I Am Curious

Almost every time I come onto SW I receive an inbox message from a stranger asking about my dark skin tone. Okay! Now I find myself baffled, are we still stuck in the stone ages where seeing a dark skinned person starts feels like you've just bumped into an alien?

Yes, there are Indian people that are darker in skin tone and no they are not always from India.

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AvGeek · 31-35, M

Jumbo - I personally do not geel that being physically attracted to women of a particular type ethnic or so-called race is "fetishizing" them. If you're physically attracted to certain physical features, looks etc., of a particular type and find them beautiful of handsome or wherever the case may be - what are you supposed to do, pretend like you're not? Act like you don't notice? Often physical attraction is the initial attraction. Doesn't mean you won't find more non-physical things attractive about a person once you meet and get to know them.

"Fetishized"? So one "makes a fetish" of a particular type, or look or features etc, of a person because they see them as physically attractive, pleasing, beautiful?

I don't think that's what you're doing by being physically attracted to Indian or any other specific ethnic, or so-called race, or type of women. But that's just me and my opinion.

I think these words get misused/abused often in our society these days.

Fetishize:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetishize

Fetish:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetish

Sorry Jimbo - this really isn't towards you personally or anyone on this thread. Nor am I saying that women are not sexualized. But I get a lot of this "fetish" crap because I like Asian and other ethnic and so-called races of women of color. I call bull s--t.

I apologize to all and will post this rant separately as a question/story/topic whatever. I'll probably delete this from this thread later, also.