Summa Cum Libido

oediplex

Virgin
Joined
Jun 9, 2001
Posts
8
SUMMA CUM LIBIDO

QUALITY ORIGINAL STORIES OF
MOTHER / SON INCEST
IT’S MORE THAN JUST LUST

My works are classically dirty stories, full of sex and sin. It is also classy writing, educated and witty. Perhaps they may even contain a few gems that will become erotic classics!

WHY READ MY STORIES?

You want to be mentally stimulated to arousal by reading stories that graphically depict sexual action featuring a very specific consanguine relationship.

You are looking for new nasty imagery to create that special buzz of intense turn-on, leading to a climax while thinking about a son screwing his mother.

You get off with incest porn that is about getting it on with your mom.

You came because one of my other tales of getting mother’s tail made you cum.

Honestly, nobody is reading this material because its quality literature. However if the erotic writing is well composed the reader will be transposed to a cathartic release, cum to a climax as the action of the story peaks, so to speak That is why some folks will want to read mymwriting, to get off. That’s okay, I aim for that.

But I hope to entertain the brain, as well as stir up erogenous feelings and stimulate the reader’s gonads. Just as Hefner showed that there was a market for entertainment that combined intelligent articles on modern culture and graphic material, so too some of my stuff is a thinking man’s porn. Its better getting off when the light goes on and you get the joke or unique concept in the tales of family fun you find in those pages.

Meanwhile, remember that fantasy allows the reader to imagine a different time, perhaps another decade past, or the future when one is older. Morals were different in the past, people stayed innocent longer, lost their virginity much later than nowadays. Of course the reader is welcome to change details of my tales as they like: hair color, bust size, names, ages sometimes even; the better to reflect the fantasy in their head. In other words, I don’t need to give a ‘wink and a nod’ to my fans to figure out how to make the narrative best suit their individual tastes.

THESE NAUGHTY NARRATIVES SHOULD BE CENSORED, BANNED, BURNED
SOME SAY, EVEN THO’

SUMMA CUM LIBIDO does not celebrate, nor advocate incest; rather the author recognizing some others like himself also fantasize about incest, make their desires into a fetish even. Their actual desire is for an imaginary experience of unsanctioned, unsanctified sex with a close relative. This is what drives them to seek and consume the literature which paints that scene in their head. It is the porno skin-flick that gets made with the reader in the lead role - or led to bed perhaps, depending on who is seducing whom.

Once the rest of the world understands that we (including the men of Rumania) don’t really want to fuck our actual mothers; not any more than as kids we wanted to kill somebody when we played war; not any more than we want to inflict real pain when there is adult role-playing of a shady sort of grey. Fantasy moms are prettier and sexier [and far more willing] than true mothers in general. You want to risk your relationship with your mom just to see if she is feeling frisky enough to fool around with you. DO YOU WANT TO BE SPANKED YOUNG MAN? - That’s a different kind of dirty story.

So we wannabe motherfuckers are much more interested in our dream mommy than the broad who’s crabbed at us to clean our room, bitched at us to take out the garbage, and with power over things like car keys. You don’t want your ma turning into a bear like in ‘Brave’. Fantasy is safer and always has a happy ending, unlike reality which is much more messy. Everybody has their own little kink in their individual psychology, well this is ours - however we ended up like this, we are happy.

So - may we read our naughty stories in private? They’re very personal, and unless you share the same bend in your sexual psyche you’d likely be turned off. So please close the door, and leave us to our personal business with lube and tissues.

The Risqué Writer’s Rule

Some may decry the confections,
That are my tales for heads and hearts;
Yet despite their imperfections,
They also affect the lower parts;
Remember it’s just erotica,
Never meant to be fine arts!

8==3~


REDEAMING VALUES, COMMUNITY STANDARDS,
AND THE TABOO OF INCEST
Why the MILF phenomenon is growing

There is nothing original under the sun (or moon) about sin, certainly nothing is hidden from God. The “Original Sin” of Eve, followed close behind by Adam [though not in doggie-fashion], was disobedience of the Creator; not being disrobed nor even discovering sex. After all, the Lord had created them male and female, declaring that a division of species into two types which produced genetic variation and evolution was a good thing. Creatures that could reproduce themselves saved the Almighty an almighty lot of work.

Societal strictures on consanguine relations, i. e. incest, are quite universal in human cultures worldwide, and have been from earliest times. Still specific prohibitions were oft suspended for a variety of reasons (to keep royal bloodlines ‘pure’ for instance). But if a modern person who did not follow the Old Testament in fine detail as a guide to morality (Ten Commandments - okay, kosher laws not so much) looked at incest as an ethical issue of psychological consequences, what conclusions might they reach about the subject?

In murder mysteries the bad guys get caught and punished, usually. But sex is a much murkier sort of moral mix, much less the morass of the mass media on the subjects that used to be taboo. Where you draw the line moves with the passing of the ages. Once upon a time Rob and Laura Petrie could not share a bed, must not say the word pregnant, would never have a married gay brother who adopted a child, nor an inter-racial un-married couple as neighbors, never be seen with full frontal nudity (like on HBO); they had to go to Las Vegas not Atlantic City to get to a casino, and could never be sponsored by birth-control pills or condoms or Viagra.

If today things are different, tomorrow will see change once more, as the pendulum always keeps swinging. As do people, we’ve been swingers since we were living in the trees, just ask the Bonobos what morals they have developed. Of course we’ve evolved - well, it’s a learning curve. Look at the subject of incest; it is currently quite popular on TV. Incest has been a plot point from “Game of Thrones” to “Boardwalk Empire” to “Arrested Development” to “Bates Motel” ( and I recall used in “Boston Legal as well).

Only crazy persons advocate actual incest. But so many people fantasize about the topic! It is one of the largest areas of Literotica. What does our culture say about such dreams? There is an unspoken acceptance of the existence of these desires. The term MILF has to do directly with the acknowledgement of this fact. We know the tragedies, [as Oedipus Rex was originally a tragedy remember] the victims tell their stories and it’s a pity such abuse happens.

On the other hand there are actual relations that have relations with one another with few if any negative consequences - abet it must be the lesser percentage of them. I have been in contact with a few such over the years, such as Tom Hathaway who wrote a true biography of his long time love affair with his mother called, “Taboo: A Memoir”. Just as the potential for harm of either person is inherent in actual incest, any distress that these fantasies inflict on the reader is not necessarily a given conclusion. Robert Fliess, a well respected psychoanalist after years of experience concluded that "no one is ever made sick by his fantasies”.

In my correspondence over the years I have pointed out that fantasy is much better than reality. In fantasy you can seduce who you want, and they will succumb (suck-cum?); lose your virginity time and again; have no jealous rivals (they are written out of the plot - Laius laid to rest earlier). There will be the best timing to have a secret liaison; your dream lover doesn’t mind doing what your real partner might find objectionable; and pregnancy only occurs if desired (the ultimate birth-control!). All this and you can vary the details to suit your personal kinkiness to boot - whether you like leather, toys or whatever.

After all, who reads these fantasies? Who are they written for? I doubt many moms are interested in their sons - so not much of a fan base there. What about sons - how young are the wannabe-motherfuckers? When does that start? Puberty? Of all the incest that does happen, and incest does certainly happen, sex between a mother and son occurs the least often.

One can speculate on the reasons that the relations between family members happen and the incidences might be isolated occasions or more long term. There are most certainly bad cases of abuse which are easily recognized; yet in some isolated case (such as sex between grown siblings) maybe the contact caused little damage. But as incest is so often associated with the more common bad outcomes (understandably so), the uncommon good or neutral consequences of family liaisons are suppressed as well.

Modern psychologists know that all little boys go through an "Oedipal Stage" where they are jealous of their mother's affections, but is not necessarily directly a sexual focus or even overt physically. There are indications that unsuccessful completion of this stage of natural childhood development results in the condition called by the term "Oedipus Complex". The clinical definition is easily looked up, but its a form of fixation on the maternal love of your mother herself. The concern is that the Complex hinders the son’s relationship with other women. This is especially an important factor for the ultimate independence of the youth, to say nothing of what most mother's dream of - grandchildren. Most of the males to manage to cut the apron-strings, mate and to produce offspring, and life goes on as usual.

But sometimes later in life for some reasons, in the wide spread of human variation, some men develop a sexual desire for maternal love of their mother herself. While having a perfectly "normal life" sexually, into their mix of what turns them on is this kind of Oedipal fetish, which mostly is lived out in fantasy, the Mother figure as sex object, either symbolically or personal. This secondary and later Oedipal hunger drives the emotional need to return to mommy through a fantasy and is fed/satisfied by consuming fictional accounts of such encounters.

Most of the emails I get are from quite mature males. They tend to have a great deal of respect for their mothers and would never impose their fantasy on her, knowing that she would never even consider it. Oft it is more the mothering idea than necessarily their actual mom that is the turn-on. These stories of mine are fantasies for guys who have a second oedipal surge of feelings for some reason. (But moms are welcome to cum along too.)

What do the readers look for in these tales? These stories are written to both stimulate the mind as well as the body. Sure you read to get off, but I also write to make you think, laugh, and not have to make a mess of your life by doing something dumb like alienating your mother by trying to seduce her. Hopefully it’s good-nography - not poor-nography. While of course a beautiful love affair is the ideal, reality is seldom as neat, love is messy. As the French say, 'is that not so?’

If some of the obvious things are not standing as impediments such as fathers or second husbands, possibility of pregnancy, etc.; then there might possibly be a physical connection without the negative consequences. As well as on other levels of love which already exist between mother and son, sex is another way to express the love that is bonding them. The best definition of what this sort of incestuous love is comes from someone called Jane. "Incest is an attempt to transfer [at least in one's imagination) sweet physical joy into an already existing strong psychological bond which is essentially unselfish, affectionate and permanent."

We as a society have come to accept the anti-hero as the protagonist of the stories we watch. Robin Hood was not condemned by the reader for his crimes; after all he was stealing from the ‘one-percenters’ and giving it to the poor. So too, today we have few qualms about watching an episode of Dexter and not being too squeamish over a serial killer. Shades of Joseph Fletcher and ‘Situation Ethics’; where do you draw the line?

Fantasies and fictions are not real, they may or may not entertain, teach, or be artistic, they may be written for many reasons, perhaps for a unique purpose. Their internal consistencies may allow outrageous outcomes and otherwise end in ways not true to life. The author is God of that universe; judge the writer for the ideas - not the characters for their actions. Critique the wordsmith; don’t decry his ‘Dorian Grey’. Portraitures in literature are creatures of pen on paper. To my thinking, Lolita left a lot to be desired; that lot was left to your imagination. Was what you imagined naughty? Of course. Were you naughty for thinking it? Why were you reading it anyway?

Why do we like the naughty scenes in movies? Romantic novels are quite graphic now days. IS FANTASY A SIN? Are our fantasies sinning in our heart, temptation manifest in the imagination? Can we be condemned for our thoughts, when we do not put what we know to be wrong into action? Fifty shades of grey there! Even if you live like a monk, you still have that monkey biology. The daughters of Lot asked a question, ‘what to do when the only solution is sex with someone ordinarily off limits?’ The answer is that the limits are suspended.

In these pages, I, as author/god, do declare the limits suspended in order to explore where the mind will go, and the body is not allowed. 8==3~
 
SUMMA CUM LIBIDO

QUALITY ORIGINAL STORIES OF
MOTHER / SON INCEST
IT’S MORE THAN JUST LUST

My works are classically dirty stories, full of sex and sin. It is also classy writing, educated and witty. Perhaps they may even contain a few gems that will become erotic classics!

WHY READ MY STORIES?

You want to be mentally stimulated to arousal by reading stories that graphically depict sexual action featuring a very specific consanguine relationship.

You are looking for new nasty imagery to create that special buzz of intense turn-on, leading to a climax while thinking about a son screwing his mother.

You get off with incest porn that is about getting it on with your mom.

You came because one of my other tales of getting mother’s tail made you cum.

Honestly, nobody is reading this material because its quality literature. However if the erotic writing is well composed the reader will be transposed to a cathartic release, cum to a climax as the action of the story peaks, so to speak That is why some folks will want to read mymwriting, to get off. That’s okay, I aim for that.

But I hope to entertain the brain, as well as stir up erogenous feelings and stimulate the reader’s gonads. Just as Hefner showed that there was a market for entertainment that combined intelligent articles on modern culture and graphic material, so too some of my stuff is a thinking man’s porn. Its better getting off when the light goes on and you get the joke or unique concept in the tales of family fun you find in those pages.

Meanwhile, remember that fantasy allows the reader to imagine a different time, perhaps another decade past, or the future when one is older. Morals were different in the past, people stayed innocent longer, lost their virginity much later than nowadays. Of course the reader is welcome to change details of my tales as they like: hair color, bust size, names, ages sometimes even; the better to reflect the fantasy in their head. In other words, I don’t need to give a ‘wink and a nod’ to my fans to figure out how to make the narrative best suit their individual tastes.

THESE NAUGHTY NARRATIVES SHOULD BE CENSORED, BANNED, BURNED
SOME SAY, EVEN THO’

SUMMA CUM LIBIDO does not celebrate, nor advocate incest; rather the author recognizing some others like himself also fantasize about incest, make their desires into a fetish even. Their actual desire is for an imaginary experience of unsanctioned, unsanctified sex with a close relative. This is what drives them to seek and consume the literature which paints that scene in their head. It is the porno skin-flick that gets made with the reader in the lead role - or led to bed perhaps, depending on who is seducing whom.

Once the rest of the world understands that we (including the men of Rumania) don’t really want to fuck our actual mothers; not any more than as kids we wanted to kill somebody when we played war; not any more than we want to inflict real pain when there is adult role-playing of a shady sort of grey. Fantasy moms are prettier and sexier [and far more willing] than true mothers in general. You want to risk your relationship with your mom just to see if she is feeling frisky enough to fool around with you. DO YOU WANT TO BE SPANKED YOUNG MAN? - That’s a different kind of dirty story.

So we wannabe motherfuckers are much more interested in our dream mommy than the broad who’s crabbed at us to clean our room, bitched at us to take out the garbage, and with power over things like car keys. You don’t want your ma turning into a bear like in ‘Brave’. Fantasy is safer and always has a happy ending, unlike reality which is much more messy. Everybody has their own little kink in their individual psychology, well this is ours - however we ended up like this, we are happy.

So - may we read our naughty stories in private? They’re very personal, and unless you share the same bend in your sexual psyche you’d likely be turned off. So please close the door, and leave us to our personal business with lube and tissues.

The Risqué Writer’s Rule

Some may decry the confections,
That are my tales for heads and hearts;
Yet despite their imperfections,
They also affect the lower parts;
Remember it’s just erotica,
Never meant to be fine arts!

8==3~


REDEAMING VALUES, COMMUNITY STANDARDS,
AND THE TABOO OF INCEST
Why the MILF phenomenon is growing

There is nothing original under the sun (or moon) about sin, certainly nothing is hidden from God. The “Original Sin” of Eve, followed close behind by Adam [though not in doggie-fashion], was disobedience of the Creator; not being disrobed nor even discovering sex. After all, the Lord had created them male and female, declaring that a division of species into two types which produced genetic variation and evolution was a good thing. Creatures that could reproduce themselves saved the Almighty an almighty lot of work.

Societal strictures on consanguine relations, i. e. incest, are quite universal in human cultures worldwide, and have been from earliest times. Still specific prohibitions were oft suspended for a variety of reasons (to keep royal bloodlines ‘pure’ for instance). But if a modern person who did not follow the Old Testament in fine detail as a guide to morality (Ten Commandments - okay, kosher laws not so much) looked at incest as an ethical issue of psychological consequences, what conclusions might they reach about the subject?

In murder mysteries the bad guys get caught and punished, usually. But sex is a much murkier sort of moral mix, much less the morass of the mass media on the subjects that used to be taboo. Where you draw the line moves with the passing of the ages. Once upon a time Rob and Laura Petrie could not share a bed, must not say the word pregnant, would never have a married gay brother who adopted a child, nor an inter-racial un-married couple as neighbors, never be seen with full frontal nudity (like on HBO); they had to go to Las Vegas not Atlantic City to get to a casino, and could never be sponsored by birth-control pills or condoms or Viagra.

If today things are different, tomorrow will see change once more, as the pendulum always keeps swinging. As do people, we’ve been swingers since we were living in the trees, just ask the Bonobos what morals they have developed. Of course we’ve evolved - well, it’s a learning curve. Look at the subject of incest; it is currently quite popular on TV. Incest has been a plot point from “Game of Thrones” to “Boardwalk Empire” to “Arrested Development” to “Bates Motel” ( and I recall used in “Boston Legal as well).

Only crazy persons advocate actual incest. But so many people fantasize about the topic! It is one of the largest areas of Literotica. What does our culture say about such dreams? There is an unspoken acceptance of the existence of these desires. The term MILF has to do directly with the acknowledgement of this fact. We know the tragedies, [as Oedipus Rex was originally a tragedy remember] the victims tell their stories and it’s a pity such abuse happens.

On the other hand there are actual relations that have relations with one another with few if any negative consequences - abet it must be the lesser percentage of them. I have been in contact with a few such over the years, such as Tom Hathaway who wrote a true biography of his long time love affair with his mother called, “Taboo: A Memoir”. Just as the potential for harm of either person is inherent in actual incest, any distress that these fantasies inflict on the reader is not necessarily a given conclusion. Robert Fliess, a well respected psychoanalist after years of experience concluded that "no one is ever made sick by his fantasies”.

In my correspondence over the years I have pointed out that fantasy is much better than reality. In fantasy you can seduce who you want, and they will succumb (suck-cum?); lose your virginity time and again; have no jealous rivals (they are written out of the plot - Laius laid to rest earlier). There will be the best timing to have a secret liaison; your dream lover doesn’t mind doing what your real partner might find objectionable; and pregnancy only occurs if desired (the ultimate birth-control!). All this and you can vary the details to suit your personal kinkiness to boot - whether you like leather, toys or whatever.

After all, who reads these fantasies? Who are they written for? I doubt many moms are interested in their sons - so not much of a fan base there. What about sons - how young are the wannabe-motherfuckers? When does that start? Puberty? Of all the incest that does happen, and incest does certainly happen, sex between a mother and son occurs the least often.

One can speculate on the reasons that the relations between family members happen and the incidences might be isolated occasions or more long term. There are most certainly bad cases of abuse which are easily recognized; yet in some isolated case (such as sex between grown siblings) maybe the contact caused little damage. But as incest is so often associated with the more common bad outcomes (understandably so), the uncommon good or neutral consequences of family liaisons are suppressed as well.

Modern psychologists know that all little boys go through an "Oedipal Stage" where they are jealous of their mother's affections, but is not necessarily directly a sexual focus or even overt physically. There are indications that unsuccessful completion of this stage of natural childhood development results in the condition called by the term "Oedipus Complex". The clinical definition is easily looked up, but its a form of fixation on the maternal love of your mother herself. The concern is that the Complex hinders the son’s relationship with other women. This is especially an important factor for the ultimate independence of the youth, to say nothing of what most mother's dream of - grandchildren. Most of the males to manage to cut the apron-strings, mate and to produce offspring, and life goes on as usual.

But sometimes later in life for some reasons, in the wide spread of human variation, some men develop a sexual desire for maternal love of their mother herself. While having a perfectly "normal life" sexually, into their mix of what turns them on is this kind of Oedipal fetish, which mostly is lived out in fantasy, the Mother figure as sex object, either symbolically or personal. This secondary and later Oedipal hunger drives the emotional need to return to mommy through a fantasy and is fed/satisfied by consuming fictional accounts of such encounters.

Most of the emails I get are from quite mature males. They tend to have a great deal of respect for their mothers and would never impose their fantasy on her, knowing that she would never even consider it. Oft it is more the mothering idea than necessarily their actual mom that is the turn-on. These stories of mine are fantasies for guys who have a second oedipal surge of feelings for some reason. (But moms are welcome to cum along too.)

What do the readers look for in these tales? These stories are written to both stimulate the mind as well as the body. Sure you read to get off, but I also write to make you think, laugh, and not have to make a mess of your life by doing something dumb like alienating your mother by trying to seduce her. Hopefully it’s good-nography - not poor-nography. While of course a beautiful love affair is the ideal, reality is seldom as neat, love is messy. As the French say, 'is that not so?’

If some of the obvious things are not standing as impediments such as fathers or second husbands, possibility of pregnancy, etc.; then there might possibly be a physical connection without the negative consequences. As well as on other levels of love which already exist between mother and son, sex is another way to express the love that is bonding them. The best definition of what this sort of incestuous love is comes from someone called Jane. "Incest is an attempt to transfer [at least in one's imagination) sweet physical joy into an already existing strong psychological bond which is essentially unselfish, affectionate and permanent."

We as a society have come to accept the anti-hero as the protagonist of the stories we watch. Robin Hood was not condemned by the reader for his crimes; after all he was stealing from the ‘one-percenters’ and giving it to the poor. So too, today we have few qualms about watching an episode of Dexter and not being too squeamish over a serial killer. Shades of Joseph Fletcher and ‘Situation Ethics’; where do you draw the line?

Fantasies and fictions are not real, they may or may not entertain, teach, or be artistic, they may be written for many reasons, perhaps for a unique purpose. Their internal consistencies may allow outrageous outcomes and otherwise end in ways not true to life. The author is God of that universe; judge the writer for the ideas - not the characters for their actions. Critique the wordsmith; don’t decry his ‘Dorian Grey’. Portraitures in literature are creatures of pen on paper. To my thinking, Lolita left a lot to be desired; that lot was left to your imagination. Was what you imagined naughty? Of course. Were you naughty for thinking it? Why were you reading it anyway?

Why do we like the naughty scenes in movies? Romantic novels are quite graphic now days. IS FANTASY A SIN? Are our fantasies sinning in our heart, temptation manifest in the imagination? Can we be condemned for our thoughts, when we do not put what we know to be wrong into action? Fifty shades of grey there! Even if you live like a monk, you still have that monkey biology. The daughters of Lot asked a question, ‘what to do when the only solution is sex with someone ordinarily off limits?’ The answer is that the limits are suspended.

In these pages, I, as author/god, do declare the limits suspended in order to explore where the mind will go, and the body is not allowed. 8==3~
Huh??
 
WTF ?

I suspect that the AH is not really the place for this.

I think it fits in the sense he's talking about stories and what motivates that genre and why people read them and at least its intelligently written and not one of the endless "I fucked mommy when I was....." posts that inundate the fetish boards.

This author was "huge" here in that genre awhile back,. but pulled their stories when they were being stolen and sold. He was mentioned in an article about indy authors having their work plagiarized as was Bostonfictionwriter(under what name at the time I forget)

Guess he's started putting his work back up again.

Again I think the post is well written with valid points, but for me I don't feel the need to justify my kink to that degree. I don't take my mother/son stories all that seriously here, but they seem to go over pretty well so that's all that matters, I'm not concerned with reader motivations.
 
Last edited:
Gee, I think it's more than just a bit harsh to go 'huh/wtf.'

If not in the AH then where?

Actually I really liked the essay.

When you compare it with the absolute crap and dribble that comes from Wasisface Eszterhas whenever he talks about his one-hit wonder that scored because the director was smarter than average, this piece stands out head and shoulders above, frankly.

Not going to totally go along with everything he's said, but so what. A difference of opinion makes the betting interesting.

So far I've only read one of the OP's stories - but I'll give them a go because I personally always appreciate the psychology insights of others; I already know everything that I know!!

I don't know what other people know.

To some extent the essay makes more sense to me than 'just stories,' because stories can often veer into the exploitational purely for sake of the writer wanting to turn the reader - ANY reader - on.

And in fact I'd prefer to so much much more of this type of essay writing here because there are some AMAZING issues that can be examined by writers dealing with sex or erotics or direct porn. At a little objective distance from the storytelling, deep and nuanced understandings about human personalities and behaviours are possessed by quite a number of writers, I think, but they rarely get discussed like a symposium of shrinks might talk about their stock-in-trade.

In my book, every writer of erotic material in particular IS a Catherine Tramell, to some extent. The movie and the movie character, by co-incidence of the actual plot of that flick, blurrs the line between SEX and EROTICA - and psychology and maybe socio-pathic murder. 'Catherine Tramell' is an erotic figure, as well as a writer (in the movie) as well as a psychologist and possible killer.

Lit-E writers are erotic personalities (best word I can find on the spur of the moment), as well as semi-professional psychologists, and as deus ex libris, the writer can kill their creations, and er, some of us here could well be psychopaths too!

I'd love to hear more about the psychological beliefs or insights of other writers, or the magical doctrines.
 
Hmm. That reads like a New York Times article - long on words and short on message. Thankfully, skipping to the last 'graph works in this case, too. 😛
 
It IS a necro thread, although I think the OP's point, if long-windedly stated, was interesting. So I'm going to respond to GoldenCompulsion's comment, which resuscitated the thread.

I agree. I think the Freudian interpretation of the popularity of incest stories is mostly bunk. Not for everyone! I know from some of my readers' comments that it's part of it.

But my theory of the appeal of incest, and of other kinks, boils down to this: we like it because it's naughty. We like our sex naughty. And the naughtier the better. It's not much more complicated than that. We live in a liberalized world where fewer and fewer things are naughty, but sex with Mom is always naughty! That's what gives the stories their zing.

I concur with the original poster's comment about writers having the god/author complex. I do! I truly enjoy writing about worlds that don't have to abide by the rules of the real world, where people do things they usually wouldn't do in this world, and that they really shouldn't do in the real world. I like having that control. I find aesthetic interest in writing about subjects on the edge. I think others do, too, although it seems to be a hard thing for people to admit to themselves.
 
I'm just proud of the fact that we have a psychologist here at lit that eclipses one of the OG's of the profession. .
 
Back
Top