It's weird how we become like our parents, but I never expected this. Years ago when I was in high school we were at one of my brother's basketball games when he pointed out a dark-skinned cheerleader and said to me (paraphrasing), "You see that? I would have had that back in my day." I was about 14 so my father was about 34, not old by any means, but of course, like any child I thought that was completely gross. Uh, anything to do with my father and sex, not the dark-skinned girl. In the black community it's not really different than the white one or any other. Some men prefer blondes over brunettes, some guys like dark skin over light or medium. My wife is about my skin tone, maybe a skosh lighter. But over the past year I have found myself becoming more and more attracted to dark-skinned women. And some of them are like, Wesley Snipes dark. There's nothing wrong with liking that, but it just amazes me how attractive they have become to me when skin tone was never an issue for me. So long as she was physically attractive I couldn't care less what her skin tone was. I just hope my father doesn't like Cleveland Steamers or anything like that.