Laying bare the psychology of father daughter fantasy in porn with the help of the company that tackles stars’ real life daddy-daughter fantasies on film, PureTaboo.com.
Delve into your heart’s deepest desire. Dare to open up your own personal Pandora’s Box of secret fetishes.
Some of your so-called forbidden’ fetishes involve a power dynamic not too dissimilar to those with which we are all familiar in our own families, functional or dysfunctional, happy or unhealthy.
Here, where the lines of incest blur, beyond that painfully unsexy sex scene between Jon Snow and Deanerys Targarean, we have the ubiquitous Daddy/Daughter Fetish.
Whether it’s crush on a boss, someone with more experience in the sack, or a light spanking, we thrive off sexual hierarchies; you only need to watch Cruel Intentions to understand why: They can be really hot.
That explains why, according to a 2014 Montreal University study, 60 per cent of women reported fantasising over being submissive.
Porn pushes the boundaries of power play, and translates these normal bedroom behaviours into something taboo and extraordinarily titillating.
What is Fauxcest?
A company at the forefront of this is PureTaboo. Founder, Bree Mills told us exactly why she spends her creative juices constructing ‘fauxcest’ porn that “explores the darker side of sexuality and forbidden fantasies”.
As a storyteller, she wants to shock and arouse you with stories that will “leave you thinking about it for days afterwards”.
Bree continued: “Family roleplay themes are arguably the most popular niche in adult entertainment right now and the dad/daughter fantasy is very sought after.
“Our relationships with our parents are paramount in our psychological development and adult identities so ‘fauxcest’ strikes a chord with a lot of people.
“Power dynamics are at the core of what drives human beings, both sexually and non-sexually. Far from being taboo, I think this dynamic is actually very common in society.”
In her experience, power play appeals to everyone, particularly ‘young women who seek out father figures and older men who enjoy spoiling young women’.
But Bree notes the terminology is being adopted by a large number of couples in relationships with a dominant partner.
PureTaboo founder, Bree Mills (right), on set with cast and crew
Daddy issues 101
Getting personal, the self-confessed ‘gold star’ lesbian remarked: “Hell, I’m in a lesbian relationship with a younger woman and even I like the ‘daddy’ nickname.
“What makes it a fetish is the attention being a daddy brings. When you take care of a younger woman, you make yourself her knight in shining armour. She needs you, she’s going to want to please you in return, she’s going to want to be submissive.
“So, you get to get off on the power of being the one who takes care of her. When you describe it like that, it doesn’t seem all that taboo.”
Mills quickly added the lines get blurred when real life parental authority involvement occurs, or the fantasy “raises the question about whether there could be a sexual motive behind a girl’s drive for fatherly attention”.
“Then, it becomes Jung’s Electra Complex theory,” Mills elaborated.
So, let’s get psychoanalytical – because smart is sexy – and delve into the so-called feminine Oedipus attitude.
It details a young girl in competition with her mother for her father’s love, attention and even possession.
Indeed, researchers at the University of Utah have found a ‘robust association … observed between fathering quality and sexual risk taking among adolescent girls’, in essence confirming there is indeed truth to the much-maligned ‘Daddy Issue’ myth.
Anecdotal evidence even suggests some women use sexual ‘fauxcest’ role play to overcome past real life trauma involving family members, taking control of ordeals through healthy and consenting fantasy.
Dr. Patrick Carnes, the academic who popularized the term ‘sex addiction’, said: “Sexual fantasizing can be healthy, particularly for a reasonably healthy couple that uses their increased excitement to move toward rather than away from the partner.”
So, the notion that ‘Daddy Issues’ always translate into a negative sexual experience for either the younger woman or her partner is old hat.
Breaking Taboos
Bree is here to help throw off those social shackles: “I want to take taboo seriously and present these popular themes in a new, jarring way. There is nothing more unnerving, especially within taboo content, than stripping away the comedy and sugar-coating and showing the situation for what it really is.”
Executed with the precision and depth of an art house feature film in a docu-series style, PureTaboo’s latest production takes a look inside a step-father’s relationship with his daughter as it reaches, as Bree puts it, “breaking point”.
No spoilers: The daughter’s rebellion and her step-father’s pent up frustration to his wife’s illness climaxes when “a very normal form of discipline they’ve used for years spirals out of control and, before they know it, they’ve crossed a sexual line”.
Bree adds: “The appeal of a story like this is witnessing the breaking point as it happens; this father figure and his step-daughter have been in each other’s lives for a long time, with sexual tension slowly building under the surface.
“Taboos, by definition, are the things which you are not supposed to see. They are usually the first things you look for when you search for porn.”
It’s a tale as old as time, dating back to biblical times, but PureTaboo flesh the fetish out with three-dimensional daddies, and moral complexities.
Bree admits her sexuality helps her “see things through a male gaze”, while fully relating to the female perspective adding: “I take equal interest in both my male and female characters in a market that typically treats men as stunt-cocks.
“To me, they are fascinating and complex creatures and I like to explore their psyches as much as my female characters.”
Gritty realism
The narratives are driven by Mills’ adherence to the rules of cinematography and dramatic acting, not to mention “great hardcore sex” with a dollop of taboo!
If you’re into ‘fauxcest’, don’t feel ashamed. You’re not alone and you’re not unusual.
A study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine discovered sexual fantasies vary greatly, meaning that few can be considered rare or unusual.
Some of the stars of Bree’s productions, she explains, are personally interested in bringing daddy/daughter stories to life, “incorporating aspects of their own experience into their characters.”
It further amplifies the realism, Bree enthuses, recalling, “It’s not uncommon for cast members to cry during production. I’ve been on set where everyone was left in tears by how emotional the scene became.”
Bree takes “that level of true dramatic method acting” to be a revelation and further “proof that we have incredibly talented and brave actors waiting to show themselves”.
Sexual exploration of your Daddy Issues, playful or painful, are worthy. Bree suggests you do your research and find like-minded people who share your ultimate PureTaboo.
Taboo cries out to be explored. After all, it’s a concept that has been live and kicking in your life, since you were merely a glint in your father’s eye.
Referring to a film titled Bad Uncle, a pseudo-crime drama lifted directly from real-life experiences, Bree concluded “I bring these darker shades of real-life experience into my fictitious episodes to subtly critique what gets us off”.
And is there any sexier way to explore daddy/daughter power dynamics than with porn that goes out of its way to give you a good critiquing?
I think not.
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