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Adding section to article labeled Racial fetishism.

New Subsection (3): Fetishism of Races through Genetics

Racial fetishism can also lead to preference in specific genetics. Although it has been proven that specific sexual selection is an evolutionary tactic, modern society reveals that sexual selection can go above and beyond genetic and evolutionary factors. Observed in a study of genetic variation in human mate preferences in sexually dimorphic physical traits, "identical twins reported more similar preferences than nonidentical twins, suggesting genetic effects," but, "the relative magnitude of estimated genetic and environmental effects differed greatly and significantly between different trait preferences, with heritability estimates ranging from zero to 57%."

3.1: Skin Color Preferences

The preference for skin color is proven to be more sexually dimorphic than height for instance. In recent findings, women had a preference of fair-skinned men, leading to an unexpected result that "reflects a population-specific perceived association between skin colour and race and/or social class". This explains sexual preference regarding skin color relevant to racial preference, and eventual fetishism. In essence, a fetish is an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion. Favoritism of certain genetics can be classified as a fetish. A recent obsession of genetics involves the so called "warrior gene" where it is claimed that people who hold this gene are more aggressive in "response to provocation." This has falsely led people to want to reproduce with those who hold this gene, implying that their children will become natural born leaders and so on.

3.2: Imperialism and Intermixing

The interest in preference of certain racial groups begun after Imperialism when different cultural and social groups began intermixing. Carole Sweeney claims "interwar cultural primitivism developed from an initial modish interest in black cultural difference that simply inverted essentialist racial typologies into more heterogenous text of cultural difference that gradually opened up debates on race, colonialism, and representation of blackness," validating the effects of colonial intermixing on race.

3.3: Sperm Donors and Sperm Selection

On a social level, genetic preference regarding race can be easily found in selection of certain sperm for mothers who cannot conceive on their own. Many can have a racial preference when it comes to dating, but when a mother is choosing to her specific sperm out of data sets, race oftentimes becomes more of a determinate factor. Even more so, it is argued that "racial classification marked by innocent motives and benign effects give reason for tase when they [mothers] needlessly entrench divisive assumptions about how people of a particular race think or act. These reflections suggest that racially salient forms of [sperm] donor disclosure are pernicious social practices, which, while operating beyond the reach of law, ought to be condemned as bad policy."

Racial fetishism or racial preference on a genetic level is hard to prove due to the fact that "few have addressed race-based decisionmaking in the contexts of romance and family." This is also seen specifically in the preference with certain sperm donors because it is rarely taken into consideration that nearly nobody has "racial classification of gamete donors in assisted reproduction."