Normal sexual curiosity, exploration, and experimentation among siblings in childhood and adolescence can be distinguished from sexual exploitation or sexually abusive behavior, although both types of behavior may be displayed by the same sibling pair. Sexual behavior which can be termed incestuous may occur among various family members e. Distinguishing normal sexual exploratory behavior from sexually abusive behavior is difficult in itself, but the difficulty is compounded by attempting to distinguish between nonabusive and abusive incest. What is considered to be normal, what is considered incestuous, what is considered abusive or nonabusive depends in part upon the values and norms of the culture. Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Skip to main content. Advertisement Hide.

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The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos , both in present and in past societies. In most cases, the parents did not have the option to marry to remove that status, as incestuous marriages were, and are, normally also prohibited. A common justification for prohibiting incest is avoiding inbreeding : a collection of genetic disorders suffered by the children of parents with a close genetic relationship. In some societies, such as those of Ancient Egypt , brother—sister, father—daughter, mother—son, cousin—cousin, aunt—nephew, uncle—niece, and other combinations of relations within a royal family were married as a means of perpetuating the royal lineage. However, sexual relations with a first-degree relative meaning a parent or sibling are almost universally forbidden. The English word incest is derived from the Latin incestus , which has a general meaning of "impure, unchaste". It was introduced into Middle English , both in the generic Latin sense preserved throughout the Middle English period [19] and in the narrow modern sense. The derived adjective incestuous appears in the 16th century. Terms like incester [21] [22] [23] and incestual [24] [25] have been used to describe those interested or involved in sexual relations with relatives among humans, while inbreeder has been used in relation to similar behavior among non-human animals or organisms. Other words that describe sexual attraction to relatives include consanguinophilia, consanguinamory, synegenesophilia, incestuality and incestophilia.
Most American youth have siblings. Teens who thought their older sibling was not having sex scored higher in valuing abstinence and lower on perceptions of peer sex and maternal approval toward sex than teens who perceived their sibling to be having sex and teens without an older sibling. With regard to behaviors, teens who thought their older sibling was not having sex were less likely to endorse making out, touching genitals, oral sex, and vaginal sex compared to teens who thought their older sibling was having sex. Perceptions that older siblings abstain from sexual activity may be a protective factor for more conservative attitudes towards sex and decreased sexual activity among young, at-risk teens. Eighty-two percent of children in the United States have at least one sibling 1 , and children are more likely to grow up with a sibling than a father in the home. Adolescence is a developmental period associated with increased risk-taking. Almost half of the approximately nineteen million annual incident STD infections are among young people ages fifteen to twenty-four years old. A review of research on adolescent sexual and reproductive health found that higher levels of family connectedness e. A majority of the existing sibling research on sexual behaviors has indicated that older siblings can influence the sexual behavior of younger siblings.
This story is over 5 years old. God, it is some thing else. We moved on to oral sex, but it took ages for me to get her to let me enter her," says Jersey on the Consensual Incest Chat Forum. Incest has a terrible reputation, but really, is it that bad? Yes, having kids with your nearest and dearest will probably result in a baby seeping brains from its asshole, but for a surprisingly large community, screwing your relatives comes as naturally as not screwing them does for the rest of us. I am a widower and my daughter has replaced my wife as a sex partner. We have a lovely two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. One mother defends her three-year relationship with her son, saying she didn't consider him for sex until he turned