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[NoJo]

Shortly after discovering this site I started writing in the humour and satire category. I then spent a few years in the mind control category, where my (usually female domination) stories sat most comfortably.

There are a few categories I could never "get", except by thinking chacun a son gout: One of those categories was Incest/Taboo.

But I'm beginning to get it now.

Being sexually attracted to a family member is easy to understand -- I've had the hots for my first cousin all my life ,and my stepdaughters are cute and sexy. I can imagine sex with them -- like I can also imagine killing the guy next door who runs the engine of his car too long, or stealing money from my work.

People like stories that give an outlet for suppressed desires. It might even prevent them acting out on them.

But incest has a dimension that I find fascinating, and it's centred on one word:

Love.

In incestuous feelings the tension and overlap between the different "types" of love is manifest starkly.


The tension is clear, in the euphemism "Erotica" itself: Originally meaning "desire", Eros is now the God of "Love".


The "dangerous" aspect of incest, because of its illicit nature, isn't that interesting to me, but I do get why that adds spice to the fantasy for some people.

 

[lovecraft68]

Ah, you have seen the light.

People who are not fond of the I/T category just think its sick and full of stories where a mother sees her son masturbating and says, hey, I'll hop on that.

Now...those stories do exist, but for everything here the keyword is fantasy.

But many taboo stories, especially most of the ones I write have the angle of being conflicted with loving the one person you're told you can't.

The appeal is rules are made to be broken and temptation. The apple, the box, all things in all mythos we're told not to touch, we touch. We always seek what's not right for us.

Married men and women should be off limits, but isn't it an extra thrill for some people to sleep with one? Why do women love the bad boy? They know they shouldn't, they know that outside of romance novels Bad boys are rarely redeemable and they lead to pain suffering and abuse and ruined lives, but sane women will still heed that call.

Incest is the ultimate line you can cross as far as sex goes and that means emotionally as well. My personal thing is bro/sis romances. Sibs are everything to each other, sibs, best friends, partners in crime, confidants, and growing up they are your first view of the opposite sex.

Those stories can't be written here obviously, but contact between sib is far more common than prigs want to think even to the cliched "show me yours I'll..." most of it ends up being harmless, its curiosity, but in cases where the wires are a little crossed and there is emotions to go with the physical, I can that forbidden romance being perfectly believable.

I always mention however, that this is fantasy, and although I'm sure there are some cases of loving incestuous couples, we know incest in the real world is usually abuse, rape, and nothing good about it.

People's knee jerk reaction to I/T is that reaction. Its sick! They don't get that what's here is 18+ consensual family fun, and even romance. BTW that same person saying how sick it is loves them some VC Andrews, Game of Thrones, Niptuck and all the shows/movies and mainstream novels that have used incest as a plot device.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

I write a lot in I/T (although I'd prefer my Alexaverse to be in Romance where I had it, some Pakled apparently threw a tantrum and got it moved), and generally I downplay the negative aspects of it, such as abuse and trauma. I refer to Genetic Sexual Attraction, which is quite common.

While you'll get the occasional tight-ass who is angry that things don't conform to from reality, 90% of readers want the incestuous unions to be happy and full of wankable sex. Aside from writing for you, that's what is most important, I think.

 

[lovecraft68]

I write a lot in I/T (although I'd prefer my Alexaverse to be in Romance where I had it, some Pakled apparently threw a tantrum and got it moved), and generally I downplay the negative aspects of it, such as abuse and trauma. I refer to Genetic Sexual Attraction, which is quite common.

While you'll get the occasional tight-ass who is angry that things don't conform to from reality, 90% of readers want the incestuous unions to be happy and full of wankable sex. Aside from writing for you, that's what is most important, I think.

It may have been the site that moved the story from romance to taboo, you never know.

I always tell people the only way to really get flamed by readers in the I/T category is to put non con into a story.

I used to get crap for a story where the brother and sister engaged in rough consensual BDSM style sex and they were both enjoying it. Someone sent a comment "That, sir, is know way for a loving brother to treat his beautiful sister!"

 

[SisterJezabel]

I never really understood the category and avoided it until I came across this amazing story.

Perhaps part of it is many of the Lit readership are perhaps reading to escape their own boring lives and/or sex lives and dream of doing something different. They can differentiate between fantasy and reality. Others may have amazing sex lives and backstories and are less able to see the fantasy/reality differences. Others may be a little of column a, little column b.

There will always be some who see things differently than others, doesn't make them wrong.

 

[lovecraft68]

I never really understood the category and avoided it until I came across this amazing story.

Perhaps part of it is many of the Lit readership are perhaps reading to escape their own boring lives and/or sex lives and dream of doing something different. They can differentiate between fantasy and reality. Others may have amazing sex lives and backstories and are less able to see the fantasy/reality differences. Others may be a little of column a, little column b.

There will always be some who see things differently than others, doesn't make them wrong.

Paco Fear has two straight up brother sister stories Words on Skin and Stolen kisses that are amazing, they capture the love as much as the lust and I know its hard for most people to equate this word with the category, but heartwarming.

He has another that's a sci fi/taboo crossover featuring two sisters. The story has a H a W and a green E...its the only incest story I've ever seen with a green E as Laurel is not a fan of the genre personally

Words on Skin was the first taboo story I read here. Up until then my experience reading taboo was from those nasty 60's paperbacks written by anonymous and there was nothing romantic in those, in fact many had non con themes, and I never liked those, so to come here and find that people do write and read the sweeter more emotional stories was what sold me on posting here