https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril#Sexual_fears

The core of Yellow Peril ideology is the White man's fear of seduction by the Oriental non-white Other; either the sexual voracity of the Dragon Lady and the Lotus Blossom stereotypes, or the sexual voracity of the Seducer.

Racist revulsion towards miscegenation — interracial sexual intercourse — by the fear of mixed-race children as a physical, cultural, and existential threat to Whiteness proper.

In Queer theory, the term Oriental connotes contradictory sexual associations, according to the nationality of the man. A Seducer can be perceived as Japanese and kinky or as Filipino and available. Likewise, the man can be seen as Oriental, and thus sexless and perverse.

The seductive Asian man (wealthy and cultured) was the common White male fearof the Asian sexual "other." The Yellow Peril sexual threat was realized by way of successful sexual competition, usually rape-seduction or rape, which rendered the woman a sexual untouchable. (see: 55 Days at Peking, 1963)  In Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (1994) the critic Gary Hoppenstand identified interracial sexual-intercourse as a threat to whiteness:

The threat of rape, the rape of white society dominated the yellow formula. The British or American hero, during the course of his battle against the yellow peril, overcomes numerous traps and obstacles in order to save his civilization, and the primary symbol of that civilization: white women.

Stories featuring the Yellow Peril were arguments for white purity. Certainly, the potential union of the Oriental and white implied at best, a form of beastly sodomy, and at worse, a Satanic marriage. The Yellow Peril stereotype easily became incorporated into Christian mythology, and the Oriental assumed the role of the devil or demon.

The Oriental rape of white woman signified a spiritual damnation for the women, and at the larger level, white society.

Originally Posted By DrewDarden⏩

Originally Posted By JuceSpringsteen⏩