Incesty Pairings

[deird_lj]

So, I come bearing pollage.

I've seen a lot of conversations about fanfic recently, in which people have discussed different pairings and said "That pairing squicks me out. It's... almost incestuous."

And I was wondering which pairings are most likely to strike people that way.


So, under the cut is a poll, full of pairings!
Rate each pairing from 1 (not incestuous in the slightest) to 10 (really really incestuous and squicky).




[Poll #1524132]


Questions? Comments?

Comments

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, I find the power relationship squick...strange. (Which is not to say I advocate it...just that I find it unsquicky.) To make a probably unhelpful analogy--Xander/Faith is physically a power imbalance; we know for a fact that she's capable of holding him down and having her way with him, if she wants. But as far as I know, most people are unsquicked by the earlier scene between the two in "The Zeppo". Likewise, legal status aside for the moment, the mere existence of a social power differential between two lovers leaves me unbothered; there would have to be something like orders given before I would be disturbed by it.

Can I see the difficulty from a legal standpoint? I suppose. But it's something that would never have occurred to me on my own.