Tag: incest
Incest is Best; or, Keeping it all the Family?
port1080.
Posted to SciTech on Thu May 22, 2008 at 01:41:48 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
In Slate magazine's "Human Nature" column, William Saletan argues that societal constraints against incest, polygamy, and homosexuality all have roughly the same roots, and that those reasons are becoming less and less compelling in modern society.
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Brotherly Love Is A Good Thing ... Unless It Gets Icky.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 04:11:20 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Incest is a behavior upon which society frowns. The notion of family members having sexual relations, especially incidents of father-on-daughter or mother-on-son sex is almost universally considered taboo. There are criminal penalties for stuff like that and punishment can be severe. But what about brother-on-sister sex - should that necessarily be taboo? A German court is going to address the issue in the near future. At least, it will answer a question - should the government keep punishing the brother and sister if they show no intention of ending their sexual relationship?
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Note to Woody Allen: Avoid Ohio
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 08:23:12 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's been described (with more than a dollop of black humor) as "the activity the entire family can enjoy." But, incest is, in fact, one of mankind's strongest genetic social taboos. The law varies from one place to the next when it involves cousins. But, when it comes to the closest relationships, it's a crime. It's that way in Ohio, just as it is in every other of the 50 states of the US. But, what about sex with close relations with whom you don't share bloodlines - like, say stepfather and stepdaughter? What about when they're both adults? What about when the sex is consensual? Surely, there is a limit to the law, right? Wrong, as an Ohio man recently found out from his state's Supreme Court.
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