Confessions of a Gay Porn Writer: What Goes into Writing a Taboo Scene (Fetish Month)

January 21, 2023
DALTON KING

I’ve been told it's Fetish Month here at Cybersocket, so what better way to help celebrate than talk about all of the kinkiest aspects of my job, right? Do be warned though, I don’t get the opportunity to write a lot of kinky scenes. For better or for worse, the majority of people paying for studio porn like it to be more vanilla and so that is what I must oblige them with… EXCEPT when it comes to Next Door Taboo. For anyone not familiar, at Next Door Studios we have a sub-brand called Next Door Taboo which is all about one thing: taboo sex. Which of course, means family scenes. Not biological family, just anything “step.” Stepdads, stepsons, stepbrothers, hell I think we’ve even done a few step-uncles or step-granddads. The point is, I’ve had a ton of experience writing for one particular kink: family role play.

The expectations in place for a Taboo scene vs. an Originals or Twink scene are similar in that they’re supposed to turn you on (obviously) but the way in which I have to go about doing that is completely different. For one, compliance laws make it so that I have to really drive home that no one is blood-related (we’ll get flagged if we don’t state that two characters aren’t blood-related three separate times before sex happens) but also there’s a much larger emphasis on the, well, taboo aspect of it. I think the kink itself has become popular enough that a lot of people make jokes where a lot of porn dialogue is now just “stepbrother help! I’m stuck and I need help getting my juicy ass out of this washing machine :(.“ And I mean, I get it. But obviously, the audiences who like this kink take it seriously so they don’t necessarily want something so campy.

And that’s where the main differences come in between a Taboo scene and an Originals scene: I have to make it somewhat… well, creepy. Something that most people wouldn’t want to happen to them in real life but can fantasize about safely. It means thinking more about power dynamics and power imbalances when writing for stepsons and stepdads and a lot of voyeurism. I feel the best way to describe it is a Next Door Originals scene is supposed to be a scene that you could fantasize about having as a gay man just out in the world while a Taboo scene is a scene diving into the darker fantasies you keep locked away from your average partner.

I think one of the best Taboo scenes I’ve written that exemplifies all of what I said is the scene “Caught by my Stepdad” starring Christian Wilde, Trevor Harris, and Des Irez (a Fleshbot Scene of the Year winner, might I add!) Christian watching his stepson have sex before seducing him, the regret the stepson has after he realized he gave into his demons… it represents what people love about this kink, at least in my opinion. In real life, it feels wrong. It feels bad. But in a fantasy… it can feel so right. At least according to our subscribers. My own personal kinks are for me and the partners I share them with and us only .