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The audience for incest are very senstive when it comes to such matters. Either give them a real family doing the "do" or give them stories. For some reason, they love stories. And you know how porn is nowadays- undress, boink and go! No time for big productions with lines etc



This was the first notion that I had when I saw the question. These "themes" were more prevalent in the porn of yesteryear, because the porn of yesteryear still employed clunky cinematic devices. I remember, I mean I heard about a Traci Lords film with Tommy Byron from the 80's where they played brother and sister, she was a year ahead of him in college. Tom was troubled by all the aggressive attention from jocks and such that big sis got. At film's climax, after Tommy's hazing rubvbed him the wrong way, Traci comforts him by explaining thye troubles in their relationship are due to their unspoken desires. Well, then you know where it goes. Tom tittyfucks her, she being a college sophmore and all of what? 14? Anyway, what I was saying is is that our current crop of pornography has no themes in the normal sense, and certainly no subtext. It's like watching a firing squad execution. Everything you need to know is right there, engaging you on all levels exactly the same, like getting struck by lightning, maybe. This is why I think it is simultaneously wonderful and horrifying, flattened out and drained like this. We respond to it in new ways. A lot of the time I feel like I'm getting away with something. But anyway, again, featuring incest as a pornographic hook I think would be difficult now because it either relies on anachronistic and now anathemaic "scenarios" with fobs to acting and narrative, or it has to be actual familial sexual relations, the thrill of which would be drained/cancelled by the schtick necessary to get it in front of a camera. I used to peek on my older sister and masturbate when she come over to Mom's and use the shower after work, she in her 20's, I an adolescent. Their was a vent in the bathroom floor connected to nothing and I'd creep into the basement when she was in there and time my ejeculation for when she got out of the shower and ran the towel over her wet body and applied skin lotion. I'm telling you this for a reason. It was safe, that was its appealk. Had I been caught by her, it would not have turned into a legal matter, but would've remained within the family. Punishment, to be sure, but not the full weight of grinding society. This seems to me to be the thrill of incest. Hard to capture on any medium except for maybe a book, where you're completely alone. But cinematically, certainly not in pornography as we know it now.


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