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From the reading I learned about sexual minorities. Most of the readings focused on homosexuality between gay males and female lesbians. I wanted to try and find some ethnic images of different races viewed in a sexual manner because that is harder to find than homosexual images. Lesbianism is encouraged by heterosexual males, lesbian are seen as a turn on. Gay men are being viewed in media more because of the debate about Gay Marriage.
I was disappointed when I couldn’t find any images of different ethnicity viewed in a sexual manner other than in music, movies, or some magazines. I wanted to find images that were mainstreamed for African-American, Latino, or other races. I wanted to examine what influenced them. But after an hour of searching I decided to just choose mostly homosexual images.
The first two images from the top are homosexual male couples. The top first image made me stop and think; this image looked like two heterosexual males. When viewing other images I noticed that there were common stereotypes within the images. Either the men looked like heterosexual/commonly dressed men or they were depicted as being feminine. When I say the gay men were depicted as feminine I mean that the men were wearing make-up or dressed outside of their gender norm in bright colors and/or costumes.
The lesbian images on the other hand were there for pleasure. All the images I viewed of lesbians were seductive kissing/embracing or posing for the viewer. Lesbians are viewed as a fantasy for heterosexual males. The two images that I have chosen support my last claim and these images were common.
The top lesbian couple seems to be viewed by a “male gaze”. They are directly looking out at the viewer. The lesbian couple is about to embrace one another but they have stopped in a seductive manner to look up at you, the viewer. Also notice how both of these lesbian couples are wearing some kind of lingerie. Most of the images depicting lesbians had some kind of lingerie on, never fully nude.
The last image I have chosen was Nelly, a music rap/hip hop artist, who is known for his sexualized lyrics and music videos. In this image the women are in bikinis. Nelly is displaying his heterosexuality through proving his sexuality in his music videos. There are no fully nude males or females that I could find that were of another race depicted in a sexual act with another person.
When searching for sexual pictures of different races it was hard to find ones that were not bias, racist, offensive, or “poking fun” at how other races are depicted sexually. I thought it would have been easy to find images of a Latino couple being sexual, but it was not.
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