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Re:Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banne... by 47282847 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:05AM (#47231703)
I tend to agree with the perspective that this is a display of a desire to “reenact” and process personal and collective traumatic experiences (similar to violence in movies) on the one end, and the desire to repress and deny them on the other hand (position to ban). It reminds me of a psychology paper about whether BDSM practices are useful to process traumatic experiences or if the downsides prevail.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2024.2...

The question is, if we ban such “phantasies”, are we not merely strengthening repression and silencing of trauma, and by that perpetuating it. Or how do we go about sprinkling in a conscious awareness of why the urges exist to go deeper with them without the shame/blame to protect the original pain, rather than just continually repeating them, both as fantasy/role play and as real abuse.

I want to additionally mention but not link to the subreddits full of incest fantasy stories (or are they).

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Re:Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banne... by b450 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:26AM (#47231983)
I really don't know anything about it, but I'd speculate that the fantasy is plain old 'misattribution of arousal'. The heart gets pounding at the idea of violating the taboo against incest, and that bodily state is interpreted as sexual arousal. Not that I'm suggesting that there is just one explanation of something as complicated as this.
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Re:Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banne... by DaedalusII on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:30AM (#47232026)
you are both correct, but what if there is no trauma?

two teenagers move into the same house because their parents started a relationship. they see each other little because both step-parents have shared custody arrangements. they have no biological connections whatsoever. four years later they are both 19, alone together a lot, et cetera. but simultaneously, this is a huge taboo, a betrayal of the parents, a great psychodrama

i knew one guy in college whose girlfriend cheated on him, with his biological father. a great betrayal, a great freudian cuckolding. what kind of strange fantasy will this man have now?

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