Where the general audience is appealed to, ethnic pornography typically fetishises ethnic groups that are familiar in a particular country, such as members of significant minority groups, particularly those seen as most Exotic . They may be seen as sexually unattainable, and therefore mysterious and exciting, or as promiscuous or sexually biddable. (See Orientalism and Asian Fetish ism.) In the wake of the current conflict between the West and the Muslim world, pornography catering for Westerners' curiosity about Muslim women has also appeared.
Ethnic pornography may also serve the audience of that subset of a particular ethnic group who are only interested in looking at people of their own group. For example, there are a number of Jewish pornography websites whose material seems primarily directed at Jews or Asian themed sites that target East Asian Men. There are also pornography websites aimed at the Arab, Indian and Pakistani markets, countries where traditional morals and attitudes toward women make dating difficult or impossible for many young men.
Ethnic pornography also frequently depicts sex acts between people of different ethnicities, commonly known as Interracial Pornography , perhaps for visual contrast, or (particularly in the U.S.) for extra titillation by breaking Taboos regarding the depiction of Ethnic Stereotype s and even the highly sensitive taboo subjects of ethnic tensions and old anti- Miscegenation laws.
Each different market has its own preferences, usually based on its own ethnic tensions and historical links with other ethnic groups. Some of these are:
- Asian (see , Chinese (rarely specific even though there are over fifty distinct Chinese ethnic groups), Korean , Thai , Vietnamese , Malaysian
- European (normally only for a few specific fetishes): French , German , Italian , Russian , Scandinavia n, Turkish (archaic fetish originating from Orientalism )
- --- In American pornography, Germans are often associated with '' play on these stereotypes.
- --- In the 1960s and early 1970s , Scandinavia was frequently depicted as a sort of sexual paradise, a utopia of Free Love . Successful erotic films from Sweden such as '' I Am Curious (Yellow) '' furthered this stereotype.
- North America: Black/African-American , Native American
- Latin American: Mexican , Brazilian , Cuban
- Polynesian: Hawaiian
- Gypsy women are often treated in European literatures as Femme Fatale s, demanding lovers who inspire men to acts of violence. '' Carmen '', especially the opera by Georges Bizet , and Esmerelda from Victor Hugo 's '' The Hunchback Of Notre Dame '' are well known examples of this fetish.
- Indian, Pakistani, Chinese and Thai women (for example '' Asian Babes '' magazine in the UK)
- Jews are frequently depicted as large-breasted and sexually insatiable. The brothel scene from Joris-Karl Huysmans ' '' À Rebours '' ("against the grain") and Aleister Crowley 's poem '' La Juive '' exemplify this fetish.
- Japanese
- African/Black
- Black males and the female members of the most prominent non-European immigrant group in each country; ''Asian girls'' (women of Subcontinental origin) in Britain , ''beurettes'' (women of Maghrebi origin) and ''métisses'' (women of black-white heritage, particularly of Antillean origin) in France , and ''Türkinnen'' (women of Turkish origin) in Germany . It should also be noted that Black women frequently appeared in pornography in 1970s , as central objects of sexual curiousity.
- Western/White (due to a perception that Western women have larger breasts than Japanese women)
- --- Russian/ Slavic
- Asian
- --- Thai, Filipina
- --- Korean (some Japanese women take notice that nearly all men in South Korea have military training and body types common for a Soldier )
- ''New York Press'' [http://www.nypress.com/16/10/news&columns/feature.cfm article on Jewish pornography and Holocaust pornography] by Joshua Cohen
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