Racial bias may involve a sexual dimension, which often takes the form of racial fetishism. The ways in which people perceive the relationship between these two concepts implicitly informs attitudes toward interracial sexual relationships and sexual preferences for particular races expressed by individuals. Human sexuality involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race is understood by scientists to be a social construct rather than a biological reality.
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