Why do I get turned on so much by Mother/Son incest games as a fantasy?

[agwoodliffe]

In real life my romantic interests are very normal.
But when it comes to lewd games, I find that incest category, especially Mother/Son relationships, turn me on the most.

And from what i've read in recent comments, a lot of other people have the same preference. In a poll on what type of 'forbidden romance' people enjoy the most, the winner by far was "Mother/Son".

I wonder why this is? Perhaps the whole "Oedipus Complex" / "Adonis Complex" is a real thing, at least in terms of fantasy.
For me personally, I never really had a mom. Maybe that has created some kind of emotional void?

 

[Artemissu]

It could be a lot of reasons tbh.

But one thing is certain, the taboo is pretty alluring for a lot of people (in the realm of fantasy). Same reason why you'd love to play a war game, or a horror game, or a fighting game, even though you probably wouldn't want to partake into these things in real life yourself.

 

[tanstaafl]

There are a lot of reassuring psychological things about mother/son incest...but usually only with people that had good relationships with their mother. The odd part is that the mother part is not the sexual part (bear with me, I'll get to it). It's the feeling of safety that is remembered consciously or unconsciously. A good mother never judged, made fun of you (outside of innocent teasing sometimes), made you feel inadequate, etc. On top of that we remember when they were always around.

Now, take that feeling of comfort and trust and add sex to it. The always available aspect of sex from someone you trust absolutely. Etc.

It's also why mother NTR is some of the most kick in the nuts content available, same thing, but turned upside down. A betrayal of that trust and safety.

 

[Cartman-Brah]

for me to enjoy this kind of content I have to imagine the mc as a different person. i think it's quite enjoyable to follow the relationship between x person and their mother. but if i imagine the mc as myself then i stay away from incest games.

 

[Letstryitout]

The Most popular adult contents are non-vanilla. Taboo, Fantasy, Roleplay or outright Illegal. They don't have to have any meaning in Real life, and for the majority, it does not. Even with the '80s Vintage porns Incest setting was trendy, It's just how it is.

 

[woody554]

I'll copy here my wall of text answer to a similar thread years ago:



why do we climb the highest mountain and not the lowest?

there's a group of roles for women whose attraction is based on the fact that they should be out of our league, absolutely off-limits to our vile throbbing erections. teachers, nuns, princesses, the mayor, CEO, mob queen, and women you're related to. for some of them the mountain to climb is lower and some higher, but the one you should have absolutely no business dicking is your mom. cousins are barely related to you, sisters check all the other boxes of suitable mates except being unrelated.

so the highest mountain, the most unattainable woman to slip your dick in, is your mom. she's a grown woman out of your league socially, often also temperamentally (strict, prude, religious mom), financially and most importantly she's the closest relative both genetically AND emotionally. for any other woman in your family there's more distance, making them less off-limits than mom.

and while the point of taboo can be made, it's not really even about it. there are far more taboo things to fuck than your consenting adult mom who loves you unconditionally, yet those other things are not anywhere near the mountain of unattainable women. the queen of this mountain is the mom. not your friend's mom, not a hot teen mom and not even your aunt who happens to have children of her own. it's YOUR mom, or the MCs mom to be more exact. the highest peak, the most unfathomable conquest.

this also explains the thing about younger and physically smaller sons as the MC. it all adds to the power difference of mom & son, making her again a less attainable conquest than if MC was a bigger muscular MAN. the MAN would be the expected pairing if they weren't related, but the youthful horny teen would not. so the teen MC again makes the mountain higher and thus the conquest sweeter.

that's about it. that's the main mechanism why milfs/nuns/teachers/moms are so popular. I mean you could even take the same mom, time travel to when she was younger, and she'd lose a lot of the attraction. objectively she'd be hotter, have better body and be in every physical way superior to the milf-mom, but on this mountain she'd lose a lot of attraction. she'd lose all the stature she had as a grown-up woman with her social status over teen MC. suddenly, biologically speaking she becomes the expected pairing not the least expected. teen-mom is your peer, another hormone crazed teen just desperately wanting some teen dick inside her. the mountain has been lowered to a lay-up.

for the vast majority it has NOTHING to do with wanting to fuck your actual real life mom, it's about the power relation between MC and the woman who you should have no business putting your dick in. I mean if the mom model was actually modeled to look EXACTLY like your actual mom, a doppelganger, THEN there would be a great case. but most mom-son incest fans would be extremely disgusted by such a model, it wouldn't be the MC's mom anymore. the MC's mom is some unknown mom, she doesn't (for us) trigger the biological disgust instinct because we weren't raised up by HER.

I get how it still does that for people who are disgusted by fictional mon-son stories, but that's just how it is. some fictional pairings disgust me too, so I totally understand those who are disgusted by fictional mom-son incest. just because we're talking about animation characters or whatever doesn't change anything, we still react however we react, and it varies from person to another.

 

[Kamishirov]

I never really had a mom.

Probably this to be honest, like people who don't have sisters, etc.

 

[Gone405]

It could be a lot of reasons tbh.

But one thing is certain, the taboo is pretty alluring for a lot of people (in the realm of fantasy). Same reason why you'd love to play a war game, or a horror game, or a fighting game, even though you probably wouldn't want to partake into these things in real life yourself.

This is how i see it. I'm not a fan of incest stuff the closest I got was brother/sister but even then anime influenced me on that and after a bit I didn't care for it. Tho I relate with this for Netorase/NTR stuff. Like I not gonna let my gf/wife fuck other dudes tho in a fantasy setting that's different i find it arousing tho not irl. Ik many other factors can be at play as well like not having a mom and may have these games to fill that void (tho this isn't three best obviously).

 

[Artemissu]

I'll copy here my wall of text answer to a similar thread years ago:



why do we climb the highest mountain and not the lowest?

there's a group of roles for women whose attraction is based on the fact that they should be out of our league, absolutely off-limits to our vile throbbing erections. teachers, nuns, princesses, the mayor, CEO, mob queen, and women you're related to. for some of them the mountain to climb is lower and some higher, but the one you should have absolutely no business dicking is your mom. cousins are barely related to you, sisters check all the other boxes of suitable mates except being unrelated.

so the highest mountain, the most unattainable woman to slip your dick in, is your mom. she's a grown woman out of your league socially, often also temperamentally (strict, prude, religious mom), financially and most importantly she's the closest relative both genetically AND emotionally. for any other woman in your family there's more distance, making them less off-limits than mom.

and while the point of taboo can be made, it's not really even about it. there are far more taboo things to fuck than your consenting adult mom who loves you unconditionally, yet those other things are not anywhere near the mountain of unattainable women. the queen of this mountain is the mom. not your friend's mom, not a hot teen mom and not even your aunt who happens to have children of her own. it's YOUR mom, or the MCs mom to be more exact. the highest peak, the most unfathomable conquest.

this also explains the thing about younger and physically smaller sons as the MC. it all adds to the power difference of mom & son, making her again a less attainable conquest than if MC was a bigger muscular MAN. the MAN would be the expected pairing if they weren't related, but the youthful horny teen would not. so the teen MC again makes the mountain higher and thus the conquest sweeter.

that's about it. that's the main mechanism why milfs/nuns/teachers/moms are so popular. I mean you could even take the same mom, time travel to when she was younger, and she'd lose a lot of the attraction. objectively she'd be hotter, have better body and be in every physical way superior to the milf-mom, but on this mountain she'd lose a lot of attraction. she'd lose all the stature she had as a grown-up woman with her social status over teen MC. suddenly, biologically speaking she becomes the expected pairing not the least expected. teen-mom is your peer, another hormone crazed teen just desperately wanting some teen dick inside her. the mountain has been lowered to a lay-up.

for the vast majority it has NOTHING to do with wanting to fuck your actual real life mom, it's about the power relation between MC and the woman who you should have no business putting your dick in. I mean if the mom model was actually modeled to look EXACTLY like your actual mom, a doppelganger, THEN there would be a great case. but most mom-son incest fans would be extremely disgusted by such a model, it wouldn't be the MC's mom anymore. the MC's mom is some unknown mom, she doesn't (for us) trigger the biological disgust instinct because we weren't raised up by HER.

I get how it still does that for people who are disgusted by fictional mon-son stories, but that's just how it is. some fictional pairings disgust me too, so I totally understand those who are disgusted by fictional mom-son incest. just because we're talking about animation characters or whatever doesn't change anything, we still react however we react, and it varies from person to another.

Very interesting read. It's basically "the more unattainable someone is, the more desireable they become," as pyschology says. And in the realm of fiction at least, the mother is the most unattainable partner one (the MC) could ever hope for conquering. In videogaming terms, the MC conquering his mother is like playing and finishing a really hard game (i.e. Ninja Gaiden), and feeling a wonderful dose of dopamine when you finally do it.

This also applies to some other fetishes too, like rape and corruption. Overpowering the strong female warrior, or corrupting a pure and innocent "flower" girl and turning her into everything she's supposed to oppose. It's the allure of the challenge.

 

[Gone405]

Very interesting read. It's basically "the more unattainable someone is, the more desireable they become," as pyschology says. And in the realm of fiction at least, the mother is the most unattainable partner one (the MC) could ever hope for conquering. In videogaming terms, the MC conquering his mother is like playing and finishing a really hard game (i.e. Ninja Gaiden), and feeling a wonderful dose of dopamine when you finally do it.

This also applies to some other fetishes too, like rape and corruption. Overpowering the strong female warrior, or corrupting a pure and innocent "flower" girl and turning her into everything she's supposed to oppose. It's the allure of the challenge.

Definitely a good way of putting it into words I did wonder how I would explain myself for liking corruption games and even games with rape since "conquering" a women is a interesting challenge for me in those games.

 

[jjwolf257]

For me, it's not about mom/son relationship. It's about a milf. It's just easier to find M/S content and imagine they aren't related in that way. That's a big reason why I enjoy the "landlady" title for the milfs.

 

[metalblinga]

Cuz it's hot

 

[balitz Method]

Very interesting read. It's basically "the more unattainable someone is, the more desireable they become," as pyschology says. And in the realm of fiction at least, the mother is the most unattainable partner one (the MC) could ever hope for conquering. In videogaming terms, the MC conquering his mother is like playing and finishing a really hard game (i.e. Ninja Gaiden), and feeling a wonderful dose of dopamine when you finally do it.

Usually mother/son incest is presented in the exact opposite way: that affection from a mother toward (almost universally) a son is immediately available and pure, so much so that it becomes a model for 'safe' or 'pure' affection, or else it's withheld and conditional and that's where you might see the idea of challenge come into it. If a man doesn't feel like he ever got his mother's approval he might spend much of his life trying to earn it and that can take on sexual notes in fantasies. On that other pole, if their mother's affection was coddling, then mother/son incest fantasies can take on the form of infantilizing nurturing, protecting the boy from the pressures of manhood by sending signals that he doesn't have to take those trials so long as he's with her.

In both cases it's strongly tied to arrested development, which is one interpretation of the psychosexual undercurrents of the Oedipus Complex.

On its face it doesn't really make sense to say that a mother is the most unattainable woman in a man's life; the 'further' a person's presence is the more yearning for them takes on the form of worship. Everyone was close to their mother for at least their very earliest development and, for most, she was within reach for a period of time afterward. That's -why- mothers make a strong imprint on their child's psyche. Trying to close that (usually short) distance is not some great feat, it's necessarily forbidden not because it's 'difficult' but because it's essentially living in reverse. That's not to say it's essentially an unhealthy fixation, though, if people can find some kind of resolution to the feelings that made them want to gaze backwards they can then move forwards. Even the story of Oedipus itself plays out this way.