Should Incest be legal between consenting adults?

No!
Reason:
Look the Holy Bible.

 

No, incest should not be legal between anyone.

 

What are your views on gay marriage? Do you think it should be legal?

 

No. And I'm not even religous.

 

I think a union between two men or two women should not be recognized as a couple for purposes of adoption. Perhaps I can be swayed otherwise. Can you make a compelling argument as to why we should start doing so?

 

I would bet that secular-humanist, socialist, liberals outnumber religious conservatives in this thread......Err judging by the results so far anyway.

 

Isn't that already being done? (Middle East, etc.)
Enjoy!

 

So you think multiple people should all be allowed to marry each other in the USA?

 

Do you mean adult in a legal context or a medical context?

 

No, not really. Just that it has been done.
Enjoy!

 

It should be illegal at all costs. Family relationships are difficult enough without adding sex to the mix.

 

Good post. The logic with the logic against incest is that it's selectively used, as you've pointed out. There is a higher risk (though by no marks a certainty) of genetic deformities (or whatever pc term we should use), but what about the other groups of high risk? The logic holds equally true. People with sickle cell are likely to have kids with sickle cell, so should it be illegal for them to have sex?

And, of course, the obvious problem is the presumption that sex=procreation. You can't have sex with siblings because of a risk of genetic issues, nevermind gay brothers, but you can have gay sex that will never result in procreation, and it's okay because you're not related. :/

The logic is selective.

 

Honestly I could care less either way; whatever floats your boat.

 

I know a woman raped by her brother and getting pregnant. The child is about 13 years old and shows no problems adapting to society in general, health or learning capabilities.

But this poll is partially presented, because it can become "more dirty" like marriage between consenting adults grandfather and grandson, or mother and daughter...

The sole idea of marriage of consenting adults between members of the same gender is to me as dirty as incest. It is letting bestiality overcoming reasoning. I have no idea why some people calls bestiality as a progressive step in society.

 

I wonder how many of those who voted "no" did so because of risk of incestual pregnancy. It would be a good idea to do the same question but with same-sex relationships only, that should filter them out since there can be no kid from such relationship.
That would leave only morally panicked fascists who want to forcibly stick the government into other peoples bedroom because incest is icky voting "no".

 

Yuck but yes

 

I was thinking yes and no due to just that.

 

incest is actually really really exciting.

I have found it to be titillating beyond anything else.
you can't buy this sort of experience.

i think making it legal and acceptable might ruin the whole experience..

but then again i would like to see if it was just the taboo of it all and not some sort of Gestalt

 

All of this. As a 21 year old, I read incest doujin(pretty much Japanese erotic novels. Translated of course ). (Oh and Incest is but one of the categories). It's an incredible taboo(just like public sex) when done right. Like between Cousins, or if a bro and sis grew up in the same household and developed feelings for each other.

It's not too abnormal from a fatally romantic standpoint. Romeo X Juliet is praised for much the same thing. And like this poster, I'm 50/50. It'd be really neat/awesome if it could be legalized(and is it really all that different from gays, etc?). But on the other hand, if legalized would it kill the ecstasy from doing the forbidden? And of course the legal question to ask, is where's the line drawn? Is there no line?

 

It depends upon what you classify as incest.

While I don't support incest being legalized and do not condone incest in any way, I do support the legalization of relationships between first cousins. This may seem hypocritical, but I honestly can't find anything wrong except for the icky factor. The Bible never condemned kissing cousins, and science shows that there really isn't anything wrong with it. The chances of genetic deformities in children whose parents were first cousins is only 2 to 3 percent higher. It's higher than that in women who are over 40.

Still, cousins are as close as I'm comfortable with. I think that first cousin should be the cut off point.

 

i think the bond one has with his mother is special…i understand why you want to have sex with her and i would add all this caution that society puts on you from having this sex with your mother is born from people without the degree of human desire you and your mom have

it's easy to make laws about human desire when your dead to desire.

I would suggest you and your mother taking a vacation somewhere and just pretending you really like older women, go out in public, like a hotel swimming pool and kiss her openly and with affection that you two deserve.

 

If incest is wrong, the British royal family doesn't wanna be right!!

I'm pretty split on the issue. I don't like getting between what two consenting adults do with one another, but there's also the issue of children being born as a result, and what can happen with birth defects.

 

no way simply because there are some sick freaks who will not wait for adulthood, this opens the door to a serious version of "F#%^ed UP" . Secondly there are very little instances of incest that are actual based on equal consent.

 

I'm fairly liberal but I draw the line at incest. It's wrong and shouldn't be permitted.

 

this is proven to be a non start science says it does;t really matter…


the upper classes knew this all along and ignored the false risks…