Personal Opinion?

[Zephouz]

Hey, Literotica Authors. I was just drinking like my typical weekend, and maybe I've had a few too many, but. What's your personal opinion on incest? Authors will sit there and write the hell out of it, but what is your opinion of people having sex with their family members? If you knew someone in your life, who is having, or has had sex with a member of their family, would you be revolted, or just shrug it off? Me personally, I have no problem with it. Of course, there is the whole moral code of "That's wrong, don't do that" but, hey you grow up with these people, and love them unconditionally, what's wrong with having sex with them?

 

[TortureMeSoftly]

Game of Thrones explains all you need to know about the adverse affects of incest. I am personally very against it and would be revolted by anyone I know participating in that sort of act. I am so off-put by the idea that I don't read fiction with that element in detail. Incest is also against the law in my country ( and I am assuming most of the rest of the worlds ) and I feel that it is outlawed for a good reason. Unconditional love should not necessarily be considered equal to sexual encounters. Growing up with someone and loving them unconditionally is great, but if you share the same parentage respect the law and don't express that physically.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It would depend on the nature of the incest. If a father has been sneaking into his eight year old daughter's bedroom and fucking her, I would consider him the most loathsome of sub-humans, and would love to see him locked away for life in some place where his fellow convicts would know how to treat somebody like him.

At the same time, if two cousins who were both 20 years old happened to be fooling around and making sure to practice safe sex, I would consider it to be their own business.

 

[Zephouz]

Yeah, nothing weird like Unknowingly having their way with someone. It's against the law, but I don't really...mind the idea, I guess? I don't know, just an opinion.

 

[smexygirl]

I'd never touch a family member, but thinking of sex with someone my sons age is unbelievably hot. Fantasies are hot.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'd never touch a family member, but thinking of sex with someone my sons age is unbelievably hot. Fantasies are hot.

Try this one. http://www.literotica.com/s/his-best-friends-mother

 

[Handley_Page]

Game of Thrones explains all you need to know about the adverse affects of incest. I am personally very against it and would be revolted by anyone I know participating in that sort of act. I am so off-put by the idea that I don't read fiction with that element in detail. Incest is also against the law in my country ( and I am assuming most of the rest of the worlds ) and I feel that it is outlawed for a good reason. Unconditional love should not necessarily be considered equal to sexual encounters. Growing up with someone and loving them unconditionally is great, but if you share the same parentage respect the law and don't express that physically.

It's against the Law for a variety of reasons, mostly to keep a good bloodline.

It would depend on the nature of the incest. If a father has been sneaking into his eight year old daughter's bedroom and fucking her, I would consider him the most loathsome of sub-humans, and would love to see him locked away for life in some place where his fellow convicts would know how to treat somebody like him.

Oh, how true.
But, whilst that is incestuous, surely it might best be described as a 'violent assault'.


Personally, I cannot get my head round the image of some latter-day teenager wanting to screw his Mother. As far as he's concerned, she's past it!
His younger aunt, however, might be a different thing all together.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hey, Literotica Authors. I was just drinking like my typical weekend, and maybe I've had a few too many, but. What's your personal opinion on incest? Authors will sit there and write the hell out of it, but what is your opinion of people having sex with their family members? If you knew someone in your life, who is having, or has had sex with a member of their family, would you be revolted, or just shrug it off? Me personally, I have no problem with it. Of course, there is the whole moral code of "That's wrong, don't do that" but, hey you grow up with these people, and love them unconditionally, what's wrong with having sex with them?

There are two separate aspects there: genetics and consent.

According to the cliche, incest invariably leads to deformed imbecile babies. There certainly are genetic reasons for why long-term inbreeding between close relatives is a bad thing. But I don't think I've ever seen hard data on how much risk is associated with a one-off case of incest. I've heard stories of RL kids who were born from incest and had severe problems, but I don't know whether that's the usual result or just confirmation biases at work. There's also a genetic argument that some level of inbreeding might be beneficial, since it helps winnow out harmful recessives before they have a chance to spread.

If the risk is small, I'd be uncomfortable forbidding incest on those grounds alone; we don't forbid people from breeding even when they are known to have very high-risk genetic conditions. And of course there are ways to avoid having kids, even if we're talking about opposite-sex relations.

(Worth noting that the social context has changed a lot: once upon a time, people mostly lived in small communities and didn't move around much, and it was difficult not to marry relatives; today, people have a lot more options, so the genetic issue might not be as important as it used to be.)

Consent is the big issue with most RL cases of incest that I'm aware of. Especially with parent-child there is a HUGE power imbalance which IMHO makes it questionable whether a kid can give meaningful consent.

But if two siblings who are over the age of consent feel like hooking up, and assuming the genetic side of things isn't a consideration... their business, not mine.

 

[lovecraft68]

If it was a parent with an underage child I'd call the cops. That's nothing short of sexual abuse/molestation.

However in the case of siblings, especially adult siblings who are close and age it gets grayer for me.

First off there had to be something seriously wrong in their upbringing to get them to find what they need with each other, its certainly not normal.

I do know siblings who are in their early 40's at this point and been sleeping together since their mid teens. They moved out of state in their early twenties and the sister legally changed her last name.

They live like a couple and no one out there knows. I went out to see them with my wife four years ago. The entire flight back my wife went on and on about how in love they were and more couples should be(she obviously does not know)

In that case I fall back to neither god nor man nor government has the right to tell you who to love.

As long as it is consensual I guess my final say is I don't care. But will add it is much more unnerving in parent/child even if the child is an adult.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I swam in the gutters for so long not much stuns me; people routinely do whatever you can imagine while condemning it to all. Our sheriff is on a porn crusade, and I'm betting he likely has a private collection guaranteed to bury him beneath his jail.

I did my genealogy 20 years ago and discovered all kinds of hanky-panky. And I plead guilty as charged to carnal knowledge of my better looking cousins.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I can't tell you how many men ask me if I'm aroused and have to stop to masturbate while writing my stories.

They're just stories to me. They're not even my stories. They're my characters stories. As soon as I start writing the story, once I develop the characters, I turn my keyboard over to them. They write the story. In that regard, I'm distanced from the story. I'm now taking dictation.

Incest is just another story. Being that they are so popular and so forbidden, I happen to enjoy writing incest stories, so long as they are more erotic than pornographic and more believable than not. It's amazing to me how many readers and writers are survivors of incest. Every day I receive heartfelt confessions who my stories helped them to heal. Further, it's never just one abuser. As if we have VICTIM written on our foreheads, those who have been sexually abused once have been sexually abused again and again.

As long as those characters in the story are consenting adults, I have no problem with writing incestuous stories.

 

[oggbashan]

Writing about Incest on Literotica increases the author's views and votes as long as the author stays within the accepted parameters of close relations.

2nd cousins, or relations by marriage, aren't considered Incest.

It is the taboo aspect of Incest that seems to excite readers. 'We shouldn't, but you're so sexy..." If you read an Incest story and think: "What if these two were strangers, not Mother/Son, Sister/Brother?" and the answer is that the story wouldn't work - then the plot depends on Taboo.

In real life? If it is between consenting adults, then there are real social consequences and a slightly increased risk of genetic problems. I wouldn't condemn, but the couple could have problems being accepted in society unless their true relationship was secret.

It is really an offence against social conventions and that can lead to the couple becoming outcasts.

Incest when one member of the relationship is a minor, or unable to give informed consent? That is abuse.

Taboo is odd and depends on the society. Interracial is a popular category on Literotica, but from my perspective in the UK it isn't taboo but becoming normal in many communities. It is still taboo among practitioners of some religions/sects - marrying outside your Church/Temple could lead to excommunication or whatever the anathema is called.

I think the Catholic Church still expects a Catholic marrying a Non-Catholic to try to persuade the spouse to convert AND the children must be brought up as Catholic, but many couples are relaxed about that requirement.

In some countries marrying against taboos can literally be a death sentence as the relatives seek to expunge the offence against their family honour/belief. Incest could be included in the category of fatal mistakes.

 

[sirhugs]

In real life, it gets too messy because:

~it is illegal
~it messes up social and family dynamics
~it is way too often the result of an abuse of power by one participant over the other
~that remote genetic risk nags at the mind.

dreaming of it, and playing with the idea on Lit, should be a harmless way to explore and release the desire.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Are you talking about Literotica approved incest between two consenting adults? Or are you talking about real-world incest? The two are nothing alike. In the real world, incest is primarily the result of an older male relative preying on adolescents and pre-teens. It is, as Boxlicker mentions, fathers preying on daughters (and sons), uncles preying on nieces, older brothers preying on younger sisters. That's real world incest. There is nothing sexy, sweet, romantic, or cute about it. Even among "consenting" adults, in most cases the relationship started when one was a minor who was legally unable to give consent, and is still suffering from the psychological damage caused by the older relative. Even the example provided by LC is consistent with this model--unless the brother and sister were twins, one was older than the other when the relationship started.

Real life incest is perpetrated by sexual predators preying on children and teens who happen to be in the same family. The familial bond creates a misplaced trust that is exploited by the predator--to the detriment of the child who loses any semblance of a safe and normal life.

So, to answer your question, I think incest is sick and I think the glorification of it at Lit. borders on pathological. Lit-approved incest is as realistic as Sci-Fi or Nonhuman. To be talking about how we, as adults, feel about it makes as much sense as asking about our opinions on werewolves and alien abduction stories.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In real life, it gets too messy because:

~it is illegal
~it messes up social and family dynamics
~it is way too often the result of an abuse of power by one participant over the other
~that remote genetic risk nags at the mind.

dreaming of it, and playing with the idea on Lit, should be a harmless way to explore and release the desire.

LIT does favor pretend over reality. Next week or next month or next year another venue will come along and kick LITs ass with a no rules policy. Then Miss LAUREL will hafta re-think her rules or retire.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Are you talking about Literotica approved incest between two consenting adults? Or are you talking about real-world incest? The two are nothing alike. In the real world, incest is primarily the result of an older male relative preying on adolescents and pre-teens. It is, as Boxlicker mentions, fathers preying on daughters (and sons), uncles preying on nieces, older brothers preying on younger sisters. That's real world incest. There is nothing sexy, sweet, romantic, or cute about it. Even among "consenting" adults, in most cases the relationship started when one was a minor who was legally unable to give consent, and is still suffering from the psychological damage caused by the older relative. Even the example provided by LC is consistent with this model--unless the brother and sister were twins, one was older than the other when the relationship started.

Real life incest is perpetrated by sexual predators preying on children and teens who happen to be in the same family. The familial bond creates a misplaced trust that is exploited by the predator--to the detriment of the child who loses any semblance of a safe and normal life.

So, to answer your question, I think incest is sick and I think the glorification of it at Lit. borders on pathological. Lit-approved incest is as realistic as Sci-Fi or Nonhuman. To be talking about how we, as adults, feel about it makes as much sense as asking about our opinions on werewolves and alien abduction stories.

I think youre clueless about human nature.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I think youre clueless about human nature.

Really? Do you have a pack of werewolves hidden away somewhere that demonstrates I'm wrong?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Really? Do you have a pack of werewolves hidden away somewhere that demonstrates I'm wrong?

I know human nature better than you.

 

[StrangeLife]

The law should not interfere in the sex-life of consenting adults - simple as that.

 

[sr71plt]

Anything involving truly consenting adults doesn't bother me. What I see in most incest stories, though, isn't just the "related" business, it's trying to feed the underage--and nonconsent--fetishes. I put that in the sick column and steer clear.

 

[lovecraft68]

Anything involving truly consenting adults doesn't bother me. What I see in most incest stories, though, isn't just the "related" business, it's trying to feed the underage--and nonconsent--fetishes. I put that in the sick column and steer clear.

Incest is not the only category that toys with under age, just the one you don't like.

As for non consent? Go on and write a non consensual incest story. It will get flamed.

The incest readers (even though you get on your horse and consider sick and of less than average intelligence) are a happy go lucky bunch and do not like their fun fantasies to be ruined by rape or abuse and non consent.

I caught a lot of flack for consensual rough stuff in some of mine, out right non consent will get the story bombed.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yet murder is okay with almost everyone.

 

[sr71plt]

The OP asked for personal opinions. Seems the last two posters want to tell us what our personal opinion is.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The OP asked for personal opinions. Seems the last two posters want to tell us what our personal opinion is.

Your mind is easy to read.

 

[sr71plt]

Cite where I have condoned murder in discussions here--since you now have explicitly included me in that assertion.

You are so full of shit and the need for attention. Not enough folks looking in your collection of "look at me" daily threads?