She goes younger or ethnic or foreign-born or down the socioeconomic scale or darker or she spends lonely nights at home with her cats. A white woman past forty is often passed over by her white-male contemporaries. I used that paucity-of-available-white-partners rationale to explain my relationships with black men for several years. And I had the socially acceptable explanation for my craving. That phrase, "Once you go black, you never go back" is all about the feeling of the skin. I craved it more strongly than Carrie Bradshaw craved Manolo Blahnik shoes. The first time I caressed black skin, it felt like a luxury I shouldn't be able to afford. There's only one patch of skin on a white man's body that remotely compares to nearly every inch of a black man's skin. Black skin is thick and lush, sensuous to the touch, like satin and velvet made flesh.
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