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Asian fetish denotes a sexual attraction favoring Asian people for their race and perceptions of their culture.

Phoebe Eng has argued that not all Asians feel that Asian fetish is bad, since it has given new sexual visibility and liberation to an otherwise invisible and disadvantaged minority.

Stereotyping of Asian personality traits

In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever," discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women. Hwang argues that this phenomenon is caused by stereotyping of Asians in Western society.

Media Studies

In 2002, Jennifer Lynn Gossett and Sarah Byrne conducted a content-analysis study of 31 pornographic Web sites that advertised scenes depicting the rape or torture of women, and found that nearly half of the sites used depictions of Asian women as the rape victim.

Pathological behavior towards Asian women

Michael J. Lohman targeted Asian women in a spree that is suspected to have lasted from 2002 until Lohman was arrested March 30,2005. Lohman, cut and took locks of hair from about nine Asian female University students without their knowledge or consent and poured his own bodily fluids into the drinks of Asian female students more than 50 times, according to police reports. The fluids poured into the drinks were semen and urine. Lohman confessed to cutting the hair of Asian female students at least eight times.

During a search of Lohman's home police found containers filled with urine, as well as stolen underwear and gloves that were stuffed with human hair all being used for sexual self-gratification.

Controversy

Bloodhound Gang an American alternative band, wrote and performed a song entiltled "Yellow Fever", which caused controversy within the Asian-American community.

Asian preferences in dating

"Racial Preferences in Dating", a study published in the Review of Economic Studies, found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women in dating. The study found East Asian women, who generally prefer East Asian men, do not discriminate against white men, but often discriminate against black and Hispanic men. As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating found.

References

  1. Prasso, Sheridan (2005). "'Race-ism,' Fetish, and Fever". The Asian Mystique. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. pp. 132–164, 141. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors=, |chapterl=, and |month= (help)
  2. Eng, Phoebe (2000). "She Takes Back Desire". Warrior Lessons : An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power. New York: Atria. pp. 115–142.
  3. Hwang, David Henry (1988). "Afterward". M. Butterfly. New York: Plume Books. pp. p. 98. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  4. Gender & Society, Vol. 16, No. 5, 689-709 (2002) DOI: 10.1177/089124302236992 © 2002 Sociologists for Women in Society
  5. Associated Press April 5, 2005 "Princeton Grad Student Accused Of Lewd Behavior Toward Women";
  6. Sethi, Chanakya, The Daily Princetonian, "Mathematics student admits to about 60 incidents of lewd behavior toward Asian females on campus " 2005. April 6, 2005
  7. Lee, Tom. AsianWeek "Bloodhound Gang Draws fans and Protestors to Fillmore" June 1, 2000
  8. Fisman, Raymond. "An Economist Goes to a BarSlate magazine (2007-11-07). Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
  9. Fisman,Raymond; Iyengar, Sheena S.; Kamenica, Emir; Simonson, Itamar. "Racial Preferences in Dating". 2007-05-11. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.

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