Let’s dip into a topic that everyone is going to pretend to know nothing about, shall we?

Over in the world of porn there’s something called ‘fauxcest’, and it appears that the depiction of incest in movies is proving popular with many viewers.

DVD titles like Forbidden Family Affairs, Mother Son Secrets and My New White Step-Daddy are outselling their competition, ‘fictional incest porn’ obviously something tickling some fancies.

Yeah, Sigmund Freud fans are having a field day here.

More from The Daily Beast:

Leading adult content providers GameLink.com reported a 178 percent average increase in the consumption of “family role-play porn,” while 1 in 10 purchases made by young adults on the site were for fauxcest titles.

Feminist pornographer Jacky St. James [below, washing dildos apparently?] has embraced the controversial genre, calling it one of her favorites [sic] to direct. “It’s the one taboo that can’t really be explored in real life safely. This will be forbidden no matter what you do,” she says. “Because of that there is this allure of the untouchable, and what’s untouchable to us is often the most appealing”…

“It’s inherently seductive because [a family member] is the ultimate forbidden person,” says St. James. “Depending on what the dynamic is, if the scenario is set up correctly, say it’s a stepfather then it’s also the taboo of going after your mom’s man. Then it’s not just a boyfriend, it’s a father figure, so there are all of these taboos on top of other taboos.”

When [she] entered the porn industry three years ago, the calls for incest-themed scenes didn’t come up as often. Now, she says it’s almost every scene she gets booked for. Gia noticed her fan base becoming stranger—in some of the most deplorable ways. “Some of my fans weren’t nice anymore, they were creepy,” says Gia. “One fan told me that he and his wife conditioned their son his whole life until he was old enough to join them in bed. That really got to me. I almost felt like I was helping this kid get sexually abused.”

Horrified by some of the reprehensible feedback, Gia no longer feels comfortable performing fauxcest scenes and draws a hard line between making money and morality. “I won’t shoot any kind of incest scenes. I realize that’s cutting my work in half but I just don’t feel okay doing those scenes anymore. Not putting down anyone who does them or enjoys them, it’s just not something I want to play with anymore,” says Gia. “Technology is at everyone’s fingertips. I don’t want some kid seeing me on film coaxing my ‘stepbrother’ into fucking me and that kid thinking it’s okay to do that to his little sister or cousin. I shudder to think about it. But I do love porn and hope this trend dies. I just want to shoot good, clean porn again.”

There are a few puns we could rattle off about that last line, but we’ll take the high ground and bow out with dignity intact.

[source:dailybeast]