It's very comforting to know that some men actually
prefer lighter-skinned women (I'd like to think our 'preferences' help balance us out in the end lol). For a time, women actually bought into the whole "I must go tanning, lest I look like Casper" thing, but those sentiments still exist. I have a couple friends who are SO ashamed of their "ghostly" skin tone, they use make up to "cover" it up... or they just feel so self-conscious for being so pale. It's beautiful though!
I, myself, have dated primarily pale, White men and though it isn't a preference, I have loved them (
and their skin tone) irregardless. Black is beautiful, as well though. So is Brown and every other color in between.. but Hispanic men aren't
generally attractive to me (general height differences).
Can't help what you're attracted to.
you brought up a topic, i have STRONG opinions about.
i HATE how this social, cultural, female insecurity based on men's pompous, gross, pornographic indulgence in their sexuality or wherever it came from, idea that women need and at times, burden them with, which inevitably controls them to burn their skin to be hot, sexy, beautiful because like everyone else they want to be accepted, and they want to know their partner thinks their beautiful and to be desired after. taking these natural needs that are perfectly justified and might i add, wonderful needs and turning that into a way to get their selfish fantasies? NO WAY
first off:
women that look like cancer are unappealing, enough said. it is kind of like women that are too skinny just don't look healthy. there's a difference between being naturally skinny, and looking like you eat nothing in a society that you can eat plentiful in if you so desire. whatever happened to a woman having a body and that's ok ya know? a little cellulite is perfectly fine. some love handles are nice to cuddle with. a proportionate body shows off the figure of the woman which in our culture, where's the figure? now of course each woman is built differently anatomically, but each of those types show off a great, natural femine figure, and what has happened to that in our society? seems like the standard is starve yourself, and burn your skin to be attractive. i'll pass on that standard, and go after women that are better than the standard that i see, and hear from guys around me.
secondly:
i won't complain about a healthy glow from our sun. our sun gives life to everything. makes a beautiful day even more beautiful but not a glow from a machine. healthy tan is perfectly fine, but not an industrial burn across the entire body ya know?
sorry i'm going on a tantrum here, and i hope it doesn't distract the thread. i'm just baffeled by what seems to be, the new standard of beauty that we see in the media, that we see people pushing on each other, or themselves, that we see men, abusively pushing on women. women shouldn't have to change their skin color, or the body to be seen as beautiful just because the man has grown tired over the years, or because the men watch too much of various of types of media that i think kind of made the problem worse.
RANT OVER-BACK TO REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAM FOR MYSELF-FOR NOW