pseudoincest

alternative pseudo-incest

1. uncountableSexual involvement between family members who are not blood relations (e.g., siblings by adoption, stepparents and stepchildren, in-laws).

   Half of the cases were the classical father-daughter incest, a quarter of them the stepfather-stepdaughter pseudoincest and the remainder were abuse by relatives or siblings.

   1986, Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty Brnénské university, volumes 30-34, page 67

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   Whether fact or fiction, Antiochus and Stratonice is a good story. […] At the core of the story lay the disturbing assertion that a father had passed his wife to his son. This pseudoincest plot toyed with cultural taboos of the Persian East and the Greco-Roman West, anticipating Sigmund Freud's later naming of the Oedipus complex as an unconscious sexual desire.

   2009, Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, page 216

   The streets of the industrial cities of that time were teeming with street urchins, and the hideous class system of the British had arrived at its most impervious and solidified condition. The induction into a middle-class family of a street orphan would have been an extraordinary act at that time. This extraordinary act—while not completely unthinkable—becomes explicable if Earnshaw’s compassion is underscored by culpability. The spectral suggestion that Heathcliff was Earnshaw's illegitimate child won't go away. What is unthinkable is that this never occurred to Emily Brontë. The implication is a structural ghost that twists and shapes the subsequent narrative. We are not dealing with pseudoincest at all, but incest in all its colors.

   2011, Graham Joyce, “Narrative and Regeneration: The Little Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff”, in Danel Olson, editor, 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, pages 450–451

2. uncountablePornography or erotica focused on sexual situations between nonconsanguineous relatives.

   (Moore explains, for instance, that in 2015, pseudoincest porn was a popular genre.)

   2016, Shira Tarrant, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 37

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   The very week my sock puppet author frenemy Lexi Wood released her stepdaddy/stepdaughter novella Dance for Daddy, Salome, Amazon started banning “pseudoincest” erotica.

   2017, Giselle Renard, How to Fail Miserably at Writing, unnumbered page

   Synonyms: fauxcest, PI