Incest

Incest is sexual activity or marriage between very close family members. It is a taboo, as well as a criminal offense, in virtually all societies. In many societies premarital sex is allowed or encouraged; in most such societies, the same restrictions apply to sexual unions as to marriage.

External links

• Catholic Consanguinity (in Canon Law)
• Lloyd deMause. "The Universality of Incest", The Journal of Psychohistory, Fall 1991, Vol. 19, No. 2. (http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/06a1_incest.html) - author argues that incest is universal across all human societies; equates incest with incest with children; argues that sexual relations between children and third persons with parental knowledge or consent constitutes 'indirect incest'
• Comment on "The Universality of Incest," by Andrew Vachss - comments on deMause's article by well-known children's attorney and child protection consultant
• article from The Guardian newspaper, concerning a case of allegedly consensual adult parent-child incest
• State Variations on American Marriage Prohibitions
• Intrafamilial (Incest) Abuse Resources
• The incest taboo - origins, history, and ethical aspects
• The so-called "mathematics of inbreeding"
• The evolution of incest avoidance mechanisms

Incest between cousins

• Cousin Couples -- support of such marriages
• Cousins Marrying Cousins - an article from the New York Times
• Recent research results

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