As predicted, the push to normalize homosexuality and legalize same-sex marriage has opened the flood gates for the normalization of all aberrant sexual practices.
An Australian judge just recently declared that our modern society has moved past condemning incest between consenting adults. During the trial of a brother who pled guilty of raping his younger sister when he was 18 and she was 10 years old but not guilty to continuing the relationship when she turned 18, the judge said that “a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was not available, not having a sex partner. . .we’ve come long way from the 1950s when the position of the English Common Law was that sex outside marriage was not lawful. . .”
Laws banning incest in Germany could also bite the dust after a government ethics committee said the laws were an “unacceptable intrusion” into the rights to sexual self-determination. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo. The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”
Laws vary by state, but generally, a person commits incest if he marries or engages in sexual intercourse with a person he knows to be, either legitimately or illegitimately his ancestor or descendant by blood or adoption; his brother or sister of the whole or half-blood or by adoption; his stepchild or stepparent, while the marriage creating the relationship exists; or his aunt, uncle, nephew or niece of the whole or half-blood.
In some states incest also includes copulation or cohabitation between first cousins, but the majority of jurisdictions permit marriage between such cousins. Incest is a crime in all states, even if consensual by both parties. However, it is often related to sexual abuse since usually the younger person is a victim of the predatory sexual activities of an older relative. Statutes generally do not require the perpetrator to be a certain number of years older than the victim.
Sexual contact between an adult and a child is never acceptable for any reason. Even if the incest occurs when the child is legally an adult, it is emotionally harmful. Incest between those who are similar in age may be less damaging, but still harmful. Incest between a brother and sister, for example, often leaves children or teens feeling guilty once they realize it is not normal in society. In addition, the dual roles are confusing. A girl may feel that she can break up with a boyfriend, but how can she break up with a brother?
Statistically, one in 3 to 4 girls and one in 5 to 7 boys are sexually abused before they turn 18 by a family member. 95% of teen prostitutes and at least one-third of female prisoners were abused as kids. Sexually abused youth are twice as likely to be arrested for a violent offense as adults, are at twice the risk for lifelong mental health issues and are twice as likely to attempt or commit suicide.
Abused children don’t go quietly into the night and turning 18 isn’t a reset button. Incest is the single biggest commonality between drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness, teenage and adult prostitution, criminal activity, and eating disorders.
Have we become so perverted that we are willing to accept that laws against incest are an unacceptable intrusion of sexual determination? Can the same be said for bestiality and pedophilia? Have we truly become the No Rules No Boundaries generation?
