pseudoincest

pseudoincestnoun

• 1

  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.
  • 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.
• 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.