Skin Bleaching and the Prestige Complexion of Sexual Attraction
Skin Bleaching and the Prestige Complexion of Sexual Attraction
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10.1007/s12119-011-9107-0
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2011-12-01
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Charles, Christopher A. D.
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Charles, Christopher A. D.
这篇文章的重点是在牙买加皮肤漂白的性吸引动机。在牙买加的种植园里，一些被俘虏的非洲人改变了他们的肤色。这些非洲人模仿了殖民地的英国人，他们漂白皮肤以保护“上级”、“性感”和理想的白色皮肤免受种族间性行为和热带气候的“杂质”。20世纪50年代，浅色皮肤的美丽和性吸引力在皮肤漂白的报纸广告中也很明显。这些广告告诉女性，通过皮肤漂白获得浅色肤色将使她们对男性具有性吸引力。在当代牙买加，肤色主义及其最明显的表现形式--皮肤漂白--的持续存在也很明显，正如一些赞美皮肤漂白者的舞厅歌曲所表达的那样，以及皮肤漂白者的解释性叙述，漂白使他们对潜在的配偶变得漂亮和性感。类似的主题也反映在批评中，即布朗宁舞厅女王卡琳被认为是性吸引力和舞蹈天赋，只是因为她的棕色身体。一些配偶要求他们的伴侣获得漂白的身体，因为他们发现这在性方面很有吸引力，类似于“按摩院”中的许多男性客户，他们只要求漂白皮肤的女性性工作者。
This article focuses on the sexual attraction motive for skin bleaching in Jamaica. Some captive Africans on plantations in Jamaica altered their complexion. These Africans modeled the British in the colony who bleached their skin to protect the "superior,'' "sexy,'' and ideal white skin from the "impurities'' of interracial sex and the tropical climate. The beauty and sexual attraction accorded to light skin was also evident in skin bleaching newspaper ads in the 1950s. The ads told women that acquiring light complexion through skin bleaching would make them sexually attractive to men. The persistence of colorism and its most blatant expression-skin bleaching-is also evident in contemporary Jamaica as expressed in some dancehall songs which praise skin bleachers, and the explanatory narratives of skin bleachers that bleaching makes them pretty and sexually attractive to potential spouses. Similar themes are reflected in the criticism that the browning Dancehall Queen Carlene was deemed sexually attractive and choreographically talented only because of her brown physicality. Some spouses request that their partner acquire the bleached physicality because they find it sexually attractive similar to many male clients in "massage parlors'' who only request female sex workers who bleach their skin.