The Taboo Challenge

The taboo challenge

I was meeting Anne for a drink to celebrate the end of the week. Like every Friday afternoon, we met in the bar across the street for margaritas and salted pretzels. I had already ordered cocktails for two and was waiting for my friend to arrive. I have known Anne practically my whole life, but we had kind of lost contact after we both got married. But, a couple of years ago, the company I worked for had outgrown the office building it was in and moved to a new location in one of the high-rises that had been erected as part of an urban renewal project. It turned out, Anne was working in the very same building.

It was a surprise to face her in the elevator one morning, but despite the years, we connected immediately and after work we went to a little bar across the street to get reacquainted. Like me, she was recently divorced and mother of a nineteen year old son, so we had a lot in common and we talked and laughed for hours. It was the first of many margarita-fueled Friday afternoons during which we gossiped and shared our secrets.

I didn’t have to wait long for Anne to arrive. She sat down at the table and immediately started talking. I just nodded and sipped my cocktail while she rambled on. Sometimes the only thing to do was to sit and listen. She’d run out of air soon enough.
As usual, after a few drinks, the subject turned to sex. A mischievous twinkle in her eyes told me that moment had just arrived.

Anne emptied her glass and signed to the waiter for two more cocktails. Then she leaned over to me and began to talk in a low voice.
“Have you heard of this thing called the taboo challenge?” she asked.
“The what?” I asked, thinking I had misheard.
“Taboo-challenge” she repeated, overly stretching the words.
“Right, that’s what I thought you said” I laughed and emptied my glass, giving it to the waiter who placed a new glass in front of me. I waited for the guy to walk out of hearing distance and continued. “Now, what the fuck is a taboo challenge?”
Anne looked around to see if anyone was listening and scooted closer.
“It’s the latest fad, or meme, as they call it. Lots of kids are doing it. Have you ever heard of an 80’s porn movie called Taboo II?”
“Yeah, it’s about this family that ends up having sex together, right?”
“Right. It was the highest selling erotic film before the invention of the internet”
“I think I’ve seen that one, Michael used to own a copy on VHS. The mom… what’s her name?”
“Honey Wilder?”
“Right, that’s her. Michael used to say I looked just like her.”
“Well, you do have big tit-”
“Hey!” I yelled, slapping her arm in feigned indignation. Actually, I was quite proud of my ‘girls’, and Anne knew it. I looked around, but nobody was paying much attention to two secretaries having a few margaritas.

“So anyway, you were talking about a challenge?”
“Erm, right. What they do is, somebody nominates a brother and sister, and they have to watch the movie together. And every time there’s a sex scene, they have to take a shot of vodka or tequila.”
“Okayyy… is that it?”
“Basically, yes… well, the challenge is to watch it from the beginning to the end, without having sex together. Apparently, it is not as easy as it seems”

I tried to appear moderately interested, but my body was beginning to betray me. Most noticeable, my nipples were trying to poke holes in my blouse. “And then what?” I asked, trying to sound casually.
“After they’re finished… either way… they post a video online in which they nominate two or more other sets of siblings.”

Anne didn’t know this, but I was no stranger to incest. Not only had I lost my virginity to my brother, but we became avid fuck buddies for many years since. It even went so far that our parents allowed us to share a double bed together, knowing it would be futile to keep us separated. It had been by far the best time of my life.

While I was lost in thought, Anne had retrieved her phone from her bag and was nimbly typing on the small on-screen keyboard. She then handed it to me. “Look, there’s hundreds of videos on this one website alone. Just press one that’s tagged ‘Taboo Challenge’.”
I did as she said and a grainy video appeared of a naked girl sitting on a sofa. The camera moved around a bit and then an equally naked boy sat down next to the girl.
“Hi, I am Ben” the guy said, “and this is my sister Amy. We got nominated for the Taboo challenge by Trevor and Michelle, and…” He looked to the girl next to him and sort of giggled nervously.
“…we just had sex together.” the girl finished the sentence, also with a nervous giggle. She returned his gaze and patted her brother on the leg. It was obvious neither if them had any regrets or feelings of shame, and they were likely to have sex again.
“Now we would like to nominate Josh and Lauri…” she added, looking into the camera again.
“…and Dylan and Denise” the brother finished.

The guy then bent forward towards the camera and the screen went black. Back on the main page, I tapped on another image. The video was more or less the same as the previous one, except this girl’s face was dripping with cum.
“So how do you know all of this?” I asked as I scrolled through screen after screen.
She looked around again before she replied.
“Luann told me about it. You didn’t hear about this from me, but apparently, she caught Steven and Alice while they were… you know… in front of the TV”
“He was fucking his sister?” I whispered.
Anne nodded and took a big sip of her cocktail.
“So this is real then? I mean…”
“Well for them it was, but I guess most of these videos are fake.”

I played another movie, posted only a minute ago. It was a video of a threesome no less. One girl and two guys lay naked in a bed together. The likeness between them was undeniable. The boys looked like they were twins, and she could easily be their real sister as well. One of the brothers was spooning the sister, softly thrusting his hips while she jacked off the other brother, who was talking into the camera.

Dammit, my panties were swamped! Imagine, even if only a few percent of the videos was real, that would still be a lot. Hundreds, maybe thousands of siblings were now tasting the illicit pleasures of incest, and all because of an internet meme and a thirty year old fuck flick. Oh, what an age we live in…

“And all of this is started just by watching one video?” I asked as indifferently as possible.
“Yeah, at least that’s how the story goes. Supposedly, it has something to do with pheromones and such. Basically, it is impossible for a man to watch porn with a woman and not want to have sex with her, no matter who she is.”
“I have to say, that sounds perfectly credible. Just smile at a man and he’s ready for sex. Imagine what a bit of porn does to them.”
“Yeah, but still… these are not just any ordinary boys and girls, they are brothers and sisters. And don’t forget, the girl has to do it too”
“Well, that’s what the shots are for, right? Porn and alcohol is a dangerous mix”
“but any girl? I mean… ANY girl?”
“Well, maybe not if she’s gay, but otherwise… Yes, i wouldn’t be surprised if it really was true”
“Can’t be. Sure there are a lot of sluts, but…”
“Oh, we all are Anne,” I chuckled, “some are just better at hiding it”
“I don’t believe that”

Anne had run out of arguments, but she was not quite ready to acquiesce. She ran her fingertip around the rim of her glass and then licked the salt of her finger as she thought of a way to prove me wrong.

“What if…” she said, her voice trailing off before she finished her sentence, as if she wasn’t sure to say it.
“What did you have in mind?”
“Jay”
My son. I was surprised by my friends lewd suggestion. Amused too. “Oh, that’s sick… but I like the way you’re thinking”
“Do you think you would get so drunk, or horny, that you’d be willing to have sex with your own son?”
“I’m afraid I really might do just that… and probably enjoy it too”
“No!”
“Hey, I’m just being honest”

I actually was being honest.