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insest confusion
okay i do NOT believe in insest in the least. but i have a question. okay is it insest to like a distant distant relative? my friend said it wasnt because she likes her distant distant relative. but i thought that whether it was distant or not it was still insest to like your relative. so my question is, is it insest to like you "distant distant" relative? please help i am super confused.
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Incest is engaging in sexual acts. Lets just say you have a crush on your cousin, that's not incest. If you sleep with him, that's incest.
Secondly, it's considered incest even if it's a distant relative. But once you reach 4th, 5th cousins, i doubt it matters.
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You are correct. It is still incest if it is even a distant distant relative. Any blood relation is incest.
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Well, first of all, it's "incest". Sorry, just had to get that out of the way. Secondly, incest has a pretty broad definition. It can mean two members of the same family who have engaged in any sort of sexual behavior, or it can mean the rape of one family member by another. If a person raped their stepchild, for example, that would be incest.
But in this case, it doesn't count as incest. In most places, you would actually be allowed to marry. In many states, you can actually marry your first cousin (that is to say, your aunt's son, for example). This practice was pretty common and accepted up until a couple of decades ago, and still is in many places. States that do not allow first-cousin marriages probably allow third or even second-cousin marriages.
[Link](Mouse over link to see full location) has a lot of information about this topic.
I don't think anybody reasonable would have a problem with it if you had a relationship with this person. And if they do, it doesn't matter, because it's your business. :)
-Lia
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If you are blood related, then yes it is incest. So even like a fourth, or fifth cousin would be considered incest.
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