My Thoughts on Incest in Fandom

[elle_white]

 Incest is a traumatic and terrible thing in real life,and a lot of people seem to sadly ignore.

It  also takes away from healthy, well done platonic relationships. I think in society sometimes romantic and sexual relationships are held up as being the most important thing. That can be a very unhealthy message for people of all sexualities. I think it's important to show the importance of platonic relationships too. And as an asexual, it's important for me to see close non-sexual familial and (genuine, non queer baiting) friendship based relationships in the media that are depicted as valuable by the narrative. And fandom will often take a healthy familial relationship and turn into something sexual, something that is traumatic and devastating for many people in real life. I just don't want to see that. 

I have many, many romantic ships that I love that fangirl over. I'm a pretty big shipper. But I also value loving, non-sexual relationships in media. I personally don't care for incest in fandom. 

Comments

[elle_white]

I agree with you about incest only working with facts in mind. Fanfic writers will often write incestuous relationship as being a sexy, cute and healthy relationship. But that does not reflect the reality for incest survivors in real life. And yeah, you can depict a close, loving family relationship without adding sex.