Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
This thread reminds me about a time I narrowly avoided being mauled by a cougar. I was on a work trip to San Diego a decade ago, and the company had put me and my colleague up in this fairly swank country-club hotel on the outskirts of the city. One evening were having dinner there and this woman came over to us and started talking to us - well, mainly to me - and by talking, I mean coming on to me so hard I'd have to have been Hellen Keller not to pick up on it. She was probably about the age I am now, in good shape and quite attractive, and gave the impression she'd be a great deal of fun in bed. So I'd have been well up for it if not two things. One was that I was already in a relationship with Mrs. Tea by that time; I mentioned this, and it was quite funny to have this woman pawing at my arm and praising me for being so incredibly loyal, like I was displaying the moral fortitude of an early Christian martyr who'd refused to renounce his faith even as the chief torturer warmed up his biggest and best bottom-spike to an angry red glow just because I hadn't fallen penis-first into a woman who'd been flirting with me for five minutes after I'd been away from my girlfriend for a week or so.

But the other thing was that she was sat at a table with this guy who gave every impression of being her partner. He hardly said a word the whole time, and I found him, and the dynamic between him and her, totally unreadable. Maybe he was bi and picking up younger guys for threesomes was their thing, and she was doing the flirting on the basis that I was most likely straight? Maybe he had a cuck fetish and just liked to watch? Maybe they'd had a massive fight earlier, and this was her way of punishing him? Maybe they were working for a Chinese organ harvesting gang, and I was one "Hey, check out this unique perfume, I've got some on my handkerchief..." from waking up in a bathtub full of ice, minus a kidney? I'll never know.
 
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Corpsey

bandz ahoy
the slow seeping of porn into the mainstream is an interesting development i think. as i keep going on about ad nuseum, this thing of stuff that has emerged out of the internet is really of the moment. 'milf manor' isn't exactly subtle, it's the kind of name that a video on pornhub would have. porn in general being a mass and super inflential cultural form in recent years.
The other similarity is that step porn is so huge presumably cos you need some sort of kinky edge to stand out from a crowd of a bajillion porn videos. Reality TV similarly has to be 'shocking' in order to attract the precious resource of attention.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
The other similarity is that step porn is so huge presumably cos you need some sort of kinky edge to stand out from a crowd of a bajillion porn videos.
Right, but hasn't it reached the point where non-incest-themed porn would, if anything, be the kinky, niche stuff?

(Hang on, why am I telling you this? You could presumably write a longform essay for the LRB on this very subject.)
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Saying that, who knows what's popular cos everything is filtered for your tastes these days, but I don't see a lot of that 'gonzo' brutal porn that was trending back in the day, Max Power or whatever. I actually wouldn't be surprised if porn (in the mainstream) is a lot less extreme than it used to be. Perhaps that's also to do with what shaka says about porn becoming mainstream? It's not immune to the cultural mores that govern mainstream society. Mainstream society has become a lot more sex/kink positive it seems to me. Could this even be another factor in the rise of 'step' porn—the need to inject a bit of taboo into something that's becoming less and less shameful?
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I don't like to be characterised as a porn obsessed wank monster (although I am) but I do think porn is a fascinating thing because it's so omnipresent, most adult men (and many adult women?) watch it, but it's not spoken of, you wouldn't see porn reviews in the papers.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
The other similarity is that step porn is so huge presumably cos you need some sort of kinky edge to stand out from a crowd of a bajillion porn videos. Reality TV similarly has to be 'shocking' in order to attract the precious resource of attention.
Step-porn, took me a second to work out but you mean stepsister, stepmother etc of course - which is surely walking right up to a line they daren't cross ie dropping the step bit.
 

linebaugh

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I dont think theres any mass incest kink per se. I think its more the porn companies stumbled into creating a kink that can only realistically be experienced through the computer
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
I dont think theres any mass incest kink per se. I think its more the porn companies stumbled into creating a kink that can only realistically be experienced through the computer
Seems a strange one to me, I don't have any step-relatives and so I don't think of step-sisters as tantalizingly forbidden fruit - in fact I don't tend to think of them at all, and I'd have surmised that that was the case for most people. So how did they end up as a repository for the sexual fantasies of a generation?
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I'm sure it has a lot to do with all the incest in Game of Thrones, although whether the show kicked off the current obsession with (quasi-)incest in commercial porn or picked up on something that was already there, I don't know.
 
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