Jason is earning his doctorate with a goal of helping people with mental health needs. NPR is not using his last name to protect his privacy and that of the clients he works with in his internship. He is gay and Filipino and says he felt like he had no choice but to deal with the rejections based on his ethnicity as he pursued a relationship.

But I started to think, I have a choice: Would I rather be alone, or should I, like, face racism? Jason, a year-old Los Angeles resident, says he received racist messages on different dating apps and websites in his search for love.

Jason says he faced it and thought about it quite a bit. So he wasn't surprised when he read a blog post from OkCupid co-founder Christian Rudder in about race and attraction. Rudder wrote that user data showed that most men on the site rated black women as less attractive than women of other races and ethnicities.

Similarly, Asian men fell at the bottom of the preference list for most women. While the data focused on straight users, Jason says he could relate. The OkCupid data resonated so much with year-old Ari Curtis that she used it as the basis of her blog, Least Desirable, about dating as a black woman. Curtis works in marketing in New York City and says that although she loves how open-minded most people in the city are, she didn't always find that quality in dates she started meeting online.

After drinks at a Brooklyn bar, one of her more recent OkCupid matches, a white Jewish man, offered this: "He was like, 'Oh, yeah, my family would never approve of you. Curtis describes meeting another white man on Tinder, who brought the weight of damaging racial stereotypes to their date. Other dating experts have pointed to such stereotypes and lack of multiracial representation in the media as part of the likely reason that plenty of online daters have had discouraging experiences based on their race.

Melissa Hobley, OkCupid's chief marketing officer, says the site has learned from social scientists about other reasons that people's dating preferences come off as racist, including the fact that they often reflect IRL — in real life — norms.

And in a segregated society, that can be harder in certain areas than in others. Curtis says she relates to that idea because she has had to come to terms with her own biases.

After growing up in the mostly white town of Fort Collins, Colo. Hobley says the site made changes over the years to encourage users to focus less on potential mates' demographics and appearance and more on what she calls "psychographics. She also points to a recent study by international researchers that found that a rise in interracial marriages in the U.

over the past 20 years has coincided with the rise of online dating. Curtis says she is still conflicted about her own preferences and whether she'll continue to use dating apps. For now, her strategy is to keep a casual attitude about her romantic life. Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. The authors of a new book are arguing for race-blind dating apps — and the removal of filters for race and ethnicity. A study about dating preferences along racial lines on OKCupid came to a similar conclusion: Black women had a hard time matching on dating apps, as did black and Asian men.

For their book, Lundquist and her co-writers analyzed large-scale behavioral data from one of the leading dating sites in America. The authors declined to publicly reveal which digital dating platform they used for their research per a data-share agreement with the website.

They also conducted over 75 in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities. The authors found that racial filtering on mating forums exposed black women to more exclusion and rejection than white, Latina and Asian female daters. Black women were the most likely to be excluded from searches, as well as the most likely recipients of offensive messages.

The research trio found that discrimination is laced into the algorithms of mainstream dating apps and websites. Hinge, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish and Match. com offer race and ethnicity filters, while Tinder and Bumble do not. So, how did users go from being ignored to harassed? For Nicole, a year-old Afro Caribbean single mother from Brooklyn, receiving overly sexual overtures from non-black men on apps has become an unwelcome norm.

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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. The authors of a new book are arguing for race-blind dating apps — and the removal of filters for race and ethnicity. A study about dating preferences along racial lines on OKCupid came to a similar conclusion: Black women had a hard time matching on dating apps, as did black and Asian men. For their book, Lundquist and her co-writers analyzed large-scale behavioral data from one of the leading dating sites in America.

The authors declined to publicly reveal which digital dating platform they used for their research per a data-share agreement with the website. They also conducted over 75 in-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities.

The authors found that racial filtering on mating forums exposed black women to more exclusion and rejection than white, Latina and Asian female daters. Black women were the most likely to be excluded from searches, as well as the most likely recipients of offensive messages. The research trio found that discrimination is laced into the algorithms of mainstream dating apps and websites.

Hinge, OKCupid, Plenty of Fish and Match. com offer race and ethnicity filters, while Tinder and Bumble do not. So, how did users go from being ignored to harassed?

For Nicole, a year-old Afro Caribbean single mother from Brooklyn, receiving overly sexual overtures from non-black men on apps has become an unwelcome norm. Can you twerk? Mish, a black executive assistant to C-suite business administrators, told The Post that her digital quest for companionship reaped a paltry handful of bad love connections. He was sexually aggressive during their first in-person meet-up last year.

After finally engaging in consensual sex, he ghosted her. Clark, a year-old urban contemporary choreographer, told The Post his brush with racism ultimately got him banned from a leading dating app. Clark responded to the request with a flurry of expletives. The authors suggest doing away with racial filters on apps in order to eliminate the perpetuation of racial stereotyping and discrimination.

Contact The Author Name required. Email required. Comment required. February 19, am Updated February 21, am. SWIPE WHITE: Authors of "The Dating Divide" find that black women face the most racial and sexual discrimination on dating apps. Filtering for race on dating apps has led to rampant racism. Alamy Stock Photo For their book, Lundquist and her co-writers analyzed large-scale behavioral data from one of the leading dating sites in America.

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