I have a pet hypothesis that, on average, those into step porn are more likely not have grown up with a sibling of the gender they fancy. I reckon those of us who did are more likely to repelled by anything alluding to incest.

People who grew up with ACTUAL hot step siblings notwithstanding.

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    I’m pretty sure most consumers of porn are just interested in watching people fuck. The wraparound story isn’t that important. And it certainly isn’t data for some amateur Psych study.

    I mean pizza delivery guys used to be a popular “story”, But I don’t think people were secretly trying to recover from their Oedipus trauma with the help of the Noid.

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      A man that brings me pizza, especially with extra sausage, may not automatically be my perfect partner but he’d be pretty up there.

      Add a rug of chest hair I can wrap my fingers in…

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    I remember a post somewhere that suggested the wave of step-sibling porn is because it’s really effective short-hand. You get two characters that know each other and are close, but shouldn’t do anything because of all the fallout that would happen. It’s a quick way to recreate the childhood friend dynamic, but also add a strong taboo and explain why they always hang out in the same house. It also gives a reason why sex can be frequent, but never tie someone into a relationship.

    Sure, there’s a lot of perverts in the world, but there’s also people who enjoy the dynamic of “we really shouldn’t… but…”

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      It’s also incredibly cheap to produce, requiring no unusual props or location shooting, and generally tolerable to those who aren’t interested in the kink, so it’s a relatively safe bet economically

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      And on top of that, unlike many other kinks, even people who don’t care about the step thing might still be interested.

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    My friend’s husband left her for his step sister. They (the husband and step sister) now live with their dad. The dad moved out of the master bedroom so they could sleep together during the two-year affair before they were exposed. They became step siblings as children - elementary/ middle school age. They did not grow up in the same house, but did spend weekends and school breaks together. The things that freak me out are – they will share the inheritance when the dad passes – if they break up (Is there a Hallmark card for breaking up with your sister?) who moves out? I realize this has nothing to do with porn. It just shows that some people are fucked up.

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        Ohhh. I forgot i had posted this before. You asked the same then and I don’t know what it means. Maybe that’s something from their childhood? Do you know them? Maybe sibling fuckers are more common than i realized.

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          It’s a step-whatever motive in the porn videos. Like, step-sister gets stuck in the washing machine for some reason and is subsequently banged in the rear by step-bro while she’s unable to free herself.

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          You asked the same then and I don’t know what it means.

          It’s a reference to many step porn scenes where the step sister gets “stuck” in a washing machine, or under a table, or bed. The step bro helps them out usually by fucking them out of where they are stuck.

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    I don’t like step sibling porn but it’s a lot of the content. I type in “blonde big tits” or whatever and what comes out is “blonde big tit step sister gets railed” or whatever. I’d click if it was girlfriend or wife instead of step sister the same.

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      There are some creators on PornHub and the like that seem to be doing SEO with their titles. One of their videos will refer to the woman as “step sister” the next video will use “roommate” another will use “cheating wife”. None of the videos have any dialogue so I think the channel is just trying to show up in as many search results as possible.

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      “Well, I came here for big blonde tits, but you gave me step-sister porn…ah well. It’s pornhub. That’s 100% of the videos. When in Rome…”

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    I was an only child and a latchkey kid, and am not just into sibling incest but full on incest. But yes, distilled, my fetish is for a functional, unneglected and much less solitary childhood. (Not turning into a pariah as soon as I started developing sexual interests in puberty might have also been nice.)

    I suppose I also have the V. C. Andrews fetish which is taboo relationships that are formed as a cope due to extreme family dysfunctionality, since part of my fetish is the sex gets out of hand and when discovered, the drama explodes messily.

    Curiously, my family on my mother’s side are hot, and my cousin was propositioned by Playboy in the 1980s as possible centerfold material. (She was also a high-school swim-team champion.) And yet, full Westermarck effect (reverse sexual imprinting) was active. I just couldn’t think about them in that way.

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    I did. But I never fantasised about actual incest, and certainly not with my family members. But fantasy incest in porn? Defo works for me.

    I think lots of people are very capable of finding stuff hot as a fantasy while having zero interest in the reality. In fact, that’s part of the appeal. If I’m just watching hot people have sex, it just kinda makes me sad I’m not having sex with them. But if I’m watching a kinky scene or something that is taboo because of the relationship of the characters involved, then I can find it hot without being disappointed it isn’t real.

    (and while I think there’s something to your theory, the popularity of stepmom porn suggests it’s not that simple, as most people who watch that probably had a mom)

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    I’ve always suspected that there’s some coincidence whereby a lot of people have suddenly started watching some step-sibling porn simply because it’s among the first videos they see and not because they’re into step-siblings, then whoever decides what genre of porn gets made has noticed and assumed it’s suddenly more popular for a reason, so it gets made more often, then there’s a feedback effect.

    Edit: that said, I don’t know what kind of porn anyone I know watches, if any, but I’m sort of vaguley aware of this step-sibling meme.

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    I just like that it’s taboo, but not outright abuse. I’d love to find another subgenre that had a decent amount of available content. Suggestions?