap.

I travel to "the East" frequently, and if I am travelling with a leggy blond or a buxom African-American woman, locals men will push aside local women to open the door for them. Part of that is probably media instituted behavior, but it's also just about "different" women. Captain Kirk liked green women, does that mean he had to subjugate them first? Or were they just "exotic"?

If you want to argue whether Richard Burton (the explorer), by "doing as the Romans do", was in fact contributing to the opporession of Asian women at that time, I can at least see the arguement. But if you want to somehow co-indict white U.S. men who now have a preference for Asian women, you also have to condemn any white man who dates a black women as a "slave raper". After all, the crimes of past people of your same race are a principle reason for the attraction, according to this article.

Did we complain the same when Asian men slobbered over Rachael Welch, or Farrah Fawcett? No, we accepted that as the natural supremacy of caucasian blonds. But heaven forbid the cultural norms change and some other race is exhaulted as the most desired by white males, that can only mean that white males only desire submissive women.

For the record, I have never been romantically involved with any women of Asian descent, and while I find them attractive, no more so than women of other races. I just find this whole "preference = oppression" arguement a little tiresome.

Excellent post.

I'll put it a lot more bluntly and crudely - if I've never seen it before and its pretty - I want to fuck it.

That's about it - that explains the attraction between the races - we're all human, our parts all match and work together - but one's yellow and one's brown and one has red hair and the other is 7ft tall and the other one has a big butt and I don't look like that and I really want to know how it feels to fuck somebody who looks different from me and other people I've fucked.

That's it people. That's "exoticism". Discussion over.

Now, if once you've had the "Other" you decide that this is the bestest of them all and are now content to only fuck this specific type, well that's your choice, but why limit yourself to one flavor when there's so many other delightful choices out in the world?

well, rammy, have you heard of 'marriage'? like 'duh' as the kids say...

For one's potential offspring.

Your remark is right on point regardless of its "crudeness". From a genetic stand point it makes sense to want to "fuck" people of different races. Being a white male of European background it makes sense to mate with an Asian because it is very unlikely that we have common ancestors within say a 50-100 generations, this means that it is more likely that our offspring will have any autosomal recessive traits many of which are fatal or debilitating ie. Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, sickle cell etc. Also, as an immunologist, interbreeding with other races increases the diversity of your major histocompatablity complex (MHC) repertoire which makes one more immunologically fit. There is a theory out there that animals including humans can detect MHC diversity in mates and will actually be more attracted to those that would add to the diversity of their potential offspring (this experiment has been done in rats with varying results). Of course humans have cultural pressures that may override the desire to mate interracially and we had geographical reasons for segregated mating early on. However, history shows us that when those cultural constraints become lessened (ie. early settlers mating with native Americans) those matings happen readily and frequently.

I'm not sure I know what you mean by your "marriage" comment.

I was talking (crudely) about why exotics are attractive in general.

That's a different conversation from what people seek when choosing a long-term partner, spouse or monogamy.

Most of the defensive posts of the men are rooted in history with stereotypical responses from American culture, notably female American culture. To paraphrase the blunt posts by Toria and others, Caucasian men that date Asian women were first turned down by all beautiful Caucasian women. There is no consideration that some handsome, successful Caucasian men prefer Asian women or a particular set of features {slender, dark hair, dark eyes, slight skin} . Perhaps these traits could be identified more reliably in the absence of tanning and hair bleaching fads. Personally, I have a distaste for fake blondes.