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A recent post about a national network reminds me of the many organizations that work to end sexual violence against women by demeaning sex rather than violence. The two things are lumped together in the minds of Americans. It's annoying.
Anyone who has hot-button incest issues in their lives, probably doesn't want to read the rest of this. On the other hand ...
Rape: A overt or covert violent assault that usually includes vaginal or anal penetration. I include getting someone drunk so they pass out. More or less, for my definition, it is sex without the consent of the other person.
Abuse: Physical or emotional violence heaped upon someone who feels powerless to stop it. It usually involves a differential in real or assumed power. A random stranger may commit assault and battery on me, but isn't abuse.
Sexual Abuse: Abuse with a sexual content that falls short of rape. This varies in the law but might include forced oral sex, for instance.
Incest: The taboo that says two people closely related shouldn't be sexual with each other. Some incestuous activity is rape; some is sexual abuse. Some incestuous activity is activity between closely related CONSENTING individuals in which no power dynamic is involved (twins, for instance). No force and no violence.
The damage is done TO people who have engaged in sibling sex by society's attitude about sex. The incestuous sibs are made to feel guilty and dirty. They carry a "shameful secret."
CRAP.
Rape and abuse are violent. When any sexual activity is forced, it is rape or abuse.
Incest is sex between people with a specific relationship. Marriage includes sex between people with a specific relationship. Not much difference there, is there.
Further, if you would like to bring up the red herring of recessive genetics if a pregnancy results from the incestuous activity, I would suggest leaving the urban legends behind and check out the real research. That argument for keeping sex in its place is without merit.
Stop the crusade against consensual sex!
Anyone who has hot-button incest issues in their lives, probably doesn't want to read the rest of this. On the other hand ...
Rape: A overt or covert violent assault that usually includes vaginal or anal penetration. I include getting someone drunk so they pass out. More or less, for my definition, it is sex without the consent of the other person.
Abuse: Physical or emotional violence heaped upon someone who feels powerless to stop it. It usually involves a differential in real or assumed power. A random stranger may commit assault and battery on me, but isn't abuse.
Sexual Abuse: Abuse with a sexual content that falls short of rape. This varies in the law but might include forced oral sex, for instance.
Incest: The taboo that says two people closely related shouldn't be sexual with each other. Some incestuous activity is rape; some is sexual abuse. Some incestuous activity is activity between closely related CONSENTING individuals in which no power dynamic is involved (twins, for instance). No force and no violence.
The damage is done TO people who have engaged in sibling sex by society's attitude about sex. The incestuous sibs are made to feel guilty and dirty. They carry a "shameful secret."
CRAP.
Rape and abuse are violent. When any sexual activity is forced, it is rape or abuse.
Incest is sex between people with a specific relationship. Marriage includes sex between people with a specific relationship. Not much difference there, is there.
Further, if you would like to bring up the red herring of recessive genetics if a pregnancy results from the incestuous activity, I would suggest leaving the urban legends behind and check out the real research. That argument for keeping sex in its place is without merit.
Stop the crusade against consensual sex!
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I bring to the evidence floor the fact that there is SO MANY types of incest porn out there. Clearly, as with many taboos, it's a natural thing being mad wrong, and warped by the repression.
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Just because something is being "repressed" doesn't make it right.
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Abuse is abuse is abuse. We are talking about CONSENSUAL sex. Period.
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We should make a button or an icon for that...
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::hugs::
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You're welcome.
::hugs:: back. I like hugs, being a bonobo and all...
Just out of curiosity.
Re: Just out of curiosity.
Re: Just out of curiosity.
It's been fiftenn years since I discovered the truth about "inbreeding." It was in a developmental psychology class. The next semester, we covered the effects of inbreeding on small populations in a social psychology class.
Here's the deal. Inbreeding does tend to match up recessive genes. So what. "Recessive gene" doesn't equal "bad gene." Statistically speaking, the rate of medically serious conditions resulting from human inbreeding is the same as the general population. Assuming a reasonably healthy gene pool to begin with, the risk factor is low.
Re: Just out of curiosity.
READ FOR CONTENT. Find the place where I limited anything to siblings.
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