Asian porn is one of the most widely watched forms of adult entertainment, yet its widespread consumption can reinforce harmful stereotypes about Asian women as sexually submissive and passive.

These images are also popularized through Hollywood movies like Miss Saigon, box office hits like Priscilla Queen of the Desert and hip-hop music from 2 Live Crew. Such portrayals constitute forms of racial fetishism.

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Asian women face special challenges that aren’t widely discussed among other women of color. Due to these circumstances, certain parts of the Asian American community fetishize and sexualize women within their communities; such behavior is demonstrated through racist rhetoric used against East Asian descent women that has become known as yellow fever; its effects can be felt far beyond message boards or dark corners of the internet and negatively impacts lives in multiple ways.

Derogatory language directed towards Asian women has become part of “locker room talk” among some men within the AAPI community and can be seen as casual discrimination. Fetishization of these women could result in violence being committed at alarmingly higher rates than normal.

Asian women can also be seen to be sexualized through how they are depicted in popular culture, often being depicted either as exotic foreigners who are submissive, nonthreatening and passive or as intelligent, emotionless career women who lack emotional expression.

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