# Race and Sexual Attraction Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195 "2012-08-21T19:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/61 "2012-08-22T17:12:36Z")
I’m Asian and I’m attracted to Bears, so that’s pretty much not Asian guys. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/62 "2012-08-22T22:28:53Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > I’m Asian and I’m attracted to Bears, so that’s pretty much not Asian guys. “Bear” – explain? ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/63 "2012-08-22T22:45:49Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > “Bear” – explain? “Bear” means a big hairy guy. > **[Urban Dictionary: bear](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear)** > > bear: A term used by \[gay men\] to describe \[a husky\], large man with a lot of \[body\] hair. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/64 "2012-08-22T23:31:37Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > “Bear” means a big hairy guy. > [Urban Dictionary: bear](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear) I had no idea! Hey, ya learn something new everyday! ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/65 "2012-08-23T00:35:04Z")
I’m a male, and I am attracted to attractive female members of many (if not all) racial groups, including my own. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/66 "2012-08-23T00:47:06Z")
What’s the difference between options 2 and 3? If I’m most attracted to women of other racial groups, I am by definition least attracted to people of my own racial group. And, no, your explanation above didn’t clarify things for me. Anyway, I can’t answer by race. I am mostly not attracted to normal white skin, but love porcelain skin. I am not attracted to ultra black skin. I also am not attracted to the typical black features. But, the thing is, even all these preferences are malleable–other things can make up for it. For instance, I remember a particularly hot ebony model I saw in a commercial, for instance. She was just flat out gorgeous, despite being nearly literally black. (I even wonder if they messed with the color to make her look darker, for greate contrast to the white clothes she was wearing.) But, even if I count that as being less attracted to black people, that’s only one race. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/67 "2012-08-23T01:00:55Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > What’s the difference between options 2 and 3? If I’m most attracted to women of other racial groups, I am by definition least attracted to people of my own racial group. And, no, your explanation above didn’t clarify things for me. Are people missing that it says “members of another racial group or groups”? You could like black chicks the most without liking white ones the least, right? Could be your preferences are black, white, asian, and lastly latina. Anyway, I’m 3/4 white, 1/4th latina. I dig white and latino guys pretty much equally, and black guys can turn my head too but do less often. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/68 "2012-08-27T15:54:39Z")
I’m a black male, but never had a very strong attraction for one particular race over another. If she’s hot, she’s hot! I may tend to lean slightly towards darker skinned women, but my wife is Chinese. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/69 "2012-08-27T16:14:02Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Actually that’s fairly accurate. > > (J/K MOL) I’m changing my answer. I am exclusively attracted to tall white males with thick eyebrows and very short or shaved heads, slight Southern accent a huge plus. 😉 (We need a pervier emoticon than this) > [@Nava](#): > > Black Hispanic, our **MOL**. And in a 0-10 hotness scale she’s about 12 points higher than your negative-value mental images of her :smack: I think Madea’s fairly on point. Cantankerous, old, colored, glasses. Sounds a lot like me. ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/70 "2012-08-27T17:57:25Z")
Physical attraction is to my own race, to the point that I can see a hot man of a different race and appreciate the pretty without feeling a personal attraction. Now, when I have had crushes on those outside my race, there’s a certain aspect of the person reeling me in with his personality. I’m curious as to whether or not physical preferences like this are cultural, psychological, or completely random, but I don’t think there’s any way to get to the bottom of it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/71 "2012-08-27T18:06:15Z")
I’ll be honest, I’m white and just don’t feel any physical attraction to girls of other races. I can recognize that they may have beautiful features and nice figures, but I just don’t think of them sexually. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/72 "2012-08-27T18:09:57Z")
I’ve been thinking about this and I don’t think it really matters one way or the other to me. There’s plenty of attractive women to be found from any corner of the planet. I’m not going to say that looks don’t play a huge part in attractiveness, they do, but personality, intelligence and humour also play a large part. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/73 "2012-08-27T18:24:33Z")
I’m a white guy and what I’d like to vote is that race pretty much doesn’t matter to me. I’ve dated women of many different races. Sure, there are some features I like that are more prominent in one race than another, but the funny thing is, no particular race generally has all of them. If anything, I have the greatest preference for women who are either bi-racial themselves, or from areas where there’s historically been all kinds of mixing. It’s precisely that sort of thing that seems to bring together the certain attributes that uncommonly coincide to be in the same woman. So, I’m not really sure if that would count as being more attracted to other races or my own. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/74 "2012-08-27T19:09:14Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’ll be honest, I’m white and just don’t feel any physical attraction to girls of other races. I can recognize that they may have beautiful features and nice figures, but I just don’t think of them sexually. I was thinking something similar. I can see that guys of many races are good looking, but I don’t feel a sexual attraction to many of them. Same with women in general, I find many of them stunningly beautiful but for me there is no sexual component at all. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/75 "2012-08-28T04:15:43Z")
I’m a WASP and I’m generally much more sexually attracted to dark-haired, olive-to-ebony-skinned men (of all ethnic groups) than I am to people who look more like me. My previous relationships fell within this, but my very attractive new-ish boyfriend has the exact same coloring as me (light but easily tanned skin, blue eyes, lightish brownish hair), so clearly I can be flexible. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/76 "2012-08-28T05:05:12Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > ETA: I know some guys who were attracted to that blue thing in Avatar. I draw the line at the species, thanks. No blue tails. I hadn’t considered that (and didn’t watch the movie, either). I always wished we would have a tail (seems both fun and convenient) and hate Darwin for making us lose it. I also always wished we would come in more colours (skin, hair, eyes). So I could be sold on an Avatarian girl. Apart from that, as a white male, I tend to be more attracted to white women. Being European, Latinas are included in the general “white” category (they would need to have clearly Amerindian or Black features no to be). Mostly, to me, so are Middle-Eastern, Central Asian, etc… So, white in the broadest sense of the word, from Stockholm to Teheran to Santiago. ---
**Author:** ![truthSeeker2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@truthSeeker2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthSeeker2)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/77 "2012-08-28T08:12:57Z")
I like females who are jovial, sincere, nice and helpful for others. These qualities attract me so much that if she has average looks and body, I dont even look beyond these qualities. I find Persian, Latin, Indian\Pakistani women slightly more attractive in looks…And all women are attractive ofcourse. I am a male from India. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/78 "2012-08-28T09:24:39Z")
No particular preference at all. At work there are several women I find sexually attractive and they are from all over the planet. Two women in particular I see but haven’t ever spoken to I wouldn’t hazard a guess which Asian country they are from. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/79 "2012-08-28T10:10:34Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Hell you want strange I don’t think I’ve ever been attracted intensely to a natural blonde, neither asian women really. > > White male here. I am curious, do you tend to date women a few years older than you? I’ll tell you why I asked after you reply ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195/80 "2012-08-28T10:11:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Zoe Saldana? [Hot](http://images.tvrage.com/people_galleries/12/34376/72156.jpg) What’s the polite way to say this? I’ll be in my bu… 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-and-sexual-attraction-poll/632195.md?page=5)