Question:
Does incest count as love between 2 half siblings?
anonymous
56 years ago
Does incest count as love between 2 half siblings?
Nine answers:
Anonymous
14 years ago
Yes because they have the same mum.
anonymous
14 years ago
uuuh. yeah
anonymous
14 years ago
So what if it is incest? If you are both adults and/or the same age, and there is no pressure, and no blackmail, and you love each other in that way, then go for it!



Incest is only bad when there is emotional power games, like with parents and children,
anonymous
14 years ago
Yes, that would be considered incest. Half-siblings can marry in Sweden, however.



CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.) An aversion became common in humans to aid in population growth so that one disease wouldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.



Consensual incest is very common. You know others who have been involved, whether you know it or not. Many half-siblings have experimented or even had lifelong relationships.



There is no rational moral reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual incest. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each other's love lives, now are we?



Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.



Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?



Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.



Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either.



Some people who say it is wrong seem to have no problem with complete strangers having sex. So get over it, all of you who want your personal disgust to dictate the lives of others.
Micki 48
14 years ago
Yes, a relationship between half-brother and half-sister is considered to be incest, even it was just kissing. Most places have laws on the books making incest illegal, but people aren't normally prosecuted for it, until the incest takes place between an adult and a minor.
Chiquita Bonita
14 years ago
yes, you have the same blood, and if you had kids they would most likely be born with some type of medical problem. please don't do this, i know these 2 kids born to two cousins and the kids both have diseases that are killing them, consider seeing other people...
Erin
14 years ago
this would be incest.

in fact, morally, i think that even if you are step sister/brother it would still be incest. for instance, i grew up with 2 step brothers since i was 6 years old, now 20 years later, i consider them just as close as my blood relatives. i could never think of loving my step or half siblings as anything more than a brother or sister.
anonymous
14 years ago
XD



It can.
gamelover
14 years ago
Yes, because you share the same mom, and therefore you have the same bloodline.


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