Why is incest considered morally wrong?

Consensual incest IS okay, as an adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Because if we're talking about CONSENTING ADULTS, there is no good reason to deny other people their sexuality and relationships. 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.) Our laws WILL eventually reflect that. There are a few US states currently where it isn't a prosecutable crime, and there are countries where that is the case as well.

Half-siblings can marry in Sweden. The reasons it is illegal in the first place has to do with "sex police" laws dating from church control of countries and states. We've left that behind.

Also, an aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn'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. 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 brother is their best friend. Why can’t their brother be a husband, too?

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.

Let consenting adults love each other the way they want! 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. It is fascinating to watch people say a grown woman can't really consent to sex with her father, but she can consent to sex with a man she just met in a bar who is the same age as her father.

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