Let me say a quick thanks to Antonio, Robin, and my old friend the Bitca for their recent comments.
Next, let me introduce the subject of today’s post: sex.
Yes… sex… sex… sex.
Sorry, I was just trying to drive up the site’s traffic.
However, the topic is relevant, in light of a recent study that looked at everybody’s favorite pastime (i.e., getting’ it on) and filtered it through a racial prism.
October 14th, 2010 on 12:07 pm
This analysis lines up with a study that appeared in Freakonomics, in which the authors looked at white people on a dating website who said that, when choosing a potential mate, race didn’t matter. These individuals still sent at least 90 percent of their queries to other white people.
This lines up with all that “color-blind” talk. People would like to think they are color-blind, but of course, no one is. They say they would date interracially, but they select only same race. That what we say and what we aren’t always in agreement will shock no one.
What I would have liked to see in this study is the addition of social class. I would guess that women rank social class as more important than race in selecting a potential mate, but I could be wrong…and for men, I have no idea whether race or social class would trump.
October 14th, 2010 on 12:08 pm
Terrible typo: that what we say and what we DO aren’t always in agreement will shock no one.
Apologies.