Janice, no doubt about it, I agree, but the point I was trying to get at is why is it thought of differently? After all it's two consenting adults doing what comes naturally to them?
Chiefly, I think, because inbreeding--a natural consequence of incest--will increase the chances of hereditary diseases and birth defects being transmitted. It seems that most societies have recognized this, and have therefore frowned on incest.
That said, the ancient Egyptians, for example, had no problem with it, and in fact pretty much required their pharoahs to marry in the immediate family. And I suspect that today brief sexual experimentation, perhaps not leading to actual intercourse, may be more common than one thinks. (I don't have siblings, so never got to play "doctor".) Parent-child fooling around, though, is clearly molestation and abuse.
And here's a little different question. Do you think homosexuals consider incest as distasteful as heterosexuals consider homosexuality?
Who says all heteros consider homosexuality "distasteful". "Different", maybe, personally uninteresting, but why "distasteful"? As to the point of your question, yes, homosexuals consider incest to be as objectionable as heterosexuals consider it to be.
Don't you KNOW any gays?
Janice
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