Feminist on Incest: "the incest taboo can be destroyed only by destroying the nuclear family as the primary institution of the culture" (Andrea Dworkin, 1974) (self.politics)

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[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

"consenting adults" is doing some lifting there because of grooming and power dynamics.

very very rarely unwitting siblings who were adopted into separate households grow up without knowing each other, meet without knowing they're related and start a relationship and sometimes courts decide that isn't illegal as long as they don't reproduce. biologists can chime in on whether one generation is enough to Hapsburg.

i think it's motivated by disgust but it's also a pretty good heuristic for abuse, unlike sodomy laws.

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about. In the incredibly unlikely scenarios where two siblings of the same age who are now grown adults and independently decide, free of any insidious influence past or present, that they are in love and want to be together without ever having children, I still want them to be lowered into a hole and for that hole to be covered forever (humanely).