Incest in media

Like in literature, incest is an important yet controversial thematic element and plot device in films, anime and manga, television, and video games.

• Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1975 film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, a loose adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's aforementioned The 120 Days of Sodom, is full of father-daughter incest.
• Mike de Leon's 1980 film Kisapmata (1980) has a depiction of father/daughter incest by rape, marked the first major treatment of incest in the Philippine cinema.
• The Korean thriller Oldboy has father/daughter incest as one of its main plot themes.

• In Incendies, a 2010 French-Canadian film about twin siblings travelling to Lebanon to find their brother and father in obedience to their late mother's will, the twins discover that they are the product of incest between their mother and a son she had in 1970, who raped her aged 18 when she was in prison for murder of a Christian far-right militant. They then give the two envelopes their mother has prepared (labelled "to the father" and "to the son" in French) to the same man after finding him in their own country under an assumed identity.

Yosuga no Sora is one of the most notorious and controversial examples for the depiction of incest in video games, in which the main focus of the story between brother and sister or twin siblings relationship.^[1] In the story, Sora has feelings for her twin brother, Haru, ever since they were kids. After their parents died, they moved back to the old house and Sora has been keeping her feelings suppressed while she fantasizes being with him.

Some video games with themes of incest are the following on the list below:

• The Coffin of Andy and Leyley (2023)

• Incest in literature
• Incest in folklore and mythology
• Incest in the Bible
• Incest pornography – Genre of pornography