Society And Culture | Sybilla Oritur

What’s up with the incest?

I am a huge fan of Surf the Channel. It feeds my procrastination (soon to be ended as i will no longer have anything to procrastinate about) and prevents my scholastic bubble from strangling any access to the “real world.” In other words, i have something to talk about with people not interested in Latin or literature thanks to this particular site.

My favourite website recently launched an x-rated version of itself - to which i will refrain from linking as i already imagine this post is about to be bombarded with spam comments from its very title. Because i am curious, i have spent some time browsing the videos - and am perplexed by what appears to me to be an unusual frequency of incest videos - particularly of the mother-son variety.

Now, porn is not my thing, but i consider myself open-minded. I sort-of understand at least the power-dynamic being alluded to in the father-daughter incest scenarios (and i will admit they make me squeamish), however, i am genuinely PERPLEXED by this mother-son phenomenon. Middle-aged women are not reknowned for being attractive, and though i understand the appeal of the MILF fantasy - you’re own mother?

And this returns me to my social psychology courses. I have discussed this with quite a few people now, and while most seem to be as perplexed, i was confronted with a reality i like to forget. A female friend of mine made the claim that “there are women who enjoy being raped.” i cannot stress enough the difference between a rape-fantasy (i.e. role-playing in a consensual sexual relationship) and actual rape. If i remember the statistics correctly, when polled something like 80% of men and 50% of women believed there are women who would enjoy being raped - although not a single woman actually said she would enjoy being raped while many admitted to having a rape-fantasy. What kind of delusional evaluation of our own sexual drives and desires are these forms of pornography encouraging? Will we come to convince ourselves that every mother wants to engage in sexual relations with her son? I hope not…