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.
It’s dangerous, not to mention intellectually dishonest, to insist that any racial or ethnic group has specific likes or dislikes. After all, in today’s multiracial society, it’s often debatable who is or isn’t a member of a certain group. And let’s not forget that such assertions, even well-meaning ones, open up the door to stereotyping.
But like most dangerous and/or offensive things, it’s also a lot of fun to do.
Recently, the good people at OK Trends did a little analysis on people who joined a dating website. The researchers looked at over a half-million individuals and divided them into groups by their self-stated race or ethnicity. The authors then “isolated the words and phrases that made each racial group’s essays statistically distinct” and posted the results.
