My (19F) mother (43) has been OBSESSED with reading romance books for the past year. When I say obsessed, I mean very obsessed, and it’s the only thing she wants to do/talk about.
Ive been through a couple of big readin phases myself so she loves to tell me about the books that she is reading to see if I’ve already read it, however I have been in kind of a dry spell due to being busy. Still she always recommends me what she’s reading regardless.
My mother gets her book recommendations from TikTok like most do, and she saw this one about a book that was banned on Amazon. Me being the queen of finding books online, i helped her find it with absolutely no about what the book was about.
Well we were sitting on the couch the other day and she was describing to me what was happening in her book, nothing unusual. She was going on about how it’s a romance about these identical twin boys and their stepdad, and while I thought huh okay, I can’t really judge since I read lots of reverse harems. However she then proceeded to tell me that the twin boys lose their virginity to each other?!
I was really shocked by this and my initial reaction was “Oh my God I couldn’t read that what the fuck?” But then she started going on about how it’s only wrong because of social norms and that It’s okay because of how close they are. I stood with my opinion that I didn’t like it and personally would not be comfortable reading something like that. She started saying that she’s just more open-minded than me and that it’s really not that wrong. I brought up the hasburg jaw and the Whitaker family on how genetically it is wrong, but again she argued that it’s okay because they were the same sex.
She’s honestly making me feel crazy for being weirded out about this, and I don’t know if I’m overreacting or not. Am I not being open minded enough or is this really okay?
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Backup of the post’s body: My (19F) mother (43) has been OBSESSED with reading romance books for the past year. When I say obsessed, I mean very obsessed, and it’s the only thing she wants to do/talk about.
Ive been through a couple of big readin phases myself so she loves to tell me about the books that she is reading to see if I’ve already read it, however I have been in kind of a dry spell due to being busy. Still she always recommends me what she’s reading regardless.
My mother gets her book recommendations from TikTok like most do, and she saw this one about a book that was banned on Amazon. Me being the queen of finding books online, i helped her find it with absolutely no about what the book was about.
Well we were sitting on the couch the other day and she was describing to me what was happening in her book, nothing unusual. She was going on about how it’s a romance about these identical twin boys and their stepdad, and while I thought huh okay, I can’t really judge since I read lots of reverse harems. However she then proceeded to tell me that the twin boys lose their virginity to each other?!
I was really shocked by this and my initial reaction was “Oh my God I couldn’t read that what the fuck?” But then she started going on about how it’s only wrong because of social norms and that It’s okay because of how close they are. I stood with my opinion that I didn’t like it and personally would not be comfortable reading something like that. She started saying that she’s just more open-minded than me and that it’s really not that wrong. I brought up the hasburg jaw and the Whitaker family on how genetically it is wrong, but again she argued that it’s okay because they were the same sex.
She’s honestly making me feel crazy for being weirded out about this, and I don’t know if I’m overreacting or not. Am I not being open minded enough or is this really okay?
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>I brought up the hasburg jaw and the Whitaker family on how genetically it is wrong, but again she argued that it’s okay because they were the same sex.
I mean, your two arguments don’t really have any affect on hers since it is two guys
There are so many bizarre smutty romance books that 40-50 year old moms love to read, this one doesn’t even seem that over the top compared to some
I read weird books, with weird groupings of partners. But I’m with you, that’s weird af. Incest is not sexy.
Just the fact that you can share those books with your mom seems weird to me 😂
You can read what you like and your mom is free to read what she likes. At the end of the day it’s fiction so who cares what fictional characters are doing.
Lol not trying to be insensitive but i guess you can just chalk it up to everyone likes their fucked up shit. I too think it’s fucked but smut readers are a rare breed in their own ways. Haha. For instance my roomate who almost never leaves or goes outside just because of instilled fear of men attacking or kidnapping, but will fucking talk about how hot a rape/torture scene is in a fucking book. It just makes no fucking sense so don’t try to make sense of it I guess
I mean, as long as it stays in fantasy land, I just say NMK (not my kink) and move on.
Now if she’s treading into dangerous territory, (like if she starts checking out young boys in real life) then I’d start to get a little worried.
But outside of that, let her have her smut fantasies!
Speaking for the generation that read Flowers in the Attic in junior high, sometimes people just like to read weird stuff! It doesn’t mean they’d support it in real life.
FFS, that is not a romance novel. That promotes incest.
Let your mom know she’s getting into weird territory, and she’s on a slippery slope. Don’t accept it as normal, and you don’t have to bring it up again if she doesn’t, but you might be the only person to let her know.
What the actual fuck is going on with books these days? When I heard that reading was making a comeback, it made me excited… and then I found out that it’s pretty much just poorly written kink porn and actual literature is still more or less ignored.
Are the twins hot? If they are, it’s cool.
Mom’s a gooner and this is how you find out.
Bro gtfo
> book recommendations from TikTok
Enough said (/hj)
Bro it’s absolutely fine if you don’t like something.. tell her everyone has their preferences and beliefs and she can enjoy whatever she wants but not to force such beliefs on other people or invalidate the opinions of other people. You’re free to like and dislike whatever.
I promise you there’s other ways of bonding
ngl personally I cannot imagine ever discussing romance stories with my own rigidly traditional mother.. I think we’re fine discussing reddit AITAH stories LOLEw.
Twincest was a letter to Dear Prudence about 23 years ago.
Im a twin.
Im not open-minded at all about this.
From a young age, my mom, like any mom of girls, taught us to stay away from creepy men, especially if they REALLY liked that we were twins. My first boyfriend wanted to sleep with me AND my sister.
She needs to know that this affects real people. Im not a porn category, im not an outlandish fantasy, im a person, and I was once a child that had to know that people would think these kinds of things about me. I was once a teenager that had to deal with my boyfriend thinking about my sister because people like YOUR MOM make it easier to believe its ok.
Most readers do not get their recommendations from TikTok
you don’t have to like it, totally fine, but she’s also allowed to like it. anything goes in the confines of fiction. it’s once it leaves fiction and starts affecting the way you view the real world is when it becomes an issue.
i enjoy the weird shit, incest fiction included, which is something i’m not ashamed about. but i am extremely vocal against IRL incest. they’re not mutually exclusive.
the argument that incest is wrong because of procreation is only half right but overall not one i would use. incest is wrong because it is one of the most psychologically damaging things that could happen to a person—they’ve done studies about this. even in cases that seem “mutual”, it’s always imbalanced and never truly consensual.
regardless, it’s only worth arguing about if she genuinely thinks incest is okay IRL. otherwise it’s not worth arguing about because fictional characters aren’t real and neither is what happens to them. it’s just not for you, which is totally acceptable.
Female equivalent of watching porn
Throw those trash “books” out
Um, most people don’t get their book recommendations from TikTok.
Get her into Chuck Tingle. That’s definitely less weird.
Yeahhhh incest is one of my few hard no’s. I don’t care if it’s fictional, if you’re getting off from the idea of it I really don’t wanna be associated with you.