Forbidden by Design: Your Guide to Taboo Candy Shorts

Forbidden on paper, fiction on screen

Taboo covers attractions that break a social rule: an affair, an off-limits partner, a royal guard who must never touch the queen. Many entries are step-family stories, and in those everyone is an adult with no blood relation between the characters.

It is the second-largest category, with more than 30 series, and all of it is fictional role-play for viewers 18 and over. The teasers hint rather than show, in the tone of a streaming-drama blurb. It is entertainment, a fantasy you can step into for a few minutes at a time.

Taboo Candy Shorts picks with a strong hook

• Sworn to the Queen: a guard stands outside the queen's bedchamber where one touch means death, and she keeps daring him.
• My Ex's Hot Dad: dumped for another woman, Sienna takes revenge by seducing her ex's silver-fox father, and the affair turns into a family war.
• Room 742: a keycard opens room 742, a stranger is already inside, and then his wife knocks, unsurprised, because she picked him herself.
• Courtney's Secret: a new renter is drawn to his landlord's alluring wife until a secret playroom beneath her home shows the whole neighborhood is in on it.
• Bonnie Blue Is My Stepsister: the official digital twin of adult creator Bonnie Blue moves in next to her stepbrother, and everyone has an opinion about her.

A quick word on the Spicy badge

Look for Candy's Spicy badge, which marks adult content on some series. Episode 1 plays free without an account and stays suggestive. Episode 2 needs a free account, and from Episode 3 each episode costs 12 tokens or comes with Premium, where the most explicit scenes sit. Premium starts at $3.99 a month on the annual plan and includes 100 tokens per month.