"Pr0n is a widely consumed product; its popularity is not limited to special-interest sub-cultures so the persistence of this 'taboo' theme suggests the endurance of sexualized racialist notions about 'mixed-race' relationships in the minds of a large percentage of the population."
Fascinating thesis. It would have never occurred to me. Thanks, Doug.
In 1974, I was married to an African-American/Black man. (We met at UCLA, working on the campus literary mag.) After we married, I found out that it was impossible to rent an apartment if we both went looking together. I also found out that a lot of very, very respectable white women were curious about black male sexuality: they often asked me in the sanctity of their Family Circle homes whether black men were "really bigger and better...."
That wasn't so long ago.
Joanna