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Neo2199 t1_j0ck93z wrote

Reply to comment by gonzagylot00 in What’s With HBO’s Grossest Obsession, Incest? by Sisiwakanamaru

Couple years ago, there was an article on Vice talking about increasing popularity of incest porn in recent years.

Vice: How Incest Porn Is Making a Comeback - March 7, 2016

> Jeff Dillon, the vice president of business development of eLine.com (which handles popular porn hub GameLink), says that interest in fauxcest porn has increased by over 1,000 percent in the last five years. "This niche was really popular in the 70s and 80s," he says, noting the striking popularity of 1980 fauxcest feature Taboo—in which a sexually frustrated mother whose husband has recently left her ends up turning to her son, who, despite being asleep at the time, ultimately reciprocates—and other fauxcest films that were so unique, the public became fascinated.

> "But [fauxcest] faded out in the 90s," Dillon says, in part because incest stories are based on relationships between characters, and narrative in porn started to fade out of fashion. "I believe it went away in part because of the rise of B&B—big boobs and blonde hair. The 80s were the beginning of the glamorous porn superstars and contract studio stars. It led to many different genres of porn, many of which weren't story-driven."

> However, the past decade has seen a resurgence in narrative porn, setting the stage for a fauxcest comeback. "We've revisited a lot of older genres," Dillon says. "Parodies had their revival already, and now it's like producers and consumers are rediscovering the fauxcest genre, and it's back in style." Two years ago, adult studio Forbidden Fruit Films began exclusively featuring family role-play scenes. Millennial porn viewers—and especially women—have taken to the genre with a surprising appetite.

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milkysatan t1_j0clf2a wrote

This might sound weird but I wonder if part of the interest has to do with people seeking content with actors acting like they care about each other. There aren't a lot of porn genres that focus on characters who are even friends, let alone that love each other.

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hannahbaba t1_j0corg2 wrote

This is so oddly wholesome in a conversation about porn.

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Frost312 t1_j0cniqy wrote

Honestly, I like this take on it. Cause there was and still somewhat is, a huge "goreporn" and all its subsidiaries, on the other end of the spectrum.

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Neo2199 t1_j0cof5c wrote

Yeah, that's why 70s/80s porn movies are the best.

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Dry-Mortgage5063 t1_j0e2y52 wrote

Nah. I work tangential to the industry and interface directly with customers. They're into the incest.

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JustABiViking420 t1_j0fvpjj wrote

Im ngl I was sent a gay furry comic from the 90's that was the best porn I've ever read through mostly because the sex was limited to a handful of scenes and the rest was a really gripping story about coming out in college and accepting your sexuality. Idk how many people can say a porn comic legit made them cry because of how emotionally invested you get from the characters

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EnderGraff t1_j0cvvwt wrote

I’ve also heard it’s a really cheap way to add plot and taboo to a porno.

Like two or three lines of dialog and you’ve set the whole situation up to be something more than just people banging.

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Impossible-Will-8414 t1_j0e3qib wrote

It's fauxcest. A step relative is not in any way blood related, and it is not incest. Do any of these films show REAL incest? Such as, an actual mom and son? An actual brother and sister? No. They play it safe and show steps, and that does NOT COUNT as incest in any way.

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gonzagylot00 t1_j0d9hjq wrote

That's interesting.

I have to wonder also if the COVID years of people spending a lot of time at home resulted in more uh, interest, in incest porn.

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coletrain644 t1_j0ecwho wrote

It's also cheap as hell to make scene "taboo" in the definitive sense. Lots of people like to like things society says they shouldn't and it doesn't cost anything to make a scene taboo by adding a few extra words to a script.

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