[n3rve]:

I for one, don't have an issue with "incest". The Bible censures "incest", but tells us we all came from 'Adam and Eve'.
Note: I just want to hear what people think, I don't believe in the bible.

~Sissy~:

sorry but you cant leave religion out of it. its basically the number one reason why almost people consider incest a sin

its legally wrong for a family to lawfully/legally marry each other in most lawful society. its a punishable crime in most society

its biologically incompatible/wrong

49cents:

what exactly is wrong with incest? crazy question in it? funny enough it was borne out of a Yoruba TV show(mini jojo) i saw this morning, where a story of a woman whose long lost son from a secondary school pregnancy had a child with her daughter, conceived in a later marriage; they met in the US and already had a child together before it was discovered and even when the couple where told they were siblings they said they would never part ways,

In the same show another true life story is told of twins from Shagamu a town in Ogun state Nigeriia, who were having intimacy and eventually had a child, they refused to part ways, they later would elope to Kaduna and have five more kids,

I am not involved incest nor a considering it; i am only encouraged to post this because of the reaction i read on a NL thread about a man who was having intimacy with her daughter; there was a lot of people with weighty stones ready to cast on the man, but none of them spelt out exactly why it was wrong,

Can you articulate why exactly incest maybe a aberration, if possible without reference to religious belief? i trust your judgment since most you are likely not in an incestuous relationship; unlike when the issue is pre-marital sex.

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Ujujoan:


Even in the bible, people married from their families! 

I know it's legally wrong, I just dont know why it should be!

As for biology, what if they decide not to have kids     

~Sissy~:


that was BEFORE there was a law against it. these laws are in the bible like Leviticus chapter. i think it was one of the laws given to moses, so before that its wasnt really much of it a big deal but after the law was given to him, it was forbidden henceforth.

if you desire, i could give you the passages in the Lev. were incest were vividly forbidden

for the obvious reasons, genetics and morality sake

thats hardly the case in many incestuous relationships esp in father-daughter cases


and then one has to wonder what kind of sick attraction/love a father would have for his daughter(he help mold with his spermatozoa,bath,change her etc) to copulate with her while there are +billion women out there he could possibly mess around with. dont just understand that kind of nauseating thinking/thought

Ujujoan:

Father and daughter is not the only incestious r/ships. What about brother and sister, counsins/cousins.

Sexual abuse couls also be carried out by non-family members so technically, incest is not the cause of the abuse!

So lets assume that relatives actually decides not to have children, will it make it right for them to be together?

I am not involved incest nor a considering it; i am only encouraged to post this because of the reaction i read on a NL thread about a man who was having intimacy with her daughter; there was a lot of people with weighty stones ready to cast on the man, but none of them spelt out exactly why it was wrong,

49cents:

We can no longer afford to merely posit things as right or wrong simply by what we feel or what our social/cultural/religious cos in that way we loose the common ground to dialogue with those who may nor share our backgrounds.