The term Asian fetish refers to sexual stereotypes associated with Asians, especially Asian women. It is a neologism that may appear in three contexts:
1. To denote pornography, the subjects of which are Asian women, often in stereotypical costume or situations, and to describe Western men who seek this form of pornography;
2. By Asian American civil rights activists and authors to describe a form of racism and sexism against Asians and based on stereotypes about Asians; and
3. As an academic term in postcolonialist literary and philosophical theory, referring to the racial fetishism of Asians in the western world.
Thus the meaning and interpretation of the term vary depending on the context. An Internet search[1] for the term will yield a mix of uses by activists and references to pornography sites, though in all cases it denotes an intense or abnormal sexual attraction of a non-Asian, typically a white man, to Asian women, primarily East Asians or Southeast Asians (such as Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Thai), or to stereotypical images of these women to the point where it may be difficult or impossible for such a man to form relationships with women of his own race, or even non-Asian women in general. Activists frequently stress the abnormal and unhealthy aspects of sexual attraction to distinguish Asian fetish from the healthy attraction to Asian women of those in regular interracial relationships.
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