Pseudoincest

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Sexual involvement between family members who are not blood relations (e.g., siblings by adoption, stepparents and stepchildren, in-laws). uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Pornography or erotica focused on sexual situations between nonconsanguineous relatives. uncountable

    "(Moore explains, for instance, that in 2015, pseudoincest porn was a popular genre.)"

Synonyms

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fauxcestpi

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From pseudo- + incest.

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