Today we have a new installment of
Ken Mondschein’s “History of the Single Life” series. Do you have a fetish for Asian
chicks, white guys or Indian women? Mondschein, who recently relocated to France,
explains why we sexualize the other.
“The desire to be more than just a
superficial tourist or white sahib, to be enmeshed in a cultural network — to belong — is now a big part of the Erotic Other's appeal. The idea
of fucking your way into another culture comes naturally from this — you can be
born into a society by attaining flesh in two ways: from a mother, or from a
lover. In either case, you take some portion of their identity upon yourself. Ever
since I moved to Paris,
people have been telling me that to really learn the language and culture, I
need to find a French lover.”
