History Main / RaceFetish

* [[HateSink Woden]] of ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' has a troupe of thirteen Valkyries who are all over 5' 9[=''=] and East Asian. [[CastingCouch And yes, sleeping with him is a part of the job description]]. He's repeatedly called out for being grossly racist and misogynist, particularly by Cass, who is ''also'' tall and Japanese and knows damn well [[LustObject how he feels about her]]. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that he's the white academic David Blake whose ex-wife was Asian.]]

* [[HateSink Woden]] of ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' has a troupe of thirteen Valkyries who are all over 5' 9[=''=] and East Asian. [[CastingCouch And yes, sleeping with him is a part of the job description]]. He's repeatedly called out for being grossly racist and misogynist, particularly by Cass, who is ''also'' tall and Japanese and knows damn well [[TransgenderFetishization how he feels]] [[LustObject about her]]. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that he's the white academic David Blake whose ex-wife was Asian.]]

* In ''Webcomic/SingleAsianFemale'', it's theoretically impossible for a white man to be attracted to an Asian woman as anything more than a fetish object. Because all white men are creepy jerks, and it's time the Asian women realize that [[EntitledToHaveYou the Asian men deserve to have them]]. (Yep: While the in-universe narrator was a female Asian, the author was a male Asian - and a quite bitter one at that.) He didn't just stop there either, even going so far as to claim that white men who date Asian women are pedophiles.

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* In George C. Wolfe's play ''TheColoredMuseum'', Miss Roj mentions that gay bar "The Bottomless Pit" does not just cater to black men, there are also "The dinge queens, white men who like their chicken legs dark".
* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' often used the song "Black Boys/White Boys" in the same way as the film version.
* Implied with Penny in ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'', specifically the line "But now I've tasted chocolate and I'm never going back!" in reference to her new (black) boyfriend Seaweed. Given the setting of the show, it was likely meant more as a protest statement against her very racist mother than a specific declaration of fetish, but still.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': The [[TheBeautifulElite asari]], an alien race of [[OneGenderRace female humanoid]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue-Skinned Space Babies]] are considered highly desirable to all species, from humans to the near asexual and only vaguely humanoid salarians. Asari are so desirable there are countless strip joints and brothels across space with asari dancers and prostitutes as their main attraction. It gets a lampshade in the second game when three buddies of different species are watching an asari dancer, and all of them think it makes perfect sense for their own race to find them attractive but are mystified that the other two do. In the third game, Javik reveals that even protheans were attracted to and had sex with asari. To put this in perspective, the other top species of the present were hunted, eaten, studied, or simply ignored; but the asari alone were worth having sex with. Then again, its [[{{Troll}} Javik]], so who knows how serious he is.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Female Twi'leks, combined with SlaveRace.

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* In ''Single Asian Female'', it's theoretically impossible for a white man to be attracted to an Asian woman as anything more than a fetish object. Because all white men are creepy jerks, and it's time the Asian women realize that [[EntitledToHaveYou the Asian men deserve to have them]]. (Yep: While the in-universe narrator was a female Asian, the author was a male Asian - and a quite bitter one at that.) He didn't just stop there either, even going so far as to claim that white men who date Asian women are pedophiles.

* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': Orrig the orc mercenary isn't thrilled about orcs becoming popular fodder for InUniverse {{Romance Novel}}s like ''[[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/815 My Green Chieftain.]]''

* Referenced in one of ''WebVideo/SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition'''s bizarre intermissions, where [[FunWithSubtitles the subtitles]] translate a rapper's jive as, "Sometimes I wonder if it's possible for a black man to have a fetish for black chicks."

* In ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Randall is interested in Asian Chicks, though when through some wacky circumstance he has several {{Geisha}}s eager to do his bidding, he sends them out for porn featuring Asian women. Like every woman he's dated in the past, they become lesbians by the end of the episode. The previous episode showed the time he accidentally ordered a Japanese mail-order ''husband'' by mistake, but the closing montage of that particular story showed that he kind of enjoyed it anyway. Apparently, Asian is more important than chick.
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a nightclub singer named Gulliver Dark performing in one of the most popular burlesque houses in Springfield. He sings "I could love a million girls/And every girl a twin./I could love a Chinese girl/An Eskimo - " which is as far as he gets before the act is [[HilarityEnsues comedically interrupted]] (by Homer, of course). After he gets Homer to join him on stage, they sing the rest of the song: "...An Eskimo or Finn./I could dig a Deutschland chick/A girl with golden curls./In fact I think that we could love.../About a million girls!" The showgirls dancing with Gulliver are almost all white (which, this being ''The Simpsons'', means they have [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation yellow skin]]), but [[CultureEqualsCostume they dress in "ethnic" costumes depicting whichever culture he would sing about]].

* ''{{Manga/Gate}}'' has the main cast stay at a manor where all the maids are different types of LittleBitBeastly. Naturally, two of the squad being {{Otaku}} to some degree, they couldn't be happier. However, the head maid explains that this wasn't due to any enlightened attitudes on the part of the former owner, he just liked the idea of being surrounded by attractive women of multiple species.

* The 1967 comic-book story "Cold Steel For a Hot War!" follows the adventures of Captain Hunter, a Green Beret who is searching the jungles of Vietnam for his paratrooper twin brother, who's been shot down in enemy territory. His guide on this quest is a young South Vietnamese woman who may or may not be a VC double agent; Hunter knows this, and yet he cannot repress his feelings of lust for her, repeatedly referring to her (in the inner-monologue narration) as "an Oriental kewpie doll." Finally determined to get some answers, he unexpectedly grabs the woman and demands that she reveal her true motives before pulling her close to kiss him in a relatively nonviolent SlapSlapKiss moment - whereupon two VC guerrillas leap down from a tree to attack them both (the woman is not a traitor after all) and one of them mocks Hunter's foolishness with "Yankee shouldn't mix war with pleasure; it make him very dead!"

* Briar Raleigh from the Marvel universe has a mutant fetish. She is not herself a mutant. Her favorites seem to be magnetic powers and healing factors.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shortcomings}}'': PlayedForDrama. Miko and Ben are a Japanese-American couple. Miko knows Ben has a thing for white women, and is immediately suspicious of his new white coworker. She's upset when she finds his lesbian porn stash and all the women in it are white. She accuses him of settling for her when what he really wants is the Western beauty standard.

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* In ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'', the main character offhandedly remarks that he thinks Asian girls are beautiful, leading his daughter to believe that ''only'' Asian girls are beautiful.

* ''Film/JungleFever'' explores an interracial relationship between a black man and a white woman based on racial sexual fetishes. Another interracial relationship, where the couple sees each other as people first, is offered as a counterpoint.

* Deconstructed in ''Film/GetOut2017''; The Armitage Family and the local community's obsession with the athletic superiority of black people and their bodies leads to [[spoiler:GrandTheftMe schemes because they believe that they're better than white people at various activities]]. This only serves to highlight the insanity and racism the community holds.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' with a little girl who likes her coffee black -- like her men.
* In another case of it being PlayedForLaughs, ''Film/BadGrandpa'' has Irving ask for a local strip club, specifically with black women at it. He mentions he’s especially fond of them to the point where, at least according to him, his old nickname was “Jizzy Gillespie”.
* ''Film/DeepCover'': David wonders aloud why he likes having sex with black women so much; Russell says it's actually a slave fetish.

* In Creator/TomSharpe's farce of South Africa in UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, (''Literature/RiotousAssembly'') white policemen consider sexually assaulting black female prisoners a rare perk in an underpaid job. Kommandant van Heerden himself is not averse - but when he feels the need, he takes it over the border to brothels in Portuguese Mozambique, which isn't breaking any South African racial separation law. Liutnant Verkramp, his resident secret policeman, duly keeps a file on his boss to bring out when the time is right.

* In ''Literature/TheSorceresssOrc'', many human women are curious about male orcs, and some orcs find humans exotic. [[spoiler: Vervain, however, was never attracted to brawny men before she met Riyu.]]
* The Dutch novel and TheFilmOfTheBook ''Alleen Maar Nette Mensen'' ("Only Decent People") is all about the subject, when a young man from a well-off Jewish family in Amsterdam (who is noted to be AmbiguouslyBrown, often being mistaken for Moroccan) breaks up with his current (white) girlfriend because he's far more attracted to incredibly curvy black women and starts to frequent the local ghetto neighborhoods in search of them. The trope is also [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], since this leads [[MalignedMixedMarriage his parents to disown him]], and his sexual fetishism causes his black girlfriend Rowanda to accuse him of being a "Speculaas" (literally a type of sweet, but the slang term basically means someone who's PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy) and picking up all sorts of bad behaviors from the men he hangs out with. They break off their relationship, but it's implied that he HookedUpAfterwards with [[{{Reconstruction}} a different black girl who's a better fit for him personality-wise]].
* ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells: The bio-engineered krismen are unusual in human cities and are considered desirably exotic despite FantasticRacism against them, particularly the males.[[labelnote:*]](The immunity to disease and inability to get a human woman pregnant are bonuses.)[[/labelnote]] Khat gets propositioned a lot by random strangers and once distracts [[spoiler:the Heir]] from questioning him by letting her sleep with him, but notes that, before [[spoiler:Elen]], none of them had cared about him as a person.

* This is how the Menagerie (also known as the House of Exotics), a pleasure house, works in ''Literature/SixOfCrows''. Each girl working there comes from a different country, and is dressed up like and referred to as an animal from that country. There's a Fjerdan wolf (tall, blonde), a Kaelish mare (red-haired), a Zemeni fawn (large dark eyes), and more. Including the Suli lynx (brown skin) that Inej was forced to act as after being bought by Tante Heleen. Each girl is treated rather horribly and is usually not referred to by name.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', "The Chinese Woman." Jerry dials a wrong number and gets a woman named Donna Chang. He apologizes and hangs up.
-->'''Jerry:''' ''redialing'' Should've talked to her; I love Chinese women.\\
'''Elaine:''' Isn't that a little racist?\\
'''Jerry:''' If I ''like'' their race, how can that be racist?
** Though it turns out [[spoiler: she's not Chinese.]]

* Charlie Sheen's character on ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' occasionally displayed a fondness for Asian hookers, though by no means exclusively. (One ImagineSpot depicting his funeral shows mostly white women - and at least one [[TokenMinority token black]] one - in the church wearing short black dresses. They spit on his corpse, and the saliva is said to lessen the pain of all the pitchfork stabbings his soul is receiving in Hell.)

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Joy thought her father would give her hell for her marriage to Darnell, because of the way he approached her dating a black guy in high school. It turns out, the young man was [[spoiler: Joy's half-brother; Mr. Darville cheated on his wife multiple times with several different black women. Joy also has at least one other half-sister named Liberty, who is on Earl's list.]]
* On ''Series/MadTV'', there is a reoccurring skit about an interracial couple who host a call-in show called ''Inside Looking Out'', where they give tips on interracial relationships. The white wife is an unabashed bigot who makes derogatory remarks about her black husband (including stating she'd attacked him before because she thought he was a burglar), while the husband ignores the degradation since he enjoys sleeping with a white woman.

* There's a possible FantasticRacism example in the 1983 ''Series/SesameStreet'' TV movie ''Big Bird in China''. Big Bird is in Chinatown one day when he catches sight of a painting of a beautiful yellow bird in a shop and is instantly taken with it. The shop's owner tells him that it is ''Huang Feng'', the Chinese phoenix, and that she can only be found after those who seek her come to China and solve four strange riddles that will eventually reveal the Phoenix's location. Immediately, Big Bird feels a strong desire to go to China and tell the Phoenix how much he admires her culture, even though he knows next to nothing about the Chinese and never displayed an interest in them either. It's hard not to reach the conclusion that Big Bird is romantically infatuated with ''Huang Feng'' and seeks her for a mate. In any case, when Big Bird finally finds the Phoenix at the end of the movie, he finds that she's not a bird at all, but [[spoiler: a Chinese goddess who teaches foreigners about China]].
* During a FreudianSlip, Phil from ''Series/ModernFamily'' accidentally makes it known that he has a serious thing for black women.
-->'''Phil''': I'll admit it, I'm turned on by powerful women. Michelle Obama, Oprah, Condoleeza Rice, Serena Williams...[[DelayedReaction wait a minute]].
* Implied in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Good Girl". A young black man is stabbed to death and the defendant claims that she did so after he raped her and tried to assault her again. The investigation reveals that the two had actually been dating. She concocted the story so that her bigoted father wouldn't find out about their relationship--several years ago, he broke her arm because she was dating ''another'' black guy.
* ''Series/TheNightOf'': Attorney John Stone clearly favors black women. His ex-wife is black, and he's trying to start a romantic relationship with a black prostitute he sees regularly. When he mentions "young urban women" in regards to a court case, his legal partner notes how "well-spoken" that term is.
* On ''Series/ChewingGum'', Tracey briefly dates a guy who claims he's never dated a black woman before, and seems to have a fetish for them. This culminates in her dressing up and doing faux-African dances for him, until his black ex-wife walks in and implies that this isn't the first time he's done this.
* ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder'' introduces a new, African-American character, Gabriel Maddox, at the end of the fourth season with the immediate implication that the viewers already know at least one of his parents. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that Gabriel is indeed a Keating--but ''not'' a Harkness. Rather, Annalise's husband Sam (who is white) was married previously and fathered Gabriel with his first wife.]]
* ''Series/RayDonovan'': The title character's father has a strong preference for black women, even telling a white woman(Creator/RosannaArquette!) "I'm surprised I could fuck you. You're not exactly my type."
* ''Series/TheSexLivesOfCollegeGirls'': In "[[Recap/TheSexLivesOfCollegeGirlsS1E1WelcomeToEssex Welcome to Essex]]" Whitney thinks her white secret lover Dalton has a fetish for black women due to him complimenting the color of her skin. He admits he's attracted to black women more than other races.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderOrganizedCrime'': Richard's wife is Black, as was his ex-wife, and dialogue implies that he's mostly or only attracted to Black women.
* On ''Series/HowIMetYourFather'' the Indian-American Sid jokes that his fiancee must have a thing for South Asian guys when he remembers Creator/KumailNanjiani is her celebrity crush.
* On ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Martin once shows a preference for Asian women because they remind him of girls he dated during the Korean War. Daphne, Frasier, and Niles are all pretty weirded out by it.
-->'''Daphne:''' This explains that so-called "mix up" at the video store. "Mistake" my fanny, you ordered ''Film/TheJoyLuckClub''!

* "Black Girls" by the Music/ViolentFemmes.
* Music/TheRollingStonesBand' "Some Girls" compares attributes of women from various races and nationalities. Subverted somewhat in that not all of them are deemed positive or attractive. They also wrote the songs "Brown Sugar" (about slave rape) and "Little Negrita".
* [[Music/{{Weezer}} "Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls do it to me every time...]]
* Referenced in a very dark manner in the Music/{{Radiohead}} song "Pearly*," which is about "dirty people who use sex for dirty things."
* Stephen Lynch, a white man, has a song called "Vanilla Ice Cream" which is, oddly enough, about his preference for dark-skinned women.
-->"Oh, I hate vanilla ice cream, I like chocolate instead"

* In ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'', Tracy's best friend Penny falls in love with black dancer Seaweed and proudly states that she's never going back to white men.

* In 2005's ''Comedians of Comedy'', Brian Posehn wished that someday America's relationship with Iraq would be like our current one with Japan. "We find their old people adorable, they have restaurants in the cool part of town, you have a Scott who only fucks Iraqi girls."

* In ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', Tracy's best friend Penny falls in love with black dancer Seaweed and proudly states that she's never going back to white men.
-->Penny: "In my Ivory Tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, I'm NEVER GOING BACK!"

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Surprisingly, ''[[HornedHumanoid Qunari]]'' are depicted as the most attractive race this time around. [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Iron Bull]] is treated as the most unequivocally attractive party member, due to his [[BiggerIsBetterInBed size]], [[RatedMForManly muscles]], and [[HornedHumanoid horns]]. Elven companion [[GayOption Sera]] also has a ''serious'' thing for Qunari women; frequently getting DistractedByTheSexy if a female Inquisitor is Qunari, and [[spoiler:when many female Qunari assassins attack in the Trespasser DLC]]. Sera also has a thing for Dwarf women, although it's not as overt.

* The blood members of the Boreas Family from ''LightNovel/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' seem to have a thing for [[LittleBitBeastly beast people]]. Eris' grandfather has their household staffed exclusively by them for this reason, [[spoiler:and Eris in her adult years takes two of them as her lovers]].

* The 1967 comic-book story [[ExcitedShowTitle "Cold Steel For a Hot War!"]] follows the adventures of Captain Hunter, a Green Beret who is searching the jungles of Vietnam for his paratrooper twin brother, who's been shot down in enemy territory. His guide on this quest is a young South Vietnamese woman who may or may not be a VC double agent; Hunter knows this, and yet he cannot repress his feelings of lust for her, repeatedly referring to her (in the inner-monologue narration) as "an Oriental kewpie doll." Finally determined to get some answers, he unexpectedly grabs the woman and demands that she reveal her true motives before pulling her close to kiss him in a relatively nonviolent SlapSlapKiss moment - whereupon two VC guerrillas leap down from a tree to attack them both (the woman is not a traitor after all) and one of them mocks Hunter's foolishness with "Yankee shouldn't mix war with pleasure; it make him very dead!"

* MatzoFever (Gentiles for Jews)

*** [[{{Elfeminate}} Zevran]], the player's [[TokenMinority token elven companion]], frequently invokes this. He states that the [[MurderInc Antivan Crows]] often recruit elves like him because humans find them attractive, making it easier to lure them into a HoneyTrap and invoke DeathBySex. He also frequently lists being "elven and handsome" regarding his desirability as a sex partner. The player character can even gain ''approval'' by saying, "There's always a use or two for a handsome elf" as a flirt option.

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Surprisingly, ''[[HornedHumanoid Qunari]]'' are depicted as the most attractive race this time around. [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Iron Bull]] is treated as the most unequivocally attractive party member, due to his [[BiggerIsBetterInBed size]], [[RatedMForManly muscles]], and [[HornedHumanoid horns]]. Elven companion [[GayOption Sera]] also has a ''serious'' thing for [[AmazonianBeauty Qunari women]]; frequently getting DistractedByTheSexy if a female Inquisitor is Qunari, and [[spoiler:when many female Qunari assassins attack in the Trespasser DLC]]. Sera also has a thing for Dwarf women, although it's not as overt.

Unfortunately, this tendency does not necessarily make someone antiracist. It is not uncommon for an [[BigotWithACrush outward bigot]] to have secret sexual relations with people of the target race, consensually or otherwise. And if the women of that race are stereotyped as ''always'' being lust-inspiring and a man hates them for precisely that reason, while still seeking them out behind closed doors, that might be SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. Even if the person isn't outwardly hateful, they might still have ''sex'' with members of that race but would never [[ParentalMarriageVeto bring one home to Mom and Dad]].

* ''Jill: Part-time Lover'' has [[UnproblematicProstitution the title character]] outright state a preference for Black men based on confidence and style (''every'' guy is [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well-endowed]] in this world so it's not [[BlackIsBiggerInBed that]] trope) to the extent she gives her real name and number instead of it being "business" with the book's last encounter being [[RuleOfThree three]] of them, which ''would'' normally qualify as WhereDaWhiteWomenAt except Jill's an AmbiguouslyBrown DarkskinnedRedhead.

* In one ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' storyline, Sarah (white woman) is upset when she finds out that her husband Tom (black man) [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt only ever dated other white women]]. He eventually argues back by listing all of ''her'' ex-boyfriends, all of whom have generally black names (one was apparently kicked out of the [[AngryBlackMan Nation of]] [[MalcolmXerox Islam]] for dating her).

Unfortunately, this tendency does not necessarily make someone antiracist. It is not uncommon for an [[BigotWithACrush outward bigot]] to have secret sexual relations with people of the target race, consensually or otherwise. And if the women of that race are stereotyped as ''always'' being lust-inspiring and a man hates them for precisely that reason, while still seeking them out behind closed doors, that might be SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. Even if the person isn't outwardly hateful, they might still have ''sex'' with members of that race but would never bring one home to [[ParentalMarriageVeto Mom and Dad]].

Unfortunately, this tendency does not necessarily make someone antiracist. It is not uncommon for an [[BigotWithACrush outward bigot]] to have secret sexual relations with people of the target race, consensually or otherwise. And if the women of that race are stereotyped as ''always'' being lust-inspiring and a man hates them for precisely that reason, while still seeking them out behind closed doors, that might be SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. Or even if the person isn't outwardly hateful, they might still have ''sex'' with members of that race but would never bring one home to [[ParentalMarriageVeto Mom and Dad]].

A character HasAType that involves people of a specific ethnic group. This group can be as wide as entire races, or as narrow as a local tribe or country. As long as the division is based on geography, ethnicity, or race rather than individual qualities. A classic example is when a Westerner is attracted to an Asian person for being "exotic," or a white person being attracted to black men for...[[BlackIsBiggerInBed other reasons]]. This viewpoint is sometimes built into the narrative itself, especially in older works and/or pornography. In modern works (outside of porn), this has a chance of backfiring if the paramour disapproves of being objectified in such a manner.

* Music/TheRollingStones' "Some Girls" compares attributes of women from various races and nationalities. Subverted somewhat in that not all of them are deemed positive or attractive. They also wrote the songs "Brown Sugar" (about slave rape) and "Little Negrita".