Friday's Erotic Review : Taboo District

Icarus Publishing’ Taboo District
4 Bold & The Beautiful Incest Relationship References out of 5

Ah, the Bold & The Beautiful. Cannon fodder every few months for reviews.
I think it’s safe once again to bring up a certain psychatrist from the show since, well, it’ll probably be Summer or Fall 2008 before this comes close to seeing print so… go figure.

If it isn’t the psychiatrist who runs over people with her car (only weeks later to be run over by an oil tanker), it’s the hot manmeat family relation male on skanky throw thyself at the guy like you’re nuts female incest that doesn’t seem to leave the runway because the father is Ye’ Impregnator of Los Angeles (you too can own both the clothing and offspring of Ridge Forrester!) (I’m behind on the weird monkeyshines at the end of 2007 but I heard it’s all Baby Nonsense).

Long story short this month’s pick from Icarus Publishing is something about incest… but only somewhat, as it seems my one problem with this title is that it also dabbles in the NOT so taboo things.

A good chuck of Taboo District is really taboo content, believe it or not. However if there is another flaw in this title is that the taboo is fixated only on loving brother and sister consensual sex, and that’s about it.

No Cecila hot motherly sex (M.I.L.F. I think it would be referred to as).

No sister on sister sex… no, I don’t think I would swing the other way (mostly because there is a ton of gay erotica (and a lot of recommendable stuff that doesn’t disgrace the genre) out there and a near drought of lesbian erotica to speak of, so they have more than sufficient representation out there in my opinion).

No creepy father/daughter sex… well, that’s OK I guess.

And yes, no cousins (but that’s criticism of another soap, mainly the 70 year old Guiding Light).

And if you are wondering there IS some school sex, but it doesn’t have that Innocence oh god what a lovely couple feel to it.
One is a young woman getting it on with her guidance counselor for a better placement on her road to college.
One is a young woman manhandled against her will.
And one is a threesome of female students on one shy male (which is kinda nice except none of them seemed willing to take their tops off).

Also, as more of a warning than a downer, be advised that SOME of the stories cuts off abruptly just as the story starts to roll along well. For instance in one story, where a sister wants her brother to help her experiment on things she read in magazines, we get right up to them consenting to full out sex only for the scene to cut abruptly and the story end quickly. Just as the story got good it ended fast, which might not be your cup of Earl Grey (hot).

Finally, in closing, a few of the stories could have been replaced with more taboo stories.

A story about nurse on patient sex? Is that really all that taboo considering I’ve done some reviews to date of nurse on patient sex titles? Come on, it isn’t all that taboo (at least in the telling if not in the practice since we’ve done abit of reviews of the topic to date). How about female cops being raped by jerks? Again not so taboo since it’s a topic we’ve seen before, so can that really be all that taboo if we’ve seen it before?

It’s a solid enough read, yes, it’s just not perfect.

The brother on sister stuff is cute (even one rare older sister making love to her younger brother (but not THAT young, it‘s still all proper age limit and all here), but the additional stuff that isn’t all that taboo isn’t cute (in that it’s OK but we could have had more “taboo” content). Cutting short of a few stories’ sex scenes wasn’t nice, but overall it’s still a nice well rounded packet of sex scenes and story.

Thus in the end? I was more pleased with the content of the title than disappointed, it’s just not perfect.

Taboo District rallies in the end for 4 cuddly brother/sister lovings out of 5.