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Asian fetish is when people of asian descent, typically females, are "objectified and valued not for who they are as people, but for their race or perceptions of their culture".

Stereotyping of Asian personality traits

In the afterword to the 1988 play M. Butterfly, the writer, David Henry Hwang, using the term "yellow fever,", a pun on the disease yellow fever, discusses white men with a "fetish" for Asian women. Hwang argues that this phenomenon is caused by stereotyping of Asians in Western society.

Media Studies

In 2002, Jennifer Lynn Gossett and Sarah Byrne conducted a content-analysis study of 31 pornographic Web sites that advertised scenes depicting the rape or torture of women, and found that nearly half of the sites used depictions of Asian women as the rape victim.

Pathological behavior towards Asian women

Michael J. Lohman targeted Asian women in a spree that is suspected to have lasted from 2002 until Lohman was arrested March 30,2005. Lohman, cut and took locks of hair from about nine Asian female University students without their knowledge or consent and poured his own bodily fluids into the drinks of Asian female students more than 50 times, according to police reports. The fluids poured into the drinks were semen and urine. Lohman confessed to cutting the hair of Asian female students at least eight times.

During a search of Lohman's home police found containers filled with urine, as well as stolen underwear and gloves that were stuffed with human hair all being used for sexual self-gratification.

In 2000, two Japanese women were abducted and raped, videotaped and threatened with sending the tapes to their fathers.

Controversy

Bloodhound Gang an American alternative band, wrote and performed a song entiltled "Yellow Fever", which caused controversy within the Asian-American community.

Asian preferences in dating

"Racial Preferences in Dating," a study published in the Review of Economic Studies, found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women in dating. The study found East Asian women, who generally prefer East Asian men, do not discriminate against white men, but often discriminate against black and Hispanic men. As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating found.

Opinion that Asian Fetish is not all bad

Phoebe Eng has argued that not all Asians feel that Asian fetish is bad, since it has given new sexual visibility and liberation to an otherwise invisible and disadvantaged minority.

References

1. Prasso, Sheridan (2005). "'Race-ism,' Fetish, and Fever". The Asian Mystique. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. pp. 132–164, 141. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors=, |chapterl=, and |month= (help)
2. Hwang, David Henry (1988). "Afterward". M. Butterfly. New York: Plume Books. pp. p. 98. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
3. Gender & Society, Vol. 16, No. 5, 689-709 (2002) DOI: 10.1177/089124302236992 © 2002 Sociologists for Women in Society
4. Associated Press April 5, 2005 "Princeton Grad Student Accused Of Lewd Behavior Toward Women";
5. Sethi, Chanakya, The Daily Princetonian, "Mathematics student admits to about 60 incidents of lewd behavior toward Asian females on campus " 2005. April 6, 2005
6. Lee, Tom. AsianWeek "Bloodhound Gang Draws fans and Protestors to Fillmore" June 1, 2000
7. Fisman, Raymond. "An Economist Goes to a BarSlate magazine (2007-11-07). Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
8. Fisman,Raymond; Iyengar, Sheena S.; Kamenica, Emir; Simonson, Itamar. "Racial Preferences in Dating". 2007-05-11. Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
9. Eng, Phoebe (2000). "She Takes Back Desire". Warrior Lessons : An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power. New York: Atria. pp. 115–142.

See also

• Asian American contemporary issues
• Asiaphile
• Rice queen
• Yellow cab (stereotype)
• Mail-order bride
• Sex crimes against Asian women in the United States
• Prostitution in Thailand
• Prostitution in the Philippines
• Trafficking in human beings
• Korean adoptee
• International adoption
• Anna Mae He affair

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• Asian Fetish
• Hitsch, Günter J.; Hortaçsu, Ali; Ariely, Dan (February 2006), What Makes You Click? — Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating* (PDF)

News reports:

• "Facing Up to Facebook Racism", Campusprogress.org, May 24, 2005. -- News survey of campus racial bias cases. Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "AASA accuses publications of racism", Yale Daily News, April 17, 2006. Accessed May 3, 2006.

Editorials:

• Princeton Incident Shows Extreme Case of Asian Fetish, AsianWeek.com.
• For Asian women, 'fetish' is less than benign, YaleDailyNews.com.
• "The How's and Why's Behind the Fetish - Opinions of an ABC", asiazine.com.
• "The Asian America That Can Say 'No'", Modelminority.com. (Originally published in The Daily Californian, September 9, 1991) Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "Why Do Asian Women Date White Men?", Modelminority.com. (Originally published on Usenet, April 22, 1992) Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "The Yellow Fever Pages", Zukazuka.com, 2002. Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "Asian Fetish?", Salon.com, December 4, 2003. -- Sex-advice column. Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "Sex and the Campus Case 6: Attack of Yellow Fever", The Harbus Online, January 26, 2004. -- Op-ed piece from Harvard student newspaper. Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "The Myth Of The Rice King", Vancouver Sun, February 14, 2004.
• "Racial Fetishes", Punchandus.com, October/November 2005 issue. -- Humor. Accessed February 17, 2006.
• "Confessions of a 'Rice King'", The Asians in America Project, May 2005. Accessed June 4, 2006.
• "Racial preferences in the dating world", Seacoast Online, May 11, 2007. Accessed May 25, 2007.
• Deconstructing "Asian fetish" - the appeal of physical appearance and/or cultural traits, ColorQ World, Date Unknown. Accessed June 11, 2007.

• "Asian Female Fetish Syndrome", Asiance Magazine, September 2006. Accessed June 11, 2007.
• "Yellow Fever - They got it bad, and that ain't good.", Village Voice, November 8th, 2006, Accessed June 11, 2007.

Multimedia:

• Some Questions for 28 Kisses (8 mins, ©1994) by hapa filmmaker Kip Fulbeck Clip (requires Quicktime plugin) Preview examines Asian fetishes

• Articles with topics of unclear notability from October 2007
• Asian American issues
• Race
• Sexual fetishism