I feel like experimentation is one thing, but they should have bonded with other people and grown away from that.

I think the full interview makes it sound like there are even more psychological issues at play. She talks about how she's never really had a relationships except with a teen parent who's house got burned down or something and a girl that would cry and read her the bible after they had sex. She also mentions that most…

I am a psychologist, and had a patient that was in a long term sexual relationship with his sister. I was given the opportunity to evaluate the sister as well, and there was nothing wrong with either of them. He sought a psychiatric evaluation on his own; he wanted to find out for himself if there was an illness or…

So- I am adopted. I have three brothers. I have something crazy like 35 first cousins. The first time I went to a family gathering (at 8 or so) one of my hillbilly cousins and I made out, at his behest. Over the years, various cousins I never saw in my every day life would find me attractive at family weddings. It was…

Sure, yeah, I hear you. But is it any worse for the parties involved than a screwed up relationship with someone outside of their family? Isn't our fascination or revulsion driven by the taboo? I mean, shouldn't we be appalled at the dysfunction and not the fact that the dysfunction has taken the form of incest?

Yeah, cousin or possibly niece/uncle is about close as most societies ever allow. There can easily be a power imbalance with any close family member because familial love and connection is a very powerful thing and the other partner has the ability to take that away along with their romantic love at any moment in an…

I consider a relationship close if I will allow someone to eat off of my plate without wanting to shank them.

Have you ever heard of the infamous incestuous twin Dear Prudie letter? Can't speak to either man's mental stability (he wrote a follow-up here with more info about the relationship) but it's the only example of IRL incest I've ever seen that didn't have that obvious power imbalance.

Agreed. A few years ago, I met my 3rd or 4th cousin for the first time on a vacation and I was like "hmmm he's kind of cute" (nothing happened, btw). I came home and told some of my friends about it and they were like "AHHHH EWWWWW GROOSSSSSSSS OMG" and I was like look at this point we're practically genetic strangers…

Hmm...maybe you're having a hard time finding examples of healthy, well-balanced incestuous relationships because they don't exist? Or if on the rare chance they do exist, they have the good sense to keep that particular family skeleton in the goddamn closet?

So true. They certainly don't have to meet some grand standard of healthy and happy, since all relationships are fucked up in some way. But do they all have to be such glaringly poor decisions?

This is my biggest issue with it too. The things this girl says make it clear that she is not in a healthy happy relationship with this man. Granted, she might not be in a healthy relationship with ANYONE regardless of their biological relation to her but this is still clearly not a good situation.

I am so, in theory, supportive of incestuous relationships between consenting adults. Especially where there isn't this kind of obvious power imbalance. Siblings? Cool. And yet practically every time I hear people who have engaged in these relationships describe their situation, it sounds textbook in its creepiness.

My ability to compartmentalize is astounding because upon reading the biggest thing that hit me is where she states they both had orgasms her first time.

"We both hate neck-biting..."

Correct headline is prophetically correct.

Well, it is just some flesh sponges wrapped in a skin tube so any decent pair of scissors should......

NEVER EAT ANYTHING A CHILD GIVES YOU. NEVER EVER EVER.

It's the type of initiative and ingenuity you'll find in CEO's that run the largest corporations. These kids will go far.

One of my moms friends didnt know til... I think 8 months? And only because the (12 pound) baby had the hiccups.