WHAT MAKES OTHER CULTURES ATTRACTED TO THE BLACK WOMAN?
A club; few nights back; as my friend and I rested our backs against the bar, our attention was instantly caught by two dark-skinned girls as they sauntered towards the DJ booth. My friend and I were identical in our drooling expression; but our difference lay in skin colour; I’ m black; he’ s white. This moment-of-attraction was instantly recalled when asked to discuss why other races find black women attractive. I recall thinking the exact same question as I noticed the lust of my friend towards these chocolate beauties. As a non-black, what made him desire these girls? The fixation of the world on the black man is so large at times that it’ s easy to forget that the black woman is equally desired by those other than her own race. I believe this attraction surmounts to the following:
Firstly, the black woman is desired as an exotic creature; her beauty is beguiling. She is the other; the phrase‘ opposites attract’ instantly comes to mind. Just like white male photographer in Wole Soyinka’ s play‘ The Lion and the Jewel’, other races see the black woman as a mystical creature that they want to capture; both artistically and sexually.
The black woman is seen as a creature that other races even feel sometimes too inferior to approach. I remember later discussing those two black girls with my friend; and after telling him to go chat with them, he told me that they would never be into a‘ skinny white boy’ and that they would judge his appendage against the endowments of their male counterparts.