Why so much incest in gaming/porn?

[_Inerfa]

Isn't that the beauty of the internet: being able to anonymously enjoy fetishes/topics that are shunned IRL?
Maybe the taboo also adds to the excitement.

Then again there is a big difference between enjoying something in a virtual/fantasy setting opposed to actually doing it IRL, just look at practically every mainstrain video games

[juzotogo]

It really seems popular nowadays. I wonder if it's a trend as its been said. Or perhaps a fetish many of the game creators share.
When I play those games I'll just pretend its a step relative or not even related. I don't like incest in real life and don't care to explorer it as a fantasy. ... to me it comes off as lazy and unimaginative. I mean you don't even need to leave your house or look far.

I wonder if the creators of the games actually have an interest or their just catering to interest.

[Mimailia]

... to me it comes off as lazy and unimaginative. I mean you don't even need to leave your house or look far.

You reminded me of an old joke (I live in the heart of backwoods/redneck America).

Seems a country boy came busting into his house late on his WEDDING night. His dad, somewhat shocked asked:
"Son what are you doing, you're supposed to be with your new bride."
The son replied: "Dad, she's a VIRGIN!"
And the dad says: "Well I don't blame you for leaving. If she ain't good enough for her own family, she sure as hell ain't good enough for my family!"

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[Skelaturi]

It really seems popular nowadays. I wonder if it's a trend as its been said. Or perhaps a fetish many of the game creators share.
When I play those games I'll just pretend its a step relative or not even related. I don't like incest in real life and don't care to explorer it as a fantasy. ... to me it comes off as lazy and unimaginative. I mean you don't even need to leave your house or look far.

I wonder if the creators of the games actually have an interest or their just catering to interest.

cater to interest, using daz 3d to create the models (usually a pirated version, but they rarely admit to that), put it in the easiest of all game engines; Rpgmaker (usually pirated as well), make a " page we shall not name" and rake in the cash without much effort. But if they really wanted to cater to interest: Get drawing skills, draw furries, make furrie game. $$$ ( for more $$$ make furrie based incest game)

[rkshooter]

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[Skelaturi]

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[Sid Valentine]

I like incest because (in theory) it should create additional barriers that have to be overcome before the sexy times. I've never really liked the whole 'want sex > get sex' quick progression of most porn stuff be it games, manga, or otherwise. I like there to be some build-up and resistance.

[wllwf]

Only a kind of sex fantasy. I do like incest sex in porn and games. But not really incest sex or in real life. I only can accept stepmom and stepson. Not real mother and son have sex. Stepparents and their children or step siblings having sex is also a taboo. People want to touch a taboo in fantasy. Just my 2 cents

[Mortze]

I do think that it is almost instinct to be cautious - to say the least - about the incest theme. I don't recall, in all history of mankind, that incest was a normal thing for anyone, save for the occasional elites that wanted to keep the "good blood" in the family. Pharaohs might have wed their sisters but the peasants living outside the castle didn't. The practice didn't took roots simply because Nature is against it. We all know the undesired offspring that result from such practices over time. It's a mater of survivability I read somewhere. Nature wanted the species to get the most differential genetic material possible, to adapt to its environment and challenges. If you keep it in the family you'll only have the family genes and any challenge that presents outside that genetic predisposition automatically eradicates that species.
I think that incest doesn't fall into the field where anyone should have a say though. Anyone is allowed to do what he wants. What I'm against is any sexual activity that is done without free and informed consent. Most incest possibilities fall in the later. But not all. I think people shouldn't take radical positions to everything, and look at things with some perspective.
I do find more comdemnable a rich husband that forces himself on his wife on the threat of leaving her penyless, than an adult mother that has intercourse with her adult son.
I find that there is radical evil in the first example and practically none in the second.

[Crane]

Sexual maturity comes with adulthood but sexual instinct is inborn. And since the first persons a baby lays his/her eyes on are his/her family members they become the first objects of his/her sexual subconcience. So it`s not that strange this part of subconscience becomes part of the fantasy. That`s why this taboo is so strong and so tempting. Its roots are very deep.

In my opinion the most dangerous effects of incest are not offspring mutations (having offsprings can be easily avoided) but ist social and psychological consequences. It would ruin our personal and social boundaries, all our social structure, our perception of the world, our social and personal values and so on.

If you want to know how incest and its effects were percepted in Antiquity you can (and perhaps you should) read Oedipus from Aeschylus or Sophocles whichever you prefer. None of the offsprings from a mother-son marriage has any physical or mental problem, but the entire family has a devasting painful shock. It`s true that two adults are considered mature to really know their desires but do they know what follows after? Its consequences not only on both of them but on the other members of family as well? That`s why even "consensual incest" is prohibited by society and by the law.

I don`t think "incestuous fantasy" itself is dangerous. But too much stimulation and the thin red line between reality and fantasy may disappear to some people. This ""not step-whatever" is actually much more dangerous because has the opposite effect on our fantasy: real famly members to be fantasized as "not step-whatever".

Saying that incest is so often seen in gaming/porn because is profitable. Most of the people want to play/watch this kind of fantasy. And where is demand there is supply. And with marketing help the demand is even generated.

[Greyelf]

In my opinion ... it's social and psychological consequences. It would ruin our personal and social boundaries, all our social structure, our perception of the world, our social and personal values and so on.
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It`s true that two adults are considered mature to really know their desires but do they know what follows after? Its consequences not only on both of them but on the other members of family as well? That`s why even "consensual incest" is prohibited by society and by the law.

I understand you are expressing your own opinions (and I am sure they are based on information rather than feelings) but both of the above are strong statements to make.

Could you explain (your opinion on) the differences between those statements about incestuous relationships, and similar statements (made by the general public) that have been made about interracial relationships, which at different times in the past have also been prohibited by both society and the law yet they have yet to cause the destroy of everything as we know it.

[Crane]

I`m sorry if i sounded a little "harsh" on the matter, not my intention.

But i don`t think interracial relationships is the right example to be matched with incest.
First, interracial relationships were/are taboo in some places, sometimes. But i can give you several examples during human kind history all over the globe race not even considered a factor. Can you find any time any place where/when incest was considered normal since the man moved out of the cave?
Egyptian pharaohs? They were considered Gods, not humans, and Gods had incest marriages in many old religions.

And second, interracial relationships were/are social taboo same as equal rights for women, for LGBTQ, for minority religions etc but not even close to incest relationships. That`s only my opinon, of course.

[MaxCarna]

2 things

First, I believe that exist a huge distance between play an incest game, and think about incest on real life. Basically because the characters are strangers, One thing is think about your mon, that you know since you born, 0% attraction , other thing is think about the neighbor's mon, think about watch something forbidden happening through the window. Is something that catch your attention. One thing that I believe that proves this logic, is that incest games's offer exploded, while I'm not seeing any cases on real life, on news or listening known people.

Second, I see also a huge distance in the type of incest :

1. When is about Father/Daughter and you play as the father, there is the corrupting, the dominating. Someone fragile in your custody, and you violate the convention of what you should do, your obligations. Is use a privileged position and take advantage of it, like the teacher and the 1student. I really dislike this type.

2. When is about Mother/Son and you play as the son, is about teasing, conquest in a twisted way. Usually the dynamic is increase the desire until reaches an unbearable level, where one mature women break all moral barriers to satisfy herself. Usually a straight or even religious woman, which turn the "sin" even bigger, the guilt after the action is normally explored. I think is about a huge desire, nonexistant on real life. Also about conquest, you get a male character in a privileged position, behind the intimacy wall, with privileged info, having phisical access to the most intimate places. Different from other fetishes like the plumber, the delivery guy, an so on. Almost like cheating in conquist, considering that she is a achievable strange woman from the player's point of view.
There is variations, like using magic, powers and so, or really naughty mature characters. Is possible to attenuate, using a aunt or teacher instead of the mother figure, I intend to use this resource on a future game.

[Rexxx]

I think that a taboo theme has always a great attraction, and only saying that some character have blood ties you have obtained this without effort on the story and above all is a game you are playing as someone other, for example if only 1% of the people that have played would do the same thing that do in the game you could think what will happen.
When I think of all the things that I have done in some games, even enjoying them, I know that in real life I couldn't ever done the same, the only idea is inconceivable.

[Skelaturi]

ICan you find any time any place where/when incest was considered normal since the man moved out of the cave?
Egyptian pharaohs? They were considered Gods, not humans, and Gods had incest marriages in many old religions.

Pharaohs were still human. So still incest, King Tut's parents were a brother and his sister as an example. The question is how far to look at incest. Brother sister, cousins etc. and of course, what's normal. (I do not find it normal that people kill each other, still it happens)
Examples of were it was considered normal
* Pharaohs
*Ptolemies
*Other Middle Eastern royal families
*Central Africa
*Incans
*Hawaiians (pre European or American contact)
* few hundreds years ago inbreeding among the European monarchies.
* The castes in India

You'll see a common theme here; royal (or something alike)families, to keep the lineage pure blooded. Want to hear a good story about that, read Harry Potter, pure blooded wizards making fun of impure ones.

Or some closer stories, i think it's 5-6 years ago, about that incest cult in Australia. A family of 40 living together with i think it was 5 generations of inbreeding.
Or that accidental one in 2007-2008 a couple just got married, but soon after it became clear they were brother and sister. The fun fact. They were twins separated at birth both adopted.Their marriage got annulled. Hooray for adoption secrecy, same goes for sperm donations. Anonymous
That one couple in south africa, who had been together for 5 years. Expecting their first child. They were raised separately and met in college. Just before their wedding their parents met and they came to realize they were brother and sister.

And then we could also talk about Genetic sexual attraction: Copy from wiki

Genetic sexual attraction (GSA) is incest between close relatives, such as siblings or half-siblings, a parent and offspring, or first and second cousins, who first meet as adults.

and following the word " normal" and incest. Yes it's becoming real normal in gaming/porn. Yes even in popular show and pop culture like game of thrones. So yes expect it to become more " normal" over the next 20 years.

Now my last words of wisdom i want to give is this: In 1987, geneticists studied the mitochondrial DNA of 147 people of different races and found that the DNA of all living people fall within one of two human lineages. And everyones DNA can be traced back to 1 single woman that lived 200.000 years ago. How do you like that.
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