Like so many other white girls I definitely did gravitate towards dark or darker-skinned black guys (and without even over-thinking it too much). I just did ... and it was when I began dating when I was younger. Every guy I've been with was either dark, or darker-skinned. I'm not super-milky white, but still obviously white cus' of my Scottish-Norwegian ancestry and blonder hair, and darker black guys were just more attractive to me - more masculine. In my mind, they were just more attractive. I didn't think much about contrast back then, not consciously, but others reminded me of that all the time, even in public. My sons are what this one white man who approached me once described as "noticeably black." I was like "yeah, so?..." Back then, the 'stares' and the 'comments' bothered me a little more. Now, they don't as much. Another white man once actually asked me if I was "black owned" because he saw me with my children on the beach, hence the reason I chose that for my screen name, just to pee-off some white men. So, yes ... now I can say the contrast can be sexy, so true, but I also think that the attraction to contrast is very "natural." xoxx, Dana