"The cultural taboo against incest, however, is not an attempt to deny a group of people any and all access to love and intimacy, but an attempt to direct sexual feelings toward healthier, more appropriate targets."

"Healthier, more appropriate targets." The same could be said of gay sex. People don't always help who they fall for. You don't have a logical explanation for why you're all anti-incest. My suspicion: pro-incest is simply more taboo (for now) than pro-homosexuality. You'd lose a lot of followers if you supported it. Or you're just a hypocrite. It is amusing how your arguments here sound so much like right wing Christians' arguments against gay marriage. You even threw in plenty of bigoted slurs.

I have to agree with JayHammers here.

The best point Savage made was the following:

"How can children--even adult children--freely consent to sex with their parents? Likewise, older or more domineering siblings can hold enormous power over their brothers and sisters. How does one divine consent when one sibling is having sex with another, or a son is having sex with his mother, or a father is having sex with his daughter? In those situations it's simply impossible to define where "family life" ends and "consent" begins."

Of course, this argument could be made for plenty of non-incestuous relationships. For example, between a boss and subordinate. While we generally frown on those kinds of relationships, we do not consider them horrendously unethical. Fucking your subordinate will not land you in jail for 10 years with a felony charge.

I'm all for gay rights but I have to agree that the same argument about it being an unhealthy, inappropriate target could be made about the gays too.

Sorry, but the golden standard does have to be consent without immediately identifiable coercion or breaking of trust. We could say that, in a sense, we trust a boss to not make inappropriate advances. However, were a boss to do such a thing and the object of his/her affections reciprocate, we would not say that this constituted an unforgivable violation of trust nor would we say it was coercion.

Also, to be quite clear, GSA is very different from incest as incest is traditionally understood. I speak from experience here - blood relatives one has grown up with are not my cup of tea. The one I was separated from for so long though, is quite another story.

Incest? good? Or bad? Hmm. Does it make 3 legged babies? Not from where I stand. I have 5 boys and 4 girls from my sister. I counted the legs and only came up with 18 legs, same with arms and the right amount of heads.

All have better than average intelligence and some of them have paired off and have had children of their own without any sign of genetic problems.

OK so incest isn't for everyone but I do think it should be an individual's right to choose his or her sex partner with out society standing in the way.

Oh-ween-nah

Actually... many animals practice sex purely for pleasure. Look at dolphins for instance. They're gay unless they're trying to procreate, and then they find temporary opposite sex partners for that purpose before returning to their same sex partner.

And while incestuous relationships doesn't always create deformed children, the chances of it happening are higher, as are the chances of them developing genetic disorders that may be recessive genes. Hasn't anyone heard of genetic diversity?

In a consensual incest relationship, nobody's getting hurt. So why is it wrong?

The incest guy sounds like the hilbilly on The Simpsons who is married to his sister. Go in-breed some more, and stop bothering us!