![]() ![]() People are attracted to taboos for a variety of reasons, including sometimes life experience, but certainly many are, as you put it, turned on by the naughtiness and transgression. Fantasies aren’t necessarily a means they are an end. In this scenario, watching becomes its own kind of play that requires a suspension of disbelief because the disbelief is built right into the viewing experience.įantasies themselves can be safe spaces to explore things we wouldn’t otherwise be comfortable with actually participating in. That’s to say that the vast majority of viewers know that they’re not watching actual family members and that no one involved is under 18 because of regulations on porn production. Part of the draw of this kind of porn is the fantasy, but it’s also the safety by which said fantasy can be explored. Studies about porn’s influence on sexual violence have yielded conflicting results (I dove into it a bit in this previous column), but it’s important to keep in mind that things like incest and rape have been around long before porn. There simply aren’t enough studies for us to draw firm conclusions about whether incest porn leads to actual incest, but my hunch is that it largely doesn’t. ![]() It’s surely impossible to say just how much of a hand popular culture has in shaping culture culture, especially when it comes to something as underreported as abuse. Am I contributing to a culture of abuse by sometimes getting off to an adult “teenage son” stumbling upon his hot, horny “mom” trapped in the dryer? (She insisted she was not an abuse victim herself, though, and that it’s just something she feels strongly about.) I didn’t know what to say. My friend says incest is much more common than most people think and that porn normalizes it. I said that statistically, of course, some viewers are people with genuine incest fantasies about real-life family members, but that those people are a tiny fraction of the population and that “step” porn isn’t making mentally healthy people want to have sex with their parents or siblings. (I was not.) My contention was that I wasn’t a deviant (again, these videos are obviously being watched by millions of people) and that people who watch this kind of porn are not really into incest, but turned on by the naughtiness and transgression. She basically said she thought I might need therapy and probed me about whether I’d been sexually abused as a child. I mentioned that I sometimes found the “stepfamily” videos that are all over every porn site pretty hot. It’s anonymous!Ĭan you please settle an argument between my friend and me (both 21F)? We recently had a late-night discussion about sex and porn. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column.
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