The Mitchell family welcomes a new family to their Los Angeles neighborhood, only to discover they are evangelical Christians, which poses a problem for their incestuous lifestyle. So they set about converting their neighbors to their family-friendly lifestyle, only to discover there is a monster in their midst. This story is darker than my past ones, including rape, torture, and non-consensual sex (but there's lots of joyous, consensual sex too).
Size: 204 KB (39,266 words)
Genre: Incest
Sex Contents: Much Sex
Tags: Ma/Fa, mt/ft, Ma/ft, mt/Fa, Fa/Fa, ft/ft, Fa/ft, Mult, Teenagers, NonConsensual, Rape, BiSexual, Fiction, Incest, Mother, Son, Brother, Sister, Father, Daughter, Rough, Sadistic, Spanking, Torture, Group Sex, Orgy, Swinging, Anal Sex, Analingus, Double Penetration, Oral Sex, Sex Toys, Squirting, Prostitution
Review by icehead [other reviews by icehead]
Reviewed:
When society in general talks about incest, it's thought of as something horrible; a form of abuse in the same category as rape and pedophilia. It seems it's only in erotic stories like the ones showcased on this site that we see a more benign depiction of incest, with family members enjoying a consensual and mutually fulfilling sexual relationship. Well here's a story that seems determined to justify this positive depiction by directly contrasting it with that darker one.
This is the story of the incestuous Mitchell family, who meet some new neighbors, the ultra conservative Evangelical Christian Reeds. These new neighbors are of the "premarital sex is a sin" and "homosexuality is an abomination" mindset, which poses a potential risk to the Mitchells and their lifestyle. Not to mention, unbeknownst to Mrs. Reed, her husband is an abusive monster who is raping their teenage daughters under the guise of preparing them to please their future husbands as "God intends," and who sadistically tortures them as punishment when they "stray from the path."
I normally hate stories about rape and torture and S&M, but the context here is what allows me to stomach it. The scenes of abuse are not meant to titillate anyone's fetishes, but are deliberately meant to disturb the reader and showcase Mr. Reed as a bad person whom we want to see go down. Contrasted with this, the happy and fully consensual action that takes place between the Mitchells, as well as their other neighbors--a young swinger couple, and a Japanese mother and daughter who also have an incestuous relationship--is positively beautiful.
There's also the subject of "conversion," which again the story shows us two versions of. The Mitchells are interested in, as the title suggests, converting the neighbors to their lifestyle by carefully showing them the benefits and letting them try it out. Conversely, the Reeds start out looking at their neighbors with disapproval, and a determination to "save" them by "bringing them to God." This is continuing the earlier theme of something being forced on someone versus being allowed free will. It's in this way that the Mitchells, while practicing a way of life that most of society would consider wrong, are clearly shown as the good guys in contrast with the (initially) less tolerant and open-minded Reeds. I just wish the story had found more to do with this.
If I can point to one issue with this story, it's that the narrative feels rushed. Things tend to progress a little too quickly to be entirely believable; members of the Reed family go from preaching sin and damnation to letting themselves be freely seduced in the span of a few paragraphs. The characters are kind of two-dimensional; I often had to stop and try to remember which sister was which because none of them was characterized thoroughly enough to stand out. And the end resolution came much too easily; I found myself thinking "If that was all it took, why didn't you just do that in the first place?"
'Converting the Neighbors' is an enjoyable incest story, but one that would have benefitted from being much longer and more fleshed out. A little more meat on the bones in between all the sex might have turned a pretty good story into a really good one. But for what it is, it's still much more my cup of tea than a lot of the other fetish stories I've read.
