Its a way to make an otherwise vanilla male-female porn video somewhat risque and interesting
This actually is Freud's point more or less, but about sexual shit in general. Like without fantasy and taboo, sex (especially masturbation) is mindless and repetitive behavior. Of course it's a fundamental aspect of subjectivity, a radically indeterminate excess of experience which is largely unconscious and unknowable. It's something you can't just dismiss as dumb, but it kinda is dumb and you have to reconcile with it.
Maybe some would reject my notion of fantasy and make a claim about love driving sex, but love doesn't function without fantasy. Maybe simply proximity to someone bleeds into unconscious desire and this is where taboo arises. In any case I think Freud is just right as fuck, and everyone who is uncomfortable with that is just uncomfortable with their incestual desires, because literally everyone - though not of their reason or purpose or conscious thought necessarily - does have some version of these desires. I'd even argue here that the people who mute "step-" porn are actually more affected by this, it's obviously more taboo in this case imo. If this was truly like some Kantian categorical imperative, why even ever click on "step-" porn just to mute it? Unconscious desire is a sonofabitch a lot of the time. We can either reconcile ourselves with it consciously or make it a taboo that we must repress and consequently unconsciously desire to transgress. Of course I'm not endorsing incest irl, I more endorse the recognition of our unconsciousness desires being at odds with ourselves. That if we're actually serious about the moral issues that surround incestuous relationships, we have to have a different approach to it than the pure repression of our current patriarchal order, because that very repression is what allows for brutal cycles of abuse to continue in patriarchal, nuclear families.
This actually is Freud's point more or less, but about sexual shit in general. Like without fantasy and taboo, sex (especially masturbation) is mindless and repetitive behavior. Of course it's a fundamental aspect of subjectivity, a radically indeterminate excess of experience which is largely unconscious and unknowable. It's something you can't just dismiss as dumb, but it kinda is dumb and you have to reconcile with it.
Maybe some would reject my notion of fantasy and make a claim about love driving sex, but love doesn't function without fantasy. Maybe simply proximity to someone bleeds into unconscious desire and this is where taboo arises. In any case I think Freud is just right as fuck, and everyone who is uncomfortable with that is just uncomfortable with their incestual desires, because literally everyone - though not of their reason or purpose or conscious thought necessarily - does have some version of these desires. I'd even argue here that the people who mute "step-" porn are actually more affected by this, it's obviously more taboo in this case imo. If this was truly like some Kantian categorical imperative, why even ever click on "step-" porn just to mute it? Unconscious desire is a sonofabitch a lot of the time. We can either reconcile ourselves with it consciously or make it a taboo that we must repress and consequently unconsciously desire to transgress. Of course I'm not endorsing incest irl, I more endorse the recognition of our unconsciousness desires being at odds with ourselves. That if we're actually serious about the moral issues that surround incestuous relationships, we have to have a different approach to it than the pure repression of our current patriarchal order, because that very repression is what allows for brutal cycles of abuse to continue in patriarchal, nuclear families.