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**Zdfjpbth** · 12-27-2010, 07:12 AM

Do you, the well informed and objective person that you obvious are, believe that there is a bias among women against very light skin, and a bias men have against very dark skin, exist?

That's really interesting, it does make sense for the female's perception but I'm not too sure about the male's perception. I haven't yet met a female who views very light skin on a male positively, they seem to think that it makes the guy seem much less masculine. On the other hand, I do remember reading something about how darker skin now is the trend, especially for women, sort of like the bronze/caramel type, but that's the darkest 'limit' for it to stay attractive. This is also where I doubt that a 'whiter' female is preferred. Nowadays, it definitely seems that tanned girls are considered to be the more attractive ("hotter") ones, and although this might differ from one place to the other, this seems to be a consistent picture presented by the media and daily life. I'm one of the paler ones among the people around me (Not even pale in the true sense, but just pale relative to the environment I live in), and I keep getting bothered about the 'need' to get tanned, so from my personal observation and where I live, there is a growing bias against lighter skinned women.

12-27-2010, 07:12 AM	#2
Zdfjpbth Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 596 Senior Member	Do you, the well informed and objective person that you obvious are, believe that there is a bias among women against very light skin, and a bias men have against very dark skin, exist? That's really interesting, it does make sense for the female's perception but I'm not too sure about the male's perception. I haven't yet met a female who views very light skin on a male positively, they seem to think that it makes the guy seem much less masculine. On the other hand, I do remember reading something about how darker skin now is the trend, especially for women, sort of like the bronze/caramel type, but that's the darkest 'limit' for it to stay attractive. This is also where I doubt that a 'whiter' female is preferred. Nowadays, it definitely seems that tanned girls are considered to be the more attractive ("hotter") ones, and although this might differ from one place to the other, this seems to be a consistent picture presented by the media and daily life. I'm one of the paler ones among the people around me (Not even pale in the true sense, but just pale relative to the environment I live in), and I keep getting bothered about the 'need' to get tanned, so from my personal observation and where I live, there is a growing bias against lighter skinned women.
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