Talk:Incest

Mother-Son

New to Wikipedia editing but concerned about the following in the 5th paragraph of the between adults and children section: "Research by Leslie Margolin indicates that mother-son incest does not trigger some innate biological response, but that the effects are more directly related to the symbolic meanings attributed to this act by the participants.[83]"

For such a sensitive subject, a casual reading of this seems to suggest that mother-son incest isn't psychologically damaging to the victims like other forms of adult-child incest or indeed doesn't have a victim. Especially given where that sentence is placed, just after the sentence about impact. The body of scientific evidence in this area seems to be against this implication. Indeed Margolin article starts by saying "The idea that mother-son incest is the most damaging form of incestuous behaviour has been commonplace in psychiatric and sociological literature for the last thirty years." and indeed the majority of recent studies since Margolin's seem to fall in line with this as well. Margolin's study does not even clinically asses survivors as other do but merely draws on "case material". It seems to be an article that goes against the grain almost for the sake of it and is at odds with the literature. It should not be the only reference.

I suggest either citing an article contradicting the Margolin article to counterbalance eg: or

Or, as I personally think is more appropriate we can remove the citation and sentence completely and just talk less controversially about rarity and under-reporting citing possibly:, letting the "impact" section stand to refer to mother-son incest as well. However, the underreporting bit would better fit at the top of the first paragraph, after the section on Father-son incest, so the 5th paragraph we could just leave as one sentence.

Happy to edit the main page myself but didn't want to just wade in on what must be a heavily monitered article.

OeColonus (talk) 01:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

References

About 1/3 of people in the world live where insect is legal and for mother-son incest to be legal the son must be over 14 or 16. The mothers sometimes discuss their experiences on internet discussions (but not in English). I’ve read many of them and most have a positive view of it. There are a lot of pluses and minuses. In countries where incest is illegal people who have had positive experiences are often afraid to discuss it on the internet. A common case is where a divorced mother has a son who asks for sex and the mother reluctantly agrees. Then the mother starts to really enjoy it: more than she did with her husband.

David S. Lawyer 20:49, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

"Biblical references" section

Couple of things there. First, Cain was exiled, so couldn't have had relations with his mother Eve, which was already forbidden anyway since she was Adam's wife. Second, Genesis clearly states that Adam and Eve had other unnamed sons and daughters, so that's not conjecture as the section makes it seem. Wikipedia editors need to get their act together. 67.4.83.66 (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Incest

Incest is only incest if it involves sexual relations. I.e. Kissing doesn’t necessarily count as incest but sexual intercourse does. Savagejulian101 (talk) 14:29, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

"Consanguinamory" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Consanguinamory and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 29#Consanguinamory until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ★Trekker (talk) 20:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

The consanguinity chart is wrong

Person X's siblings, the parents of X, and the direct offspring of X all share on average 50% DNA with X, and thus they all have the same degree of consanguinity with X. The "Table of Consanguinity" displayed to illustrate the article has erred on this point, and thus many of the numbers in the chart are wrong. Compare with the CC-chart here, which is correct: [1].

This seems like a fundamental error, and I think that the chart should not be used without this issue being fixed. ––St.nerol (talk) 17:22, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

% of world that permits incest (dispute)

Looking over Legality of incest one sees that it’s legal in many countries such as China, India, and Russia and in few cases it’s legal between teens as young as 12. What % of the world’s population lives in countries where incest (between close relatives such as siblings or parent-offspring) is legal? Someone on the internet calculated 50%. (Next 2 sentences added later) To check on this look at just India and China each with a population of 1.7 billion. That’s 3.4 billion people; not too far from half the world’s population of 8 billion. It is certainly not almost zero which I marked as disputed. David S. Lawyer 19:41, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

I agree that saying "almost universally forbidden" might be a somewhat extreme way to put it, but before marking the claim as disputed I think it'd be better to provide references backing up your stance, and "someone on the internet" most definitely doesn't count as a reliable source. I also don't think academic consensus leans towards more lenient views on incest and, besides, the whole paragraph can be seen as ambiguous, as it mentions several contexts in which incest between close relatives might be seen in completely different ways. In the meantime, I'll revert the edit as another reference saw itself unintentionally modified. --NicoSkater97 (talk) 22:28, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

New article proposal: Incest debate

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not an online debate or advocacy forum
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Should consensual incest be legal? And what are the pros and cons of various types of incest? On the English language internet the “debate” is growing with majority of “posts” favoring incest. Most of these posts are simply porn videos purporting to show incest sex. There are no words arguing for incest sex, just moving pictures showing “relatives” having incest fun with sex. There are also discussions on Quora In Russia, where incest is legal, there is a lot of incest porn along with many posts that are anti-incest including a proposal to criminalize it. In New Jersey they were not successful in recriminalizing it. What do you think? Can you contribute to it? David S. Lawyer 00:42, 3 October 2022 (UTC) Wikipedia isn't Debatepedia. tgeorgescu (talk) 01:40, 3 October 2022 (UTC)