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As you all probably know, searching for information online about interracial relationships can often lead you to some not-safe-for-work sites. Recently, blog Rachel’s Tavern did a little experiment to find out which terms were most likely to give you explicit results on various search engines. It’s pretty fascinating stuff. You can read details about her methodology here, but below are the main conclusions she came up with:

1. The first thing that is noticeable is how many sites more sites there are dedicated toward “interracial sex” or “interracial fucking” as opposed to interracial relationships or marriage, but among those dedicated to interracial relationships or marriage about half are filtered out by the explicit content filter.

2. There are many more sites that have “interracial sex” than “black sex.” There are nearly 3.5 millions sites or pages dedicated to interracial sex, and the vast majority of them do not make it through the spam filter, which means that many of them are pornographic.

3. About 2/3 of those sites that include the term interracial dating do not make it through the filter, indicating that most sites dedicated to interracial dating have pornographic content. The stats for “Black dating” are only moderately better.

4. Relationships between people of the same race especially White on White relationships are considered so normative that terms such as “intraracial relationships” or “same race relationships” yield very few results and most of them are academically oriented sites like this one, where researchers are comparing interracial and same race relationships.

5. When whites have sex, it is not called White sex. It is just called sex. A brief view of the sites that came up under that search rubric indicates that the reference to White sex is not racial.

6. Both African American/Black relationships and interracial relationships are commonly associated with sites with pornographic content. These racial terms frequently lead people to porn sites. While it is entirely possible that the majority of sites for whites who want to date whites have pornographic content, explicit racial terminology is not used