As in, scorching.

To be honest, I know more EA/black gay/lesbian couples than EA/black heterosexual couples. Definitely EA/black lesbian couples. Off bat, I know six couples who’re still together. There were two more last year and three the year before, but they all split up.

They’re more likely to be found in a major city, such as London, Liverpool and Newcastle, because I don’t think I have ever come across any in major towns.

“Most of the guys seemed a little bitter about the fact that Hollywood and the media portray Asian men in a really negative way (welcome to the Black man’s world).”

They have a right to be ‘a little bitter’. Black characters are frequently seen with romantic interests – some of those romantic interests are Asian – while it’s rare for Asian male characters to be seen as romantic interests or have them, let alone being seen in sexual light.

Granted, Dean Cain, Brandon Lee, Russell Wong, Steven R. McQueen (The Vampire Diaries) and Keanu Reeves can be counted, but all are mixed race–so they don’t count in this respect.

When there’s a major male Asian American role that involves romance and such, a white guy usually gets it. If an Asian actor gets it, the kiss scene is purposely removed. Famous examples: Jet Li in ‘Romeo Must Die’, Jay Chou in ‘The Green Hornet’, Chow Yun-fat in ‘The Replacement Killers’ and so on. All their kiss scenes were edited out of their films.

Glenn (Steven Yeun) from ‘The Walking Dead’ is probably the first male Asian American character in 56 years to have an actual romantic interest *and* a proper kiss scene *and* in positive (sexual) light on a mainstream television drama. Never mind the fact he’s also unusually proactive in major sub-plots. A nice achievement for a Korean boy, eh?

Well, I suppose we can count John Cho (that Harold and Kumar film) and Daniel Dae Kim (I haven’t seen Lost, so I don’t know)? Just realised something, they’re Korean as well.

British films/TV? lol. Not happening.

I occasionally get requests for more pairings similar to those, but like you, Karen, the term Blasian was a new one for me. I’d never heard until someone sent me an email regarding my story.

Didn’t watch the video — way too long, and I’m actually not all that interested in his problems. Rude, right?

Oh, and as for dating an Asian man? Sure. Why not? I guess I should tell you, though, that I’m an Asian woman. Okay, just kidding. I’m black.

I don’t “know” any Asian men with black women in real life. In my totally unscientific opinion, black American women are much more resistant to dating outside their race than other groups of women, though this does seem to be changing.

Can’t comment to the video because there’s no captioning. Interesting topic.

Is Kimora Lee Simons famous there? Her father is black and her mother Japanese. She married Russell Simmons and I think she’s with Djimon Hounsou now.

I think the Asian dude has a point. I can tell you, finding stock footage of Asian man-titty is damned near impossible. They’re all either geeks, or doing martial arts.Tons of white guys and black guys, even Hispanics, but no Asians at all. I found one, but he was Chinese, not Samoan, so I couldn’t use him. I spent nearly as much time looking for a picture as I did writing the goddamned book! You’d think given the popularity of Samoans like the Rock and Troy Polomalu there would be hot Pacific Islanders everywhere. Not so much.

I’m doing another black woman Asian man pairing in the spring, called Milk and Honey. Hot for Teacher sold well. Clearly there’s an audience for this pairing.

Have you checked out the Blasian Narrative blog? Very interesting.