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                                          January 9, 2019

So, what is it about incest?

   It's hugely popular in Japanese doujinshi
   (amateur pornographic comic books).

   It's a strong element in some very popular
   Korean dramas.                                   WINTER_SONATA

   There was a French film about a drunken          BAD_GIRLS_FATE
   mother-son incestuous incident ("Murmur of
   the Heart", I think), and an American film
   with a similar element.

   The later-half of Heinlein's career was
   practically built on incest fantasies.        TO_SAIL_BEYOND

   Then of course, there's it's role in
   ancient greek tragedy and in Freud's,
   uh, theories of human psychology.

   Then, from Anthropology: the taboo on incest
   is one of the classic universals of human
   culture (though interestingly, since different
   cultures have different definitions of "family":
   definitions of what qualifies as incest differ).


But then, another popular element from the
J-Cult is "yaoi", male homosexual romance.        There are a few
                                                  signs of this in
             FUJOSHI                              Korean culture,
                                                  e.g. "Coffee Prince".
                   J_MAZE

                     SHOJOS_DESCENT

The fan-club of the "Ouran Host Club" has
a strong fujoshi streak, they frequently
speak approvingly of "forbidden love",             HOST
typically referring to male homosexual
romance-- "Thank you for letting us                   NOUNIFICATION
witness your forbidden love".


   That may be the key element:
   incest and homosexuality are both
   forms of "forbidden love".                Another popular one is
                                             extreme class differences...
   They supply a barrier to try to
   overcome--                                      Interestingly, tribal
                                                   differences ala
                                                   Romeo and Juliet aren't
                                                   used so much.

                                              Then there's "adultery"
   Really, we're living in a world            an adult theme popular with
   where if two people feel like              adults everywhere.
   they're interested in each other,
   they can just get together and see
   where the relationship goes.

       But no conflict == no story.
                                          At least not in the conventional
                                          understanding of fiction.

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