This is a real question, and I am not trying denounce anyone, but what is with people's fascination with incest? I see incest everywhere, from this site to others, and I've always thought it was weird, but it's popular. You could look through my 18,000+ favorites, and even my uploads and find incest images in them, I personally like the nudity, and don't pay attention to the relations of the characters. What's your guy's thoughts?
I'm not asking for story time here, like "I always have found my sister to be extremely hot..." ehk, just a general question I've always been curious about.

I'd assume it has something to do with the whole taboo factor. Some people get off on that.

Personally, I'm not a fan but I'm not one to kink shame others.

Maybe some people simply interpret it as a more intense way of express familial affection.

It's more of an anti-kink for me, but I basically completely ignore the tag. If I don't Know the characters are related, then for me, they aren't.

Oh so fucking a cat-woman is fine, but as soon as that cat-woman is your mom ALL BETS ARE OFF. Me personally I love that shit. Mother and son, brother and sister, etc.

I can't really explain why I like it. That's like asking me to explain why I prefer brunettes over blondes. IT'S IN MY CODE (sound warning)

I don't even make the connection to real incest to be entirely honest. To me they are just fictional characters of a non-existent species that happen to look similar.

irl: so long as it's limited to 2nd cousin and not done across multiple generations, i don't really care. that's to avoid any uh...genetic problems down the line.

aside from that, i don't care what people are interested. especially when it comes to porn. well, some things probably are best kept limited to the realm of fantasy. things like gore and other more extreme things.

I kind of like incest...provided it's furry. There's a lot of different things that excite me when it comes to furry porn, but not when it happens in real life. Having sex with my siblings is beyond off-putting. I think maybe it just the fact that it's a fantasy has something to do with it; coupled with it being taboo.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Personally, I'm not a fan but I'm not one to kink shame others.

That's what a secret or budding incest connoisseur would say.

To me it's just something different. Definately better enjoyed in fantasy than in reality, At least that's my opinion on the matter.

Just another kink. Some people like it, Some people don't.

Lance_Armstrong said:
That's what a secret or budding incest connoisseur would say.

Nah, it's just that I would be a hypocrite if I kink shamed others even though I have interest in some kinks that aren't considered "normal"

i misread the title as "Fascination with insects?" and i was about to tell a long story about how i have been observing bugs with great fascination since i was little kid. i was severely dissapointed when i opened the thread and read the posts ._.

Mutisija said:
i misread the title as "Fascination with insects?" and i was about to tell a long story about how i have been observing bugs with great fascination since i was little kid. i was severely dissapointed when i opened the thread and read the posts ._.

So was I to be honest.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Personally, I'm not a fan but I'm not one to kink shame others.

bro lemme smash

If you tell people that something is wrong and forbid them from doing it, you've essentially just guaranteed that more people are going to do it. Incest is taboo and therefore more attractive than it would be if nobody ever said anything about it.

Other than that, I feel that if two people want to fuck, even if they're brother and sister, etc., that really should be their choice.

Knotty_Curls said:
bro lemme smash

You want sum fuk?

Knotty_Curls said:
bro lemme smash

Ask Ben. Ben is a ho

InannaEloah said:
Other than that, I feel that if two people want to fuck, even if they're brother and sister, etc., that really should be their choice.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on the subject.

Though I do personally like incest in theory. (Would never do that irl)

I don't like the idea of incest but in the case of furry porn it's not something that's too big of a deal really. Whenever I look at images that have intercourse I imagine myself as one of the characters. If it's a brother and sister I see myself as the brother but I don't see the sister as my own sister just a girl. So incest doesn't bother me in terms of furry and I doubt many other people especially if they see furry porn the way I do.

When I see pictures of Alvin and the Chipmunks making out and doing it I don't see incest I see porn and wishing I was in on that.

I've done enough genealogy research to know that almost everyone's family tree is full of close marriages (and likely plenty of undocumented cases of inbreeding). So it's hard for me to feel fazed by incest, especially if it's fictional.

It's a taboo that humanity should probably outgrow. The downsides have been greatly exaggerated by the modern media.

I mean pretending anything furry is "too far" is adorable.

It's a fetish based off things being taboo. In a fandom that pretends eating people is a kink, that is light :O

CamKitty said:
I mean pretending anything furry is "too far" is adorable.

It's a fetish based off things being taboo. In a fandom that pretends eating people is a kink, that is light :O

Hey, you can't help what turns you on, and you can't help what turns you off.

Some people just don't have the usual mental hangups that prevent most people from viewing family members as viable sexual partners (in any capacity). I wouldn't mind interrogating someone who isn't into incest until I utterly isolate and lay bare their kernel of resistance to the idea, just to pin down and understand this hangup I've never really had.

So it was a convenient premise to latch onto. My fascination with incest, if you would call it that, was born from efficiency and pragmatism.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Nah, it's just that I would be a hypocrite if I kink shamed others even though I have interest in some kinks that aren't considered "normal"

I would take that quandary the other way. I wouldn't stop myself from kink-shaming someone else, and if they called me out on my kinks being fucked up, then I would probably agree, up to a point. That allows me to be consistent with all my beliefs.

abadbird said:
Some people just don't have the usual mental hangups that prevent most people from viewing family members as viable sexual partners (in any capacity). I wouldn't mind interrogating someone who isn't into incest until I utterly isolate and lay bare their kernel of resistance to the idea, just to pin down and understand this hangup I've never really had.

Quite simply, I zone into what makes a character who they are. They become real to me because of my mindset. I dislike the idea of any sort of degeneration that can be knowingly prevented, even if it's minor and not a high risk; incest happens to be during the act of sex which makes it worse than something like drinking alcohol while pregnant.

Genjar said:
I've done enough genealogy research to know that almost everyone's family tree is full of close marriages (and likely plenty of undocumented cases of inbreeding). So it's hard for me to feel fazed by incest, especially if it's fictional.

It's a taboo that humanity should probably outgrow. The downsides have been greatly exaggerated by the modern media.

I don't doubt the media is exaggerating, but it's still a very real concern.

Close marriages were usually cousins-only, not direct relatives. Even with this mild gap, royal families in particular - who intentionally used close-marriages in an attempt to keep the lineage 'pure' - had a much higher incidence of horrid disease because more closely related people are more likely to share recessive genes for the same illnesses. Queen Victoria, for instance, carried but did not display hemophilia, so her descendants were more likely to have it too.

For readers who are unaware, some traits of a human being are determined by a single gene, but have more than one gene stored in DNA. When this occurs, one of the inherited genes may be dominant and the other recessive - the dominant one 'takes priority' and nullifies any effect the recessive gene would have.

Many diseases such as Parkinson's and hemophilia are recessive, which means they only display in people with all-recessive genes as a single dominant gene suppresses it. However, two people each with one dominant and one recessive gene (Dr + Dr) for the same illness can still pass the disease to their children at about a 25% chance (DD / Dr / rD / rr), despite neither parent suffering from it themselves. If the child does not suffer the disease, there is then a 66% chance they will carry the gene.

If a person actually suffering the illness (rr) were then to have children with another person who carried the disease (Dr), their children would then have a 50% chance of inheriting it (Dr / rr / rD / rr) and would be guaranteed to at least carry it.

The more closely related two people are, the more likely they are to share recessive genes for the same illness, and the more likely their children will thus suffer that illness.

But that's children, not sex. The real reason not to fuck your family members is simply because the social relationship invariably turns out unhealthy and creepy.

Poontang said:
This is a real question, and I am not trying denounce anyone, but what is with people's fascination with incest? I see incest everywhere, from this site to others, and I've always thought it was weird, but it's popular. You could look through my 18,000+ favorites, and even my uploads and find incest images in them, I personally like the nudity, and don't pay attention to the relations of the characters. What's your guy's thoughts?
I'm not asking for story time here, like "I always have found my sister to be extremely hot..." ehk, just a general question I've always been curious about.

Psychologists have found there are a huge number of reasons why people find incest-or at least the concept of it-arousing. I wouldn't say "as many as there are people who find it arousing," or even nearly so, but still a large number. For some, it's the "forbidden fruit" appeal you mentioned. For some, it's just a desire to mother/be mothered that develops...interesting side effects. I could spend paragraphs listing possible reasons. :P

FibS said:
Even with this mild gap, royal families in particular - who intentionally used close-marriages in an attempt to keep the lineage 'pure' - had a much higher incidence of horrid disease because more closely related people are more likely to share recessive genes for the same illnesses.

Yeah, natural selection didn't work for the nobility.
Absolutely everyone was married off. It didn't matter that they couldn't even string two words together and spent most of their time drooling, they were still of royal blood and therefore considered prime marriage candidates.

If they were of a lower class, they would've never managed to pass on their genes.

FibS said:
For readers who are unaware, some traits of a human being are determined by a single gene, but have more than one gene stored in DNA. When this occurs, one of the inherited genes may be dominant and the other recessive - the dominant one 'takes priority' and nullifies any effect the recessive gene would have.

Many diseases such as Parkinson's and hemophilia are recessive, which means they only display in people with all-recessive genes as a single dominant gene suppresses it. However, two people each with one dominant and one recessive gene (Dr + Dr) for the same illness can still pass the disease to their children at about a 25% chance (DD / Dr / rD / rr), despite neither parent suffering from it themselves. If the child does not suffer the disease, there is then a 66% chance they will carry the gene.

If a person actually suffering the illness (rr) were then to have children with another person who carried the disease (Dr), their children would then have a 50% chance of inheriting it (Dr / rr / rD / rr) and would be guaranteed to at least carry it.

The more closely related two people are, the more likely they are to share recessive genes for the same illness, and the more likely their children will thus suffer that illness.

But that's children, not sex. The real reason not to fuck your family members is simply because the social relationship invariably turns out unhealthy and creepy.

this is the exact reason why i said 2nd cousin(s) and not over multiple generations. so potential issues such as this might be minimized. i think it'd be pretty cruel to bring a child into the world knowing theres a 50/50 chance something like this could happen to them.

that also happens to be one of the reasons i'm not against abortion. how can someone say they love kids when they'd be willing to risk a child being born with a disease like that just so the kid would have a chance at living? that's not a gamble i'd want to risk. :/