Should incest be outlawed in western society?
540624
I would just comment on wrathpuppets response:\n\n# the incest between brother and sister is as bad as between parent and child.\n\n In may societies brother is also a protecter. If it is ok to go for physical relationship with your adult sister , it also makes way for going with an underage one. Many times sisters depend on their brothers directly or indirectly around the world. Permitting it, is to put those girls under jeopardy. Many girls have to keep their mouth shut even today and they are unable to come out about molestation by their family members. In such cases even reast of family members avoid going public and that girl has to share the home with her molester.\n\nIt is absurd logic that if they are adult , it is ok. In west it is ok to sleep with anyone if adult for many years now. has it not started the sexual activities among below 18s as well. many of them say yes under some kind of pressure.it may be peer pressure or BF may leave me pessure. A sister will be no different. And elder brother or sister can make younger one an easy target and manipulate him/her even more into saying yes.\n\n# In Indian society generally marriage with first, second even fifth cousins is not allowed under hindu law. In South India some communities allow it. But still not is same family line. In many of north Indian cities , one will not be allowed to marry even in same village, forget about first cousins.\n\nMarriage between cousins is more common among Muslims, at least in Indian sub-continent. Even between children of same family, that is among  children of two brothers. And I am not saying it to insult anybody but practically such families have too many abused children as well as birth deformities. facial features are slightly dishevelled if nothing else.\n\nAdded:\nsomebody below said--\n\n"His needs taken care of by family" .\n????\n\nSo this is an argument in favour of incest?  so father should take daughter in case her mother is not there to take care of his need??? brother should go after her sister because he is too young to get his GF??? what abnout sister needing protection from their brothers?\n\nSee this is why incest should be outlawed. to save little girls from from people like this answerer.
369661
Incest can screw up your kids for the rest of their lives. For real. No joke.
394231
The child would be the fathers daughter, (as well as the daughter's daughter).\n\nIt's called incest. The child would be inbred, and a very disturbed little boy or girl.\n\nIncest is wrong, morally, and legally.
552406
It's forbidden in my country and I am not agree with this, because society needs to have some places like that to be healthy.\nAs a girl, I don't know what is your idea, but as a boy I think it's necesery for all of societies and can avoid a lot of guilties, of course if government can manage them and avoid them for more guilties.
1051674
Yes, I know.\n\nIt is a great crime against Humanity.\n\nThe women themselves insist upon it, else the men will not find the female *children* "marriageable." They would be "outcasts."\n\nA true indictment of the barbarity of these societies in my opinion.\n\nMutilate the girls. Rip, tear, disfigure, and and abuse their bodies.\n\nWhat could possibly be more desirable?
351995
I'm not really a religious person but this thought has crossed my mind as well.  If the bible is true it is stating we are all related.  I don't think incest would have been a thought in God's mind.  Incest is a term used by society and all objections people have to it were created by society.
901502
I don't think any of it should be banned.  I think the advantage would lie in teaching everything, so that education isn't subject to some kind of cultural censorship.
1152320
We don`t inter-marry with family in America.. Bad business, It Causes deformed, retarded, messed up babies and such..
282132
You're so stupid, this how all men should be, ever heard men from Mars!!\n\nNow your tilling me that you don't have this thing in other cultures...pleeeez.. you don't want men to have sex with your sister, but it's ok for you to have sex with theirs,.. this mentality is part of being a man, that's life, get over it.\nAnd honestly, as a man, I rather being a hypocrite then being a fag..
290824
Biologically it's wrong, since if your father were to have sex with your sister and they were to produce a child, that child could have all the heritable traits from that family times two, and in that case it weakens the species, as you can see in royal, insestuous families who eventually died out because of heritable traits that became heightened because of the lack of genetic diversity. Imagine those people procreating with others outside of their family after such an incestuous line, it could weaken an entire gene pool! \n\nPeople are born with a general sexual aversion to their parents (although Freud would argue with me) and as we grow older and spend all our shildhood days knowing and respecting our parents, siblings, and grandparents (etc.) we absolutely block inscetuous thoughts from our minds. It's become a taboo within many cultures, but I think from the legal standpoint, it is illegal perhaps mostly because of the biological reason I mentioned above.
383986
Incest is more common that you think.  People just don't talk about it.\n\nI worked with a bunch of women in NY amd most of them were abused as kids.  My best friend who is Jewish was raped by her grandfather - a Rabbi - from 5mths old to 16 years.\n\nIt happens in all strata of society.
1118633
brothers and sisters aren't allowed to get married because (even though we liberal don't like to admit it ) prejudice.  That's the way its been.  If you are gay and want gay marriage to happen, don't point that out.  The public is leaning to supporting gay marriage,  but not incest, because incest is more of a choice
563095
For the vast majority of western people, no.  But, I am sure that there are some families who still practice arranged marriage.  I don't personally know any, though.
733791
That depends on what it is you want to do.  It is pretty well agreed that child molesting is not a good thing and that you would be harshly judged for doing so.  Etc.  Murder, theft, and so on. There  has to be certain agreed upon standards of conduct in order for any society to survive.
958651
No.\nThis is a cultural issue not a legal one.
923701
Peoples have become so spoiled to having their ways like children demanding a diet of only candy, we have people losing themselves in their egos waggling their sexuality towards one another saying oh will I be happier?  I must live to be happier.  \n\nNow where are the children in all this?  They have no rights?  They must be bounced around between parents that cannot control their desire to be free to think with their egos and genitalia?  \n\nMarriage is good because it is the business of the humans of this world to build a safe enviornment for the next.  If Marriage becomes obsolete you might as well poison your sisters because they will be used for a year or two here and there and then cast aside by a society that is not geared to protect anything but a small sect of females for about ten years if they are lucky and then cast them aside.
463993
Because society used to frown upon having children out of wedlock that it used to shame a family if there was such a scandal,(That's why it is such an insult to call someone a bastard) now a days, society is so moral less, there are all sorts of bastards around, but its no Politically Correct to call them that anymore.