Black women are constantly hypersexualised – it’s time to stop fetishising skin colour
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Historically, black women’s bodies are fair game.
By Natalie Morris
We are hypersexualised from an alarmingly young age and there is a collective tendency to dissect us into nothing more than body parts and sexual acts.
From music videos to movies to images of celebrities – the mainstream media perpetuates this obsession with the black, female form – at the expense of acknowledging us as human beings with brains and hearts and opinions, as well as tits and ass.
Despite being the least successful group on dating apps, black women are widely desired on the basis of archaic, offensive sexual stereotypes.
It’s a form of sexual racism, and it needs to stop.
Fetishisation means to form an obsessive, sexual connection based on a particular feature or item – and racial fetishism is where that connection is based on person’s race or ethnic group.
You know what the stereotypes are. That black women are ‘wild’ in bed, aggressively dominant sexually, promiscuous, always up for it.
They are...
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