[Bad Jack Bauer]

Great article. I can understand as after growing up in a town that had not a single black family residing in it I found myself completely smitten with black girls in college. I find all manner of women attractive and have had relationships with Latinas (you have to have a bit of courage to seriously date one of those), Whites (too bland for my taste, like salt free crackers. Salt free crackers, what is the point of such a thing), and Asians (I got tired of making myself out to be a bigger and bigger ass to see if I could get a rise out of them), but my eye always drifted to the ladies of the darker persuasion.

I do not know why I pursued them so vigorously. I chased one with almost stalker like persistence and finally won her heart and married her. Sometimes I wonder why I did not see all of the drama, emotions, and vaguely marked buttons and unmarked minefields coming. Thing is, I saw the vaguely marked buttons before I started pushing them. I knew the unmarked minefields were there before I started walking across them. One look into the light colored eyes of my cornrowed Nubian princess made it worth it. Would I do the same for any other woman? Of course I would...If she was Black!

[rabscuttle385]

...but my eye always drifted to the ladies of the darker persuasion.

Well, as my African friends^* say...once you go black, you can't go back!

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* Three lawful immigrants to the US: two are now naturalized U.S. citizens, while the third's application is pending the resolution of a bureaucratic charlie foxtrot.

[Daffynition]

You relate an interesting experience. I can’t fairly address what a male might find a attractive in a female attribute....mostly b/c there are so many.

But as a seasoned observer, I would venture to say that there is always a *hook* and for each of us it is different. For me it is height. Could be the best looking guy on the planet, but if he isn’t taller than me....fugetabouit!

Which is why I can never relate to the Sarkozy/Bruni, Joel/Brinkley, etc. things. Not until I read the *48 Laws of Power* that it became clearer.

Then as we mature, it isn’t so much the physical, as it is what it *between the ears*

[OneWingedShark]

LOL - Good story! (And good humor there too.)