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pseudoincest

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + incest.

  1. learned borrowing from incestus
  2. prefixed as pseudoincest — “pseudo + incest”

Definitions

  1. Sexual involvement between family members who are not blood relations (e.g., siblings by…

    Sexual 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.

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

    • (Moore explains, for instance, that in 2015, pseudoincest porn was a popular genre.)
    • The very week my sock puppet author frenemy Lexi Wood released her stepdaddy/stepdaughter novella Dance for Daddy, Salome, Amazon started banning “pseudoincest” erotica.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pseudoincest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA