-PhantomRain_ InariReyne-
Okay I'm going to state My View (<--- caps. very important) on the matter and I would like to hear your thoughts. oh! and when I say sibling incest I am referring to consensual adults.
I believe that sibling incest without procreation is perfectly fine. BUT! I believe that in most cases one of the siblings will have been subtly manipulated by the other (whether intentional or not) to view their brother/sister that way, and therefore emotionally find most if not all cases of sibling incest to be something that should be frowned on.
Furthmore While i believe sibling incest without procreation is fine I do not believe our society could handle the fact. I believe there is a good reason for it being taboo: the procreation (again) factor.
Yet another thread on incest. Why the sudden interest? Anyway, I am going to repeat this YET AGAIN (as a note, I don't really support incest):
Christianity permeates a lot of social norms in this country. There are four (and rather powerful) social norms that dictate the reason why incest is illegal and are the ONLY reasons why incest is illegal:
1. Sex is acceptable ONLY in marriage.
2. Marriage is the core of the family.
3. Families formed in marriage are morally privileged, so they should be legally privileged as well (meaning laws should be made to protect families, since they followed what is "morally right"
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4. Sex within the family, other than between the couple that created the family (or is head of the family), is prohibited.
These are the ONLY reasons why incest is illegal. Everything else, like birth defects, are basically excuses to keep the laws as they are, not the reason why the laws are there. Case in point: there are no laws that prevent people who have known birth defects from having sex and producing kids. In fact, that would be eugenics, which is controversial on its own.
The thing about incest is that most cases of incest are sibling incest (depending on what studies you use) and its usually older brother/younger sister and its usually in some form of abuse (incest as a whole usually occurs as some sort of abuse). Consensual incest (between siblings or other relatives) usually only occurs in post-adoption incest, meaning that the two partners were separated at some point (thus not knowing what the other person looked like) and formed a relationship later.
While the vast majority of incestuous relationships occur as some form of abuse, not all of them are. Manipulation is a factor for most, but not all. In fact, most people make the (unfortunately sometimes correct) assumption that manipulation is involved because of the thoughts of dependency and consent, that one who depends on an older family member (parent, sibling, etc) can not possibly consent to anything (like sex) because they are dependents.
Whether society can handle this is something that hasn't really been tested. Incest doesn't carry a criminal status in only 3 states.