Why Pop Culture Can T Deal With Black Male Sexuality

“Last Taboo: Why Pop Culture Can’t Deal with Black Male Sexuality” and “Its Colour was its Size: The Twisted Myth of the Small Asian Penis” provide classic examples of some common stereotypical myths that implicate penis size and race. This particular brand of stereotyping has been referred to as “sexual threat” or “sexual racism”, which has been the basis of violence and unequal treatment towards races throughout history. This paper will examine and explore the impact of the conflation of penis size and race, as well as the long-term impact of this racialized, gendered, and sexualized mythopoeia. It will assess controversial artwork, as well as discuss the Black male’s sexuality in today’s society. It appears that our history and culture

Racial fetishism involves fetishizing a person or culture belonging to a race or ethnic group that is not one's own—therefore it involves racial/ethnic stereotyping and objectifying those bodies who are stereotyped, and at times their cultural practices (Bhabha, 1983). This brings me to Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most famous photographers of the 80’s who stood out because of the way he rendered his predominantly black and white photography, and even more so, for his provocative thematics, frequently involving overt nudity, sexually explicit moments, homoeroticism and the aesthetics of sado masochism (Kostev, 20170). His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male

As Wesley Morris explains in “Last Taboo: Why Pop Culture Can’t Deal with Black Male Sexuality”, today, male nudity has become more common onscreen. Yet, when it comes to penises on the screen, they usually belong to white men. It is also apparent that the hypersexual black male stereotype still exists in some minds. Take for instance the Charleston Church Shooting. According to one of the survivor’s account, the killer told them, “You rape our women, and you're taking over our country. And you have to go." This was the same type of thinking that justified slavery and hundreds of years of brutal and unfair treatment towards African American. Furthermore, polls conducted over the years have found that many Americans still harbor beliefs about racial and ethnic minorities that are based on racist stereotypes (Nesbitt, 2016). If we were truly living in a post-racial society that was free from the discrimination caused by stereotypes, today, we wouldn't continue to struggle with inequity in the criminal justice system; police brutality and racial profiling of African Americans; or the various discriminations that exist in the workplace. “There's only one way to work our way out of the box we find ourselves in. We need a new conversation – one that includes equal measures of hope and pain, threat and opportunity, conflict and resolution. We need to train. We need to start talking about it without fear of making a mistake. Only then can