The romans were Darker european types,with a Arabid and Indid element in their population.

The Gaulic celtics and the Conquered Germans from the previous southern german Nordid hallstatt culture were the slaves of roman society,their women being captured and sold as concubines or prostitutes.
You would think a roman female slave would be of higher worth,but no,Gaulic and Germanic women were the highest cost of women,same in the arabo-persian world and Turkish ottoman later with Slavic and Circassian women.
Noble Roman women sought to look like the prostitutes,roman men frequented and cheated on for fun,the Kelto-Germanish slaves that were considered the lowest in society,but the women were considered the standard of beauty,so Roman noble women would dye their hair with toxic dyes to look Nordic.
You would think with Trade with Arabians and Indians,they would have heard of Henna lol
The Byzantine Greeks also painted their frescoes(some of which were porn back then lol) as nordid women,despite nordic women being less than 5% of women there.
In cross cultural studies,lighter women-but not men-are considered the standard of beauty in cultures untouched by european exposure.
I have admitted here before that as a small child,I did only like the blonde,redhaired and brown haired little girls in my class,and loved my nordid little gfs more than my other ones,which I just had to not be alone,but had no real attraction to.
I always felt bad about this.Even my mother used to say that as a kid if a Tall Blonde walked by I would run and touch her legs,but no other type of woman(darker woman).I have always gotten hard from very tall women with long legs too.
Is this Genetic?Is there something in darker men,but not lighter men that make us Simp over Nordid women?