you're fine dw, and you're not wrong either, i am aroace! its repercussions only apply to my direct reality, however. I find the suggestion of having sex with anybody repulsive, and I experience no attraction to real people. personally, I only enjoy eroticism and sex within the realm of far away concepts and ideas, in places that are very much not real, and only so long as these ideas are reasonably removed from my own life. i'm not an actor here, just the backstage director.

you also wouldn't be wrong or disrespectful to make the assumption that somebody who is ace might not have much interest and desire to interact with sexual topics much, be it irl or in fiction. until you're told otherwise by somebody you know who's ace, that should be the reflex! you shouldn't associate that with prudish mindsets, sex negativity and innocence, though: there's also a lot more nuance to the relationship that asexual people have with sex than you'd expect too. you'd be surprised at the number of people that are either ace and/or deeply sex-repulsed that find community in the offline bdsm kink scene, for exemple. pleasure can be sensual, psychologically erotic and not at all sexual, for a lot of people, it can be found in spaces completely divorced from reality, such as in my case, and there's little correlation between a person's sexuality and their fictional artistic preferences! :]

when it comes to the trope of incest, there are honestly a lot of reasons why somebody might enjoy it. heavily depends on the character dynamics imo. parent/child has a different weight to sibling incest, and gender often lends itself to specific kinks too. father/daughter is often illustrated with stepfordization, bimbofication and daddy kink overtones, for exemple, while father/son lends itself to military-esque degradation, sadistic discipline and prey/predator training, among other things. people love studying and messing around with the connection between familial abuse and its inherent ties with gender roles, whether it be through an intense 50k multichapter character study fic or a 5k pwp babytrap cumbrain fic lmao. tbh I actually tend to dislike parent/child incest in media, and I think makiden has been one of the few rare pairings that I've ever taken a liking to, when it comes to that dynamic. funny enough too that, beyond csm, I usually don't go for sibling incest for the trope in of itself either. most of the time, it's just that the sibling pairing that I love usually incorporates many of the concepts that I already enjoy beyond it: doomed loyalty, idealization and devotion, protective, posessive and/or obsessive behaviour, unique, intense and lifelong intimacy and understanding of the other à la "nobody gets or sees you the way I do/I am your one true equal/it's always been just us against the world", conflict around identity diverging, mirroring and/or merging, imbalanced relationships around envy and hatred/admiration and love of the other, codependency, forbidden love that transgresses upon what is virtuous, blood bindings, guilt and fear of what you love and the push and pull that it creates, etc. sibling relationships in fiction are usually written by their authors around narratives and conflicts that I'll love regardless of familial status, though sometimes I just think that their displays of intimacy are tooth-rottingly cute and tender too. I'm not always super picky lol.

I think my fixation on the trope of incest with csm in particular stems from makima's character and her unique execution of how family as a structure works? and how the characters that she imposes that structure on navigate it, whether they bend the knee to the power that it grants them or resist it for the freedom that they seek. the structure of family in a lot of artworks usually exists more as a backdrop for the actual story playing out, and I like how fujimoto works on it with awareness and intent. it makes for fun layers to mess around with!

hope these paragraphs of explanation weren't too confusing and gave you some answers to your questions. o7