One of the twins said previously: “My brother is my boyfriend, and I am his boyfriend. Well known Czech identical twins Elijah and Milo Peters famously starred in several porn films together – and claimed to be in love. I don’t think that is correct at all.”Ī quick search on Google shows that same-sex ‘twincest’ is, erm, popular online – check out the screengrabs above and below. “It just doesn’t make sense to me that I can consent to one but not to the other. “If I can consent to have sex with an entire football team, why can’t I consent to have sex with my brother who is over the age of 30?” she adds, her voice rising. The fact is, if they’re not of age, it’s wrong to begin with. “It shouldn’t matter whether related or not. A child can’t consent to sex, so there’s already a law for pedophilia. “People link incest to other sorts of things, such as abuse and pedophilia,” Katherine – who dated her brother Scott – told Broadly, “but we already have laws for that. Incest between an adult and a person under the age of consent is considered a form of child sexual abuse, and often results in serious and long-term psychological trauma. Incest laws also exist in order to protect children from sexually abusive parents and older relatives. It’s not just the biological issue, though. Why not incest… If love and commitment are the justification for marriage, why exempt this?” Way back in 2013, Jeremy Irons, w hen reminded about laws preventing incest, said: “It’s not incest between men”, because “incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don’t breed”.Įrick Erickson, a contributor to Fox News, and a political blogger posted on his own blog RedState, commenting on what Irons said, and asked why not legalise incest, if the US is to legalise equal marriage. In many places, sleeping with one’s sibling is punishable by prison time, though others argue that ‘consensual incest’ is a victimless crime – providing the sex/relationship takes place between consenting adults. It’s not just that it seems utterly grim to shag your relative. University of Miami psychologists Debra Lieberman and Adam Smith also pointed out in an article in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science that humans have social and psychological mechanisms to discourage incest.Īlthough some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions, they point out that even animals and plants have evolved and developed mechanisms to prevent incest. “The problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect,” Psychology Today states. The English word is derived from the Latin word incestus, which means “impure, unchaste”.įor one, incest is illegal/frowned upon/no good because of inbreeding. Children of biologically-related parents have a higher possibility of congenital birth defects.įirst degree relatives – your parents, children and siblings – are the individuals you share 50 percent of your genes with. Incest is, simply, sexual activity between family members and close relatives.