How do justify incest ?

[Zeb_Carter]

What is it about "incest" that makes it taboo in the first place? I have had sex with my sister Lynn. Why? Just for mutual sexual pleasure and comfort. Is there some reason that society should have a problem with that? I am not sure the question "why" is the best focus. I think the question should just be, "Why not." And in finding the answer to that question you will likely discover that there are layers of crap hiding the facts.

Incest has been considered wrong since long ago. The primary reason was because of pregnancy. The prodigy produced were mostly "monster" deformed children. That was because most incest at the time was between father daughter pairs or mother son or sister brother. It was outlawed mainly for that reason. The church also proclaimed it as against God's law mainly for the same reasons.

In today's society after having been taboo for such a long time, it has become on of the biggest turn on's. While I wouldn't practice it myself, I have no problem with others practicing incest as long as there are no pregnancies produced, unless it is under a physicians supervision.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Would you say that incest is an attraction to family or just that the person your attracted to is family?

That's a fun question and I thought instantly of our readers. For many of our readers, I believe the attraction IS the ultimate taboo of incest, that's what is getting them off. They could read the exact same descriptions of sex between a man and a woman and find it fun, but if that man and woman happen to be related, then that family relationship cranks it up to eleven for their libido.

IRL, I doubt most instances of non-abusive incest are motivate by "Ooo, I'm going to do my sister/mother/auntie." IRL, it's about the sex, pure and simple. Opportunity and willingness to "go there" meets the need for release, regardless of our relationship with the person.

Same could be said of some instance of homosexuality amongst people who don't perceive themselves as gay. It's not that they're gay, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

 

[Nezhul]

Is there some reason that society should have a problem with that?

The same reason why society should have a problem with gay people, hippies, people who don't believe in your god of choice, people who tell you the earth is round, etc.

Society ALWAYS finds a reason to have a very valuable opinion about something that you do.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The same reason why society should have a problem with gay people, hippies, people who don't believe in your god of choice, people who tell you the earth is round, etc.

Society ALWAYS finds a reason to have a very valuable opinion about something that you do.

Actually, there are always some who have the exact opposite view as you do, just to be contrary. No matter what the subject they always take the other side, just to make peoples lives difficult.

 

[amofiga]

I wrote a story that's posted here called "Velvet Taboo" about brother/sister incest and tried to show it as a sincere intimate lifelong relationship rather than some sort of sin. Yes, it's not a good idea if you plan to procreate, but I've long held the thought that simple "animal" sex between brother and sister can be a wonderful thing with each of then helping the other to learn about having a wide variety of sex. If it's just sex, I see no problem. If it's like a marriage where children would be involved..... absolute no no from the DNA standpoint.

 

[Bill_Cosplay]

What is it about "incest" that makes it taboo in the first place? I have had sex with my sister Lynn.

It's only taboo if you're ugly. Pretty people get away with a lot of shit.

 

[Hypoxia]

I wrote a story that's posted here called "Velvet Taboo" about brother/sister incest and tried to show it as a sincere intimate lifelong relationship rather than some sort of sin.

That's consensual first-degree incest -- quite rare IRL but just fine in LIT fantasyland.

If bro+sis were royals in some historic cultures, marriage would be mandated. That is about as much reality as we can fit into LIT Incest tales. For a twist, the royal siblings (Egyptian or Tahitian or whatever) don't really like each other, are not attracted, but MUST marry and fuck publicly. Any non-incest sex is illicit.

 

[stickygirl]

That's a fun question and I thought instantly of our readers. For many of our readers, I believe the attraction IS the ultimate taboo of incest, that's what is getting them off. They could read the exact same descriptions of sex between a man and a woman and find it fun, but if that man and woman happen to be related, then that family relationship cranks it up to eleven for their libido.

IRL, I doubt most instances of non-abusive incest are motivate by "Ooo, I'm going to do my sister/mother/auntie." IRL, it's about the sex, pure and simple. Opportunity and willingness to "go there" meets the need for release, regardless of our relationship with the person.

meh... It's little understood, but genetic attraction could be a component in why family members find each other attractive. There have been documented cases where estranged siblings meet and fall in love as adults, without realising their relationship until DNA proves it later. ( sorry it's a Daily Mail link )

I was surprised to discover that the USA and Canada allow first cousins to marry: something that is illegal in most European countries. Maybe that was an understandable decision in sparsely populated frontier countries? All the same, I find it a strange contradiction, given how religiously conservative America is.

 

[Hypoxia]

I was surprised to discover that the USA and Canada allow first cousins to marry: something that is illegal in most European countries.

Einstein, Darwin, Poe, Giuliani -- all cousin marriages. Cousin and avuncular (uncle-niece or more rarely aunt-nephew) marriages were common in Europe and America and are still common in much of the world. First cousins only share 1/8 DNA; birth defects in cousin or closer (1/4 DNA) avuncular relations are swamped by environmental factors -- illness, nutrition, pollutants, etc. I detail some of this in my What Is Incest? essay linked in my .sig.

My partner's parents were cousins. Their grandfather predicted malformed retards. He was quite wrong.