My guess is that it appeals to a sizable minority of people while at the same time not turning off the majority of people because they know it’s just actors who aren’t truly related.

I prefer my porn not to have any story to it at all, but that doesn’t stop me from watching the stuff which hamfists a story into it. I just skip to what I want to see.

They’re not related so it’s not weird

Most vanilla kink

From the view of the actors too - if you had to pick a kink to act in/start in, it would probably be this one. Not too extreme, not too niche, but spicy enough to attract attention. Doesn’t need extra props or locations, all you do is change the term you call each other by.

Glasses Morty sacrificed something valuable.

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Yeah, this is the same problem I have with ugly people seeking validation and the woke kids feeding them in the web pages where I’m trying to get my dick hard. Get your yuck out of my yum.

Funny thing to be mad about but yeah, annoying.

for some poeple, taboo is the fetish. whatever it is, as long as it’s forbidden

Because it’s the easiest way to fulfill a niche while doing absolutely nothing that requires effort.

Content wise it’s the same as anything else, they just change the title and the actors say “step bro” like ten times in the intro and then it’s just normal porn.

I’d say probably due to the divorce rates and large amount of blended families.

Real talk: I found myself watching step family porn because it’s really good for some reason. I don’t give a shit about the story and skip past it. I don’t have any step siblings and don’t have any familial fantasies or anything weird. I just think the women that end up starring in these look hot. I honestly don’t know why.

I think step porn is so popular because it basically establishes a relationship beforehand, even though it is familial. This gives our guy or whatever proxy for the audience they use a preexisting relationship (creates a taboo and and a reason why they know each other), proximity and opportunities for interaction, no need to go to a bar or whatever (makes the script easy to explain why they are forced together in a situation.

I think it makes creating porn easier since it quickly explains why these two or more people are around each other in a lonely house or hotel room (ease of filming venue), gives them a preexisting relationship with maybe hidden desire (no wooing or any modern prerequisites before meeting a potential sexual partner), it’s a bit taboo but easily ignored by the majority of the audience, and finally an established easy premise to follow and write with a lot of variation to the formula.

One of my favourite features on pornhub (probably exists on other sites too, but only found it there) is that you can actually exclude categories/tags.

Usually the main difference between normal porn and “step-porn” is just the title of the video. Content stays exactly the same.

Supposedly, it was accidental.

Early on, porn sites were less moderated, and thus more friendly to niche kinks.

But this meant people randomly looking would run across those niche kinks, click on them because it’s effectively shock bait, which skewed views. The porn makers saw this increase in views, figured they hit a gold mine, and incest porn took off. As the internet got more moderated, the taboo kinda pushed regular incest to the side, with some sites outright banning it eventually. This left step-porn stuck in the dryer, and the effect spun out of control.

Mind you, this is from some random article I read a few years ago, so it’s second hand and unsourced, so grain of salt, etc.

That being said, it jibes with what I’ve seen over the years. I’ve never been a big porn user, but even a dilettante like me could see trends in what sites were showing up front. I wanna say the step-porn started showing up in otherwise unrelated searches maybe eight years ago? And it was visible as far back as something like 2005ish as something you’d run across on porn sites.

Mind you, I don’t have any issues with step-porn or regular incest porn; it’s almost 100% fake anyway. I don’t kink shame, even with the really “gross” stuff like scat, as long as I don’t have to see it unintentionally. If it was real incest porn, I’d not want to see it, but as long as it’s consenting adults, I ain’t hating. Step-porn that’s real is just regular porn where the performers already knew each other well, it isn’t incest in the important ways.

But, dude, that you’ve never run across any of the ugly stuff just shows how much the internet has changed. There was a time when just being in a non sex related chat room could expose you to some pretty bad stuff. Shit, I still can’t get some of the things I saw back in the very early internet days out of my head.

You’d just be talking about random shit, maybe a movie or whatever, and a proto-troll would dump images of kids, or gore, or both, plus whatever else they had saved up. It took a while before videos could be done like that, and thanks be to the tech gods that there were better tools to reduce that kind of fucked up shit on a given chat. But you’d still get clips dumped in of things you can’t erase from your head.

By the time commercial porn sites came along, they were able to limit the worst of it, and did. But before that, it was a risky thing to run searches that included some words that would pull hits from porn sites that were either unmoderated, or were intended to host the bad stuff. Ffs, there was a time when trying to figure out how to light a photo you intended to take of a kid was just horrifying.

As much as I hate Google, they really did reduce that, then eliminate it to the point that it really isn’t possible to find such things on purpose, much less having it show up like that. Well, I assume so, anyway. Afaik, all that shit went underground, and you can actually search for the Nabokov novel without getting your eyes and soul tainted.

Jfc, I really am glad y’all younger netizens didn’t have to go through that era.