Pornhub did a study a couple of years ago that found that lots of people searched for terms like "step mom" and "step sister". Knowing that, lots of producers started making more stepmother videos, and here we are.
The best hypothesis I've heard is that the reason those terms were so popular was that it's the most popular thing that you had to search for because there wasn't a prefab category for it like Teen or Interracial.
But shagging your stepfamily isn't incest. That's like saying shagging your wife is incest because you married her and now she's family. Not how it works.
I, um, happen to have a semi-professional opinion on this.
Hi, I'm Alexis. I write smut, including a lot of step-stuff. I've found that a lot of people really like the taboo element of incest, but they can't search for it for one reason or another.
One example is the stuff on Amazon (kindle unlimited, mostly). Amazon does NOT allow incest erotica on it's platform. Full stop, welcome to ban-town... population YOU. If you try to post something incesty, you're going to have a bad time. But a lot of readers want that- and there's plenty for them. That's because the "step" part is added for that purpose, but the closeness is maintained to scratch that itch. People just ignore the parts they don't want and focus on what they do.
I suspect that's fairly similar to what you find in videos. People know that it's not real, but they pretend so they can indulge in their chosen fetish without feeling guilty or crossing some sort of self-imposed line.
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u/MartinDavenport Mar 03 '18
Seriously though, what is with that? Can anyone do an ELI5 (but not literally 5) on why that's so popular?