Basic Trope: Character expresses sexual attraction to people of a certain group.
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Race Fetish
- Straight: Alice is a white woman who finds black men more sexually attractive than other races.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has a very specific fetish for young, Black and Nerdy men who major in Criminal Justice and like the color blue.
- Alice finds every race of men irresistibly sexy except for white men.
- Every character in the setting has a lust for someone who is not of their racial background.
- Alice is exclusively attracted to black men
- Downplayed: Alice acknowledges what she finds in black people to be attractive in comparison to other races, but keeps a cool head otherwise
- Justified:
- Alice has grown up in a black community, naturally she's fixated on the race of men she's familiar with.
- Alice is only attracted to the category of man that the black men she knows happen to fit.
- Inverted:
- Alice finds black men repulsive.
- Alice will only ever date or have sex with other white men.
- Black men, for some reason, find Alice sexier than usual.
- Subverted: Alice has had sex with mostly black men, but she believes True Beauty Is on the Inside and simply found them funny or reliable.
- Double Subverted: ... After dating her first white guy, she finds that she prefers black men.
- Parodied: Alice swoons every time she sees a black man.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice has a love life uninfluenced by the race of her lovers.
- Enforced: "We need to promote interracial relationships".
- Lampshaded: "Alice seems a bit obsessed with black dudes, Not That There's Anything Wrong with That."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A black thug takes advantage of Alice's fetish to rob her in her sleep.
- Defied:
- Racist laws are put in place to outlaw interracial relationships.
- Alice, to avoid backlash from others, tries not to be attracted to ethnic features of any race.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Don't mean to be racist, but this type of fetish shouldn't be healthy."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice decides to marry a black man. Over time, her initial happiness high is slowly replaced with Angst as it becomes clear she and her husband are not at all compatible with each other and her marriage is subsequently a miserable one.
- Alice's fetishization of black men is shown to be just as dehumanizing of them as any other form of racism and bigotry, especially since those fetishes are based on other racist stereotypes such as Black Is Bigger in Bed.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice and her husband get marriage counseling and learn to live happily together. With this, their relationship improves.
- Alice learns to treat black men as individuals rather than as a monolith, and when she gets together with one, it's a guy who is genuinely compatible with her personality-wise.
- Played For Laughs: Alice follows a young black man from college to his home, trying to hook up with him, but she is caught by his mother who promptly beats the shit out of her.
- Played For Drama: Alice is only attracted to black men because of certain... assets, and views them as sex objects as opposed to real people. As a result, when those guys inevitably fail to live up to her expectations and she breaks up with them, leaving every one of them sad and heartbroken, garnering deserved criticism from other people over this.
- Played For Horror: ???
Species Fetish
- Straight: Bob is a human who finds Forest Elves irresistible.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob finds every human-like species irresistible except for humans themselves.
- Every character in the setting has a lust for members of any species but their own.
- Bob is exclusively attracted to Forest Elves.
- Downplayed: Bob acknowledges what makes elves attractive in comparison to humans, but can control himself.
- Justified: Forest Elves are just that hot.
- Inverted:
- Bob finds elves very repulsive.
- Most elves finds Bob in particular attractive.
- Bob will only ever approach other humans, preferably women of his own race.
- Subverted: Bob gets lucky and sleeps with an elf. While he enjoyed the experience, he still prefers being around humans.
- Double Subverted: ... On his next date, that elf makes it her mission to turn Bob into an elf lover.
- Parodied: Bob and his friends are walking down an alleyway, and an elven woman walk by, and they all Wolf Whistle.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob has a love life uninfluenced by the species of his lovers.
- Enforced: "We need to promote interspecies relationships".
- Lampshaded: "So does Bob even hang out with people, or are long ears just his thing?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: An elf assassin masquerades herself as a prostitute to get close to Bob
- Defied: Laws are passed to outlaw relationships between individuals who are not the same species.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob marries an elf. They have a son who's a cross between their species. Bob feels Angst over his Awful Wedded Life with the fact that his son is entirely different from him, he and his family being harassed, and he chose his life partner, an elf, simply to suit a teenage fetish as opposed to looking for someone that he'd be able to live with.
- Reconstructed: Taking advice from his wife, his own friends, and her friends, Bob becomes more optimistic. He has a wife who loves him and is willing to suffer with him, he has a beautiful and unique son, and while the world may hate it he and his wife stand as a symbol that humans and elves can live happily together. In accepting this, Bob’s sex life also improves.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob tries to hit on an elf in a nightclub, but her boyfriend looms over him and he leaves in fear. Turns out elves are freakishly large compared to humans.
- Played For Drama: Bob only cares about elves because how attractive he finds them, viewing them is mere sex objects as opposed to living beings, leaving many elves heartbroken, alone, and pregnant.
- Played For Horror: In his escapades, Bob ends up infecting himself and his lover with a nightmarish STD, involving bodily decay, that kills both of them slowly and horribly.
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