White Straight Male here.

Mostly prefer white women, as they have the most variation in most aspects, including my personal favourites (bright eyes, dark hair, light skin).

Some Far East Asian women are certainly attractive, so I'd consider them to be 2nd on my racial attractiveness list. Japanese and Korean mainly.

Fourth on the list would be African/black. I don't find dark skin particularly attractive, and dark eyes are somewhat dull to me. They tend to have nice hair and figures, though.

Other Asian areas are varied, so come both 3rd and 5th (last).

You completely missed Mediterranean females!

TimeLord:
If someone is attractive, they are attractive.

If they aren't, they aren't.

I'm not sure that separating what you find attractive by racial group is logical.
Or rather, I'm not sure that dismissing an entire racial group as "unattractive" even logical.

I'm with you. I don't even have a type. The only type that my friends seem to have come up with is willing to do active things.

I either like the whole package or I don't. I don't think about the race of any one. It's as simple as yay or nay.

Having said that, I do find that I gravitate towards white females more than anything else. But that could just be because that is what I was surrounded by a lot. I also found after some introspection that the women I find attractive in other races tend to either have a mix in them or have qualities that make them less like their own race. For instance, a Chinese girl I liked in high school used to lighten her hair so it wasn't just black.

These are just some observations I have made throughout my life.

When you say a preference, surely you don't just mean one, right? Right? Well, it's your lucky day! I'm going to list you all my preferences, anyway.

I like White girls, Middle Eastern girls, Latinas, and westernized Asian girls. And I can't forget my Black queens.

And believe me, ladies, when I say preference, this absolutely does not mean I exclude everyone else. Basically, if you have a L.A. face with an Oakland booty, you're good in my book.

Race never really plays into it that much but there seems to be a lot more variety in white women.
Its always seemed that asian women are just so many shades of the same colour(no pun intended)
and that white women often have drastically different styles in comparison.
I like something that catches my eye in a good way and not literally snares it in a some kind of sexual trap.
Black women do more often than any other kind at least here where I live here in ireland though its not always a bad thing.
Its just kinda difficult to explain really.

Latin women have the best bodies, hair, and sex appeal by far, to me.

White women, although since most people around here are white, my view is fairly skewered.

If we were looking at celebs, I probably wouldn't know where to turn to first.

I usually prefer white, asian or latino men. I rarely am attracted to black men.
I think it's partly due to familiarity. I know a lot of people who are asian or latino since I lived in Toronto. And being white, I'm familiar with white people as well. Though I knew a lot of black people too... I don't know.

You'd have to acknowledge the fact that everyone's going to have at least some racial preference in a potential mate, and not from an overtly racist standpoint either. In the case of myself, I don't really care seeing as I judge intellectual capabilities first and physical appearance second, but I have acknowledge that I consider asian women, on average, more attractive than I would caucasian or black women.

I think that mixed girls tend to be extremely attractive, and I mean pretty much any mix. After that I would go with white girls. Though as a basic rule there are plenty of attractive women in every race.

Truthfully, I find Middle Eastern/Arabic/etc women to be the most attractive to me. Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian, Israeli, etc: Overall, an attractive girl from this area is most-beautiful to me compared to attractive girls from other parts of the world.

I carry no ancestry from this area, either, it's just something I've noticed about my personal tastes.

I honestly do not find any race in particular more attractive than any other, idealistic optimism and a passion for reading on the other hand /swoon

Also eyes, damn those big, Bambi eyes!

ozan192:
WOW. There are some absolutely disgraceful people on this web-site. How can a man say that he finds black women ugly because they have big lips/nose when the man himself is black and then have the audacity to blame it on the media and his upbringing. Seriously, grow the fuck up. You're not a fucking child. It's as if the guy has a small nose/lips himself.

The whole "I want to appear more white thing is insane". People have seriously lost their minds.

I don't find anyone outside my race attractive. That's because I'm a biological organism. I'm rigged to think like that. Every successful and intelligent person keeps to their own race because that is a smart thing to do. Not because they're egomaniacs, but because that's how every goddamn creature on this planet acts. You don't see fire ants fucking wood ants do you. But let me guess, I'm racist for saying that.

Excuse me? Why am I disgraceful for saying that I don't find black women attractive just because I'm black myself? Yes, I understand that I myself am black, but I obviously don't find myself attractive nor do I find any other black people attractive, only mainly light-skinned people. It's just my preference and I can't change that.

I'm not "blaming" anyone, but yes, I think my upbringing and society does have a large influence on me and pretty much everyone else. How can it not? They're a minority, and this is still a white man's world, therefore they're under-represented in the media, beauty, etc. Although maybe that's partly because white women have more, for lack of a better word, variety (to me, most black women can't dye their hair any other colour than the natural black without looking horrid, and many people, wrongly or not, say that "all Chinese/Japanese people look the same", which could suggest, I dunno, a limited facial type; maybe that's just because they're more foreign to us, since I doubt that's how they see themselves).

I don't want to "appear more white". Well, I've already said that I have insecurities about my race and appearance (like a lot of people, but whatever), and all the stereotypes and the shittiness of the black culture doesn't help either. It gives me a bad name, and it gives me a bad name. Yes, I understand how self-centred that sounds, but if you're white, you probably wouldn't understand. "Aw, it's not so bad that all anyone can remember of your diseased history is oppression, slavery and tribal violence!". You can't blame me for feeling like that, just like you can't blame Muslims for being ashamed of their religion whenever they hear another story on the news about terrorists. It would certainly be easier and, overall, more advantageous, if I was white. Yeah, it could be worse, but it could be better. If I'm insane, then so be it. I'm seeing a counsellor for a whole bunch of problems I have anyway.

But then you go on to say that you don't find anyone outside of your race attractive because you're a biological organism and "every successful and intelligent person keeps to their own race because that is a smart thing to do", and "that's how every goddamn creature on this planet acts", comparing us to animals? That's fucking retarded. So you'd rather we go back to the 50s, where segregation was treated as a normal part of everyday life and people were arrested for having interracial relationships?

I don't know what you're on about with "social/racial/ethnic barriers". For example, as I aforementioned, I live in a predominantly white area with no real racism problems, and my family (who are Nigerian Muslim) are tolerant of other races, religions and whatnot. So, in the future, if I were to tell my mother that I was dating a white Atheist, I doubt she'd object. And even if she did, why should I give a fuck? It's my life, and I'm not going to let any conservative racism or outdated tradition stop me from pursuing happiness. Why should anyone be stopped them from being in a happy relationship just because of others' petty gripes with something that they shouldn't poke their unwanted noses into?

No, you're not racist for saying that. Just highly ignorant with, to say the least, an inherently flawed logic. We're humans, much more intelligent and complex than animals, and people like what they like. Whether that's biology, sociology or whatever is subjective, but don't go around stating your broken opinions like it's fact.

Zen Toombs:

Relish in Chaos:
Just want to ask one quick question. Presumably, pansexuals would have no racial preference at all, right? Since they have the capacity to be attracted to anyone.

Not quite. Pansexuals - like everyone else - tend to be on something of a spectrum. They often do have preferences, especial likes or dislikes just like everyone else.

Ah, okay then.

Mick Golden Blood:
This is not my perspective, my perspective is from experience. My experience DOES matter, because my experience molds my perspective. From my experience these are the conclusions I have gained about the general kinds of people. I am not being told to think certain ways, I'm experiencing these things happening 1st hand. To say I am racist because of my perspective, molded by experience and not learning from another, already biased source, is what really is pants-on-head retarded.

Get where I'm goin with this? Probably not, or even if you do, you don't care, and will continue to gang up on my for shits.

Whatever dude

p.s. I'm not the one freaking out. I did attempt to keep things "mellow", but it's you people lashing out in a rage.

That doesn't change the fact that your experience is subjective and your view is small-minded. Interracial relationships don't automatically have barriers just because one of them happens to be black, because you can happen to have a tolerant family and live in a location without any real racism problems.

You're basically saying that same thing that people said in the 50s, and that's incredibly backwards and conservative. Saying that people should basically self-segregate themselves and stick to their own kind because venturing outside of the clan might bring out disturbances from some small-minded racist who opposes for whatever reason a black man boinking a white woman.

I guess, if you're against interracial relationships due to social problems, you're also against same-sex relationships because the family might object and they might face abuse. Same difference. No matter what your defence is, it's still discriminative. And don't get up on your high horse and feel offended by that, as if you didn't think someone would say that. Look up the definition of discrimination, and you'll see your opinion fits it perfectly.

the poll is reflecting my orignal point, people are saying race is irrelevant
but black girls are largley not seen as attractive but asain and white girls are.

I see the asian men results are quite low too

I'm more often attracted to black women than (east, I assume) asian women. Of course, asians are a lot closer to the American cultural/commercial standard of beauty. I'm white, and I don't think white women have any advantage in my eyes. Except for the fact that in the sorts of places I've lived, there is more ethnic variation among white women. There's chinese and koreans around here, but no Uzbeks or Aymara.

Attractiveness is primarily about exposure. Can you believe how ugly people were fifty years ago?

I've also read some passable arguments that international beauty icons are increasingly multi or ambiguously racial, as standards of attractiveness incorporate different elements from around the globe. There was some line to the effect that the perfect woman know has to have a genetically nigh-impossible blend of various stereotypical racial attributes.

Latina females. Oh man...

But I can be attracted to any race really, there are fine looking women in all. But Latinas... yeah.

I don't feel I've met enough black or Asian people in my lifetime to give a proper answer to this, of all the people I have ever met I'd say that non-white people make up about 20%.

So my answer was 'White Females', but that was based purely on my own experience, and I have known far more white people than any other race. Of course, this means that I have known far more unattractive white people than I have unattractive non-white people, but all things considered the proportions are roughly the same.

Attractiveness, even though it's subjective, is normally distributed just like everything else, with the vast majority of people falling somewhere in the middle.

Other.

While I find a couple of ethnicities to be less pretty in general, I have no actual ethnic preference. Ladies can be beautiful regardless of background and it's really their personality that makes them attractive.

TimeLord:
If someone is attractive, they are attractive.

If they aren't, they aren't.

I'm not sure that separating what you find attractive by racial group is logical.
Or rather, I'm not sure that dismissing an entire racial group as "unattractive" even logical.

Would you say the same thing about gender preference? Because this is essentially the same thing. OP's not asking whether you consider EVERY person of the option you didn't choose to be ugly, just which one you find most attractive. Like... preferring redhead girls to brunettes. And race is probably the most prominent part of how someone looks, so it doesn't make sense to avoid it just because racism is a touchy subject.

Anyway, I'm a straight white male who prefers white girls.

Mostly attracted to Hispanic females. Asians are also cute.

I do often think about this strangely enough, given that my university is pretty international so you see people of all different races all the time.

In all honesty though i just have to say it depends on the person. I know that sounds like a cop-out politically correct cowards way out but in all honesty i think for me it does.

I found some Indian or Arabian girls notably attractive on occasion, if i'm going to have to pick a race. But that's not to say i wouldn't pick a white girl or a black one if they were equally attractive.

This might make me sound racist, but I've never found a black woman I found attractive, but for every other race, I've found at least one attractive woman. Maybe it's the low density of black people here.

I don't have a preference, I just like women.

I know a girl who is part japanese who is absolutely gorgeous. I also know a black girl who is similarly extremely pretty. Hmm. Decisions, decisions... ooh, also a half caribbean girl. Those three are probably the three most attractive people I've ever met.

Ending up voting 'mixed'. Idk why, its the only option that seemed to imply 'everything is good.'

Maybe it's something like identifying with ones own race but I don't find any other race that attractive, sure there are women from other races that I find quite attractive but not as attractive as my own race.

I am not saying the "ugliest" white woman is head and shoulders better looking than the most beautiful Asian, Indian, mixed or Black race woman. Just on average white woman seem more attractive to me.

I wouldn't reject a relationship with another race based purely on race though.

I'm a straight Caucasian male and in general, I find myself more attracted to Caucasian women. Does that mean I am not attracted to other races? Absolutely not, I'm open to relationships with any of them. Looking at my past, my tendency has been more towards white women is all.

Straight white male.I've always ,by coincidence, found that those I like for their personallity also seem to be small, and dark haired and kinda pale. But then again I'm only 5ft 8. As a result happenstance has it I've liked white or Asian girls.

Personally, I'm usually unattracted to black people (obviously with exceptions). Sounds shitty to say, but just how I roll.

I'm most attracted to somewhat dark-skinned women.

Frokane:

Im not saying i generally beleive any of this and im not brainwashed by the media, but on a very large scale on TV, Movies even the internet forums (hot girls thread) there is definatley an imbalance so Id just like to ask for some honest opinions on racial attractivenes.

Remember having a racial prefrence does not make you racist.

I'm a white male (I suppose you could go further and say Russo-Scottish if you want to get specific).

My attractiveness hierarchy generally goes: Black/mixed > Asian > White

It's basic, and since Latina/Indian/Native American/etc. skintones usually fall somewhere within that spectrum without significantly different phenotypical features, I'll just say they're mixed in.

I'm mostly attracted to facial features in non-obese women (I don't find obese women attractive at all, period), so race isn't a big deal to me. I've dated white, Korean, black, mixed, and people are people are people. That's pretty much the rule.

There might be some slight racial attractiveness, but it's mostly a social construct. For instance, siblings or cousins separated at an early age can find each other attractive later on if they don't know about their familial relationship. There's a slight preference for women to choose a same-race man, but I don't remember how large the preference was.

Personally, I think it's mostly due to the media. The most powerful nations in the world are generally Caucasian-dominated, thus the subconscious association between Caucasian and successful (economically, academically, etc.) isn't a big leap. If this were to change, you'd see a change in perceptions of beauty.

For the United States minorities are very underrepresented in pretty much all forms of media, and those alternatives which do exist (BET) aren't any better; they represent the other extreme just as well. Seriously, I counted fewer non-black models in Essence than I counted minority models in Vogue or Cosmo. Ratios are skewed all over the place (no arguments about reverse-racism, please).

Alas, I'm in Salt Lake City, which is pretty much the most diverse place in Utah - at like 80% Caucasian, so my subjective experience is skewed as such.