Apologies for title spelling errors. Apparently the title box doesn’t arouse autocomplete or spell check.

Seriously. For my entire life I’ve been able to look at any random porn site and know I wasn’t going to see various things : children, rape, insest, scat, etc etc.

When the fuck did incest porn become acceptable? Let alone mainstream?

There’s not even an opinion to NOT see it. (but I’m given the option to not see gay porn)

Like. I don’t care that it exists. I’m not shaming anyone for being into it but

I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT ON MY FUCKING PORN LISTS

  • Hotspur
    14·
    5 months ago

    I feel like originally it was a semi-safe taboo to break that made a standard porn setup seem more forbidden/risqué. It always seemed weird, like how many people have step siblings that also fantasize about them sexually, how big could this be? But it just kept on coming, so to speak.

    Now I think it’s just a meme/SEO thing, where you have to include it even if the video is not even pretending to be about that. Also it happened around the same time that websites were pushing/pivoting into more content creator type things, and so it’s probably related to that as well. Like the annoying face+exaggerated reaction thing on YouTube…

    Either way, always seemed whacky that everything the sites serve is almost completely step-porn on the front page.

      • admiralteal@kbin.social
        2·
        5 months ago

        I am skeptical that this is all about some taboo. To start with, modern incest taboos are really weird. You peel away the layers and they go all kinds of very uncomfortable places for people. And, for some reason, the discussions almost always TOTALLY elide over the fact that the biggest real-world issue with incest is the fact that real-world incest is almost always based on fucked up familial power dynamics resulting in sexual assault/rape of the young and vulnerable.

        The porn step-sibling stuff, I think, is mostly just bad writing. It is a convenient way to get otherwise-platonic adults in close quarters that generates sexual situations. It’s also a trope that lets you just skip any actual narrative-crafting. No different than all the absolutely ludicrous anime “locked in the gym storage room” tropes or that kind of shit. It’s just a hack writing way to skip to the part they want to film. It’s regular old hackery.

        I think the fact that people seem to prefer a hacky story to no story at all for porn speaks to something I quite like about human nature. Even the porn we want elevated a little beyond itself.