>What began as an artistic interest grew to a society-wide, mass fetish in France in the aftermath of World War I, Why did WWI make french men fall in love with black penises? were there that many colonial french soldiers fighting on the western front?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrophilia
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>>18294038>were there that many colonial french soldiers fighting on the western front?France used about 200,000 black troops out of the 8.6 millions men it used in WW1, which is about 2%.About half of these were deployed in Europe.While it's an insignificant percentage of the troops used by France in that conflict, that's still an unprecedentedly large amount of negroes suddendly deployed to mainland France.Keep in mind that African colonies were still a pretty recent thing for France when WW1 broke out.The beginning of the Scramble for Africa had only occurred like 40 years before, and the conquest on the continent was only finalized around 1905.
>>18294038I think it was a fascination with West African art and culture, which was distinct from what French people were used to, and (you) are the one who makes it about penises
