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“Racial Dating Preferences and Sexual Racism” by koreindian

64 min • 23 juni 2025

Note: This is a linkpost from my personal substack. This is on a culture war topic, which is not normally the focus of my blogging. Rationalist friends suggested that this post might be interesting and surprising to LW readers.

Summary

  • People widely exclude romantic and sexual partners on the basis of race. This is claimed not to be racism by those who have these attitudes, but it is.
  • Certain groups, such as Black women and Asian men, are highly excluded by all other groups. These cases also exhibit within-race asymmetries in racial preferences across gender:
    • Black women exhibit the highest endophilia (i.e. they most desire to date within race), but this is strongly not reciprocated by Black men.
    • Asian women exhibit the highest endophobia (i.e. they most refuse to date within race), but this is strongly not reciprocated by Asian men.
  • These within-race asymmetries are so strong [...]

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Outline:

(00:25) Summary

(08:09) Empirical Literature

(21:31) On The Streets of The Culture War

(36:06) Addendum 1: More Resources on Racial Dating Preferences

(37:47) Addendum 2: Q&A

(53:56) Addendum 3: Giving Objective Attractiveness Theories Their Due

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First published:
June 23rd, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bp6K5JkmjtytofAT2/racial-dating-preferences-and-sexual-racism

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Images from the article:

Screenshot of a Datawrapper table, which LessWrong does not support yet. See the interactable table on my blog here __T3A_LINK_IN_POST__.
Table 2 from Tsunokai, McGrath, & Kavanagh (2014). Odds Ratios are calculated that capture the willingness of Asian heterosexual females and Asian homosexual males to date various groups, compared against the Asian heterosexual male as baseline. Model 1 captures willingness to date Whites, Model 2 Blacks, Model 3 Latinos, Model 4 Asians, and Model 5 others.
Example of dating profile modified to have a racial preference disclosure from Thai, Stainer, & Barlow (2019).
Survey data from Thai, Stainer, & Barlow (2019). Graph 1A is from Study 1 (“No Asians no Blacks”) and shows how racist the men in the dating profiles are perceived. The black columns are reactions to profiles that contain race preference disclosures, and the off-white columns are the ones that do not. The left two columns contain those subjects that believe that racial dating preferences are racist, and the right two contain those subjects that do not think race preferences are racist.
Feminization and masculinization of face shape. Columns 2 and 4 are masculinized variants, Columns 1 and 3 are feminized variants. These are “50%” deformations. The study presented subjects with interpolated faces with softer deformations.
Female faces in a; male faces in b.
Perhaps Ohtani is the ideal for non-Western Asian women? Highly masculine build but with a bit of a baby-face.
Social media post discussing views on sexual selectiveness and organizational hierarchy.
Four headshot portraits arranged in pairs showing feminine and masculine facial features
VersaceEauFraiche tweets:

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