pseudoincest

Noun

pseudoincest (uncountable)

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.1986, Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty Brnénské university, volumes 30-34, page 67
   • 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...2009, Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, page 216
2. Pornography or erotica focused on sexual situations between nonconsanguineous relatives.
   • (Moore explains, for instance, that in 2015, pseudoincest porn was a popular genre.)2016, Shira Tarrant, The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 37
   • The very week my sock puppet author frenemy Lexi Wood released her stepdaddy/stepdaughter novella Dance for Daddy, Salome, Amazon started banning “pseudoincest” erotica.2017, Giselle Renard, How to Fail Miserably at Writing, unnumbered page

   Synonyms:

   fauxcest, PI