Is incest ever understandable?

[Wisemon]

tis said when people are more distant geneticly the more they'll evolve. Like I saw in a program, it causes more atraction.

I don't know what to think about incest, though I accept it when the age difference isn't that big or it isn't father/son father/daughter mother/son mother/daughter more like bro/sis.. bro/bro .. sis/sis
cousins etc.

male/male and female/female seems less troublesome than straight relationships.

Can people of the same family marry? if they could it would explain the two equal surnames of their children o.o; (ofcourse it does happen out of coincidence I'm not pointing it out).

The more immediate problem is that it keeps certain genetic diseases in the gene pool. That's why the last tsar's son, Alexei, had hemophelia.

[Gunter VanCrimson]

Zeus did it a lot, but Zeus is a myth.

[Wisemon]

I was just thinking today that if it hadn't been for my younger sister and her intelligence, I would probably be able to objectify women a lot easier, and I probably wouldn't be a virgin. That's not incest; it's influence.

[BlackPhoenix]

siblings partners is ok i think in some cases, but only if its done fro the love and caring for another

[The Reclaimer]

Haha, my psycho step-aunt thought I was gonna sleep with her daughter. I invited like 4 or 5 cousins to spend the night, and my Aunt wouldn't let my cousin, who messaged me when she got home saying her Mom told her: "He's only your step cousin, that makes him like any other boy, which means he'll try to sleep with you" haha.

First off everyone knows this is the "Crazy Aunt" and secondly, the entire family joined me in mocking her profusely in the following years. It was particularly funny when I was at her (my cousins) graduation party, and the Crazy Aunt was right by us, my cousin grabbed my arm and said "Come on let's go upstairs quick!" Haha, Crazy Aunt looked like she would pass out. And we got upstairs and laughed our asses off, and then proceeded back downstairs to tell the other cousins who laughed there asses off.

Sometimes laughing at the expense of others is fun. :D

[Shirodramon]

I'd like to tell a true, short story about me in an incestuous relationship... though not a 'real' one.

I was in an 'imaginary' incestuous relationship with a friend of mine. He was a Flamedramon as well, and you know how much I love Flamies. I wanted to call him my "nii-san" cuz I like to act dependant, and I wanted an older dramon brother. So we've been like brothers for a while, he used to say to me that he actually cared for me like a brother, too (he called me ototo-san), sometimes getting emails from him if I'm gone for a long while. It got me closer to him. But at the same time, he loved me just as much. Then... *blushes* we eventually became... together.

Again, it was imaginary, we weren't related by blood IRL or anything, it was just something that got us to be closer. So it's probably different in a way that the stories mentioned involved relationships between those of the same actual family/bloodline. But I was thinking some incestuous relationships would go through this in some way.

Honestly, I'm not into RL incest myself, but I feel it's understandable, you don't know how much I like to imagine Flamies in passionate incestuous love. I mostly like to see incestuous relationships to be more about truly loving than infatuation/sexual attractions.

[Shadowknight]

I'd like to tell a true, short story about me in an incestuous relationship... though not a 'real' one.

That has to be the single most condradictory sentence I've ever heard.

[Shirodramon]

I'd like to tell a true, short story about me in an incestuous relationship... though not a 'real' one.

That has to be the single most condradictory sentence I've ever heard.

The story was true, I meant that the incest relationship wasn't because we weren't related by blood.

*sigh* I hope that didn't bother you too much...

[Nate Hunter]

In the case of a mature consenting adult relationship, there is not a problem with such a realtionship in my mind, just as in my mind I see no problem in a consenting adult relationship between two people of the same gender. I do not believe that it is "right" or "wrong" from a genetic standpoint, but most people who are into such relationships know that there is a greater risk of serious birth defects by keeping such a narrow selection of genetic material (and these risks are not exclusive to humans).

The problems are... first, that most incest is portrayed in an abusive manner, and we take that as the typical context of incest. The dominant figure, typically a brother or father, is forcing the female into the relationship whether or not she agrees. This is not true in most committed "incestuous" relationships. Victims of abuse are less likely to get into such a relationship by choice, and many are even harmed in all of their relaionships because of it. But many of the serious incestuous relationships are just the same as an older person and younger person discovering themselves to be in love. In some cases their feelings are deeper because of the familial connection, but they are not attracted to each other because they are family.

Secondly, the American "moral center" is based on Judeo-Christian groundwork -- in fact most western European nations are, as well -- which does prohibit incest. Though the reasoning that can be applied to these prohibitions is sound (largely the same as mentioned above), those only concern sexual relations, not emotional. An a serious incestuous relationship is at least as much emotional as it is sexual.

I am not a supporter of incest as a whole. However I have looked into the community that is not only into it, but which is involved in such relationships, and this is what I have learned. I will not judge them their choice -- after all, I like furry porn -- and hope they will extend that same courtesy to me in any of my tastes they may not agree with. I can accept them as they are, even though it is not who I am.

So... in summary: In a serious, adult relationship, incest is permissible, even if not "right." When it is in an abusive relationship, whether it is siblings, parent/child, or otherwise (let us not forget aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents), if it is abusive, it is wrong. I hold this stance on ANY type of relationship, too, not just incest. Abusive is wrong.

[MISTER BIG T]

It's legal to marry your cousin in here. So I don't see what'd be so bad about having sex with one. I'm not too keen for any other incest though.