I'm sure it doesn't say anything good about me that this made me want a really good Byron biography, because I didn't know that about him. =/

This post is very interesting.

I certainly thought a lot about it when I first started seeing the Peter/Nathan and then writing it. I think that the same things that appeal to me in any fictional romance are there in an incestuous fictional romance that appeals to me, and in many ways are there stronger. It's always the love-in-the-face-of-huge-obstacles thing that makes me interested in a love story, when those obstacles are as little as personality conflicts or as large as something like incest.

And I like it when the characters break upon those conflicts sometimes, which makes me like a good incest story, I guess. I like the tragedy of it.

So I think the taboo/forbidden thing isn't wrong, but it is reductive, it says, "what, gay guys aren't a big enough thrill anymore?" which kind of misses the point.

Thanks for this post!