Authors often focus on "chosen family" or complex emotional trauma to justify the shift from a familial bond to a romantic one in a fictional setting.

Psychologists often view the consumption of taboo media as a form of "safe transgression." By engaging with stories that involve forbidden relationships, audiences can explore extreme emotions and social "what-ifs" within the safe confines of a fictional world.

Major platforms (such as YouTube, mainstream social media, and traditional publishers) have zero-tolerance policies regarding the depiction of non-consensual or illegal incestuous acts.