The Fetishization of Black Men

The power, aggression, and lust of Black masculinity

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“Do you have a big dick?”

It is a question I was asked more than once by an inebriated white girl in college. It was an assumption made about me by practical strangers.

…And I usually liked it. I wasn’t exactly conscious of the fetishization of black men at the time, or at…