It makes such perfect and depressing sociological sense, doesn't it?

Oh yeah.

I have a hard time with interracial porn, because I imagine someone getting off on the interracial part of it, like it's naughty or something, and it skeeves me. It's not supposed to be a thing, dammit. Despite all the interracial nudity I might have taken part in on my own. But at least I feel clearer about motives there.

Kinda like how I won't date anyone who only dates black women. You made race part of the point. I don't wanna play that.

People skeeve me.

Why does that damn Viagra commercial music get stuck in my head?

Can I seek help if the earworm lasts longer than four hours?

I'm pretty sure you should see your doctor, Cass.

I have a hard time with interracial porn, because I imagine someone getting off on the interracial part of it, like it's naughty or something, and it skeeves me.

To tie that back to the earlier porn discussion - this is one reason I'm frequently more comfortable watching gay porn than het. There's a lot of het porn that I could get off on but I can't turn off the part of my brain that's imagining what the misogynist dicks are getting out of it, and it means that there's a very narrow range that isn't tainted.

There are a lot of creepy people and things in the world.

Obviously.

I've seen stuff about those young black men/white swingers parties, and while I intellectually understand people may have predispositions towards attractions for a certain type, that just skeeves me pretty much.

Those parties just seem to much Mandingo-esque for my comfort. Euch.

On the non-controversial other hand, I just had delcious Cajun food with my sister.

My family has always been lower-class, socioeconomically -- my mom worked for three years during the divorce years, but my dad was sole breadwinner for most of the marriage, and he was making 40K for a family of 4 when he retired in 1998, after working as a phone lineman for 38 years at the same company.

We never missed a meal, even though it might have been grilled cheese and tomato soup or SOS, and we always had a running car, albeit used and old. We never got electricity cut off, and my sister and I always got two new school outfits from Kmart or sometimes Penney's each September.

So, not stratchin' poor, but definitely middle-lower class, I think.

Those parties just seem to much Mandingo-esque for my comfort. Euch.

The photo exhibit thing that I read about, the people at the parties called the men Mandingos. (I can't remember where I read about this, and I'm scared to google.)

The neighbors just had me over to look at the paint colors for their living room and dining room, and I've now had two cold beers in very quick succession. While breathing paint fumes.

Re: the earlier porn discussion, I think recs like the Porn for Straight Girls ones are well-intentioned but ultimately not that helpful, because sexual turn-ons are so individual. If you take two straight women, the greatest common denominator in what turns them on is presumably someone with a penis, but that leaves a hell of a lot of variation in what kind of someone with a penis. Nothing they've recommended has been even close to something I'd like.

I'm also unsurprised, although skeeved, by the interracial cuckolding thing. I think that's a pretty standard theme in stuff like Penthouse Letters, too.

OK, I have thought this out a little more -- I'm afraid interracial porn, like anything else, follows the "90% is crap" rule, and in that case, most of the crap is totally skeevy. But it's not everything.