A book I’d read before getting on the train, The Adoption Triangle, had prepared me for those sorts of feelings. Of the many stories of adoption reunions, there were a few of brothers and sisters, and mothers and sons, who fell headlong in love, intoxicated by “deep, unrestrained love” and “intense, incestual feelings.” This didn’t surprise or disgust me when I read about it, or even when I experienced it myself. After all, it’s easy to confuse love with sex and sex with love.
I’d devoured stories of brother-sister incest all of my life: Wuthering Heights, Ada, The God of Small Things, Game of Thrones. It wasn’t me who’d turned those stories into bestsellers and critically-acclaimed classics. The attraction I felt wasn’t a sign of deviance, but I didn’t plan to act on it.
My uncle’s redheaded wife was the person in our family who most often told it like it was. When Johnny was released, and it looked like he would make it to the fifth beach-house reunion, she took me aside to tell me to watch him around children, and to explain why her husband – my uncle – didn’t want to be around my brother. When their daughter was three years old, they’d left her in then fourteen-year-old Johnny’s care and had come home to him with his pants down, his penis in the little girl’s mouth, and him saying “Just suck on it like it’s a bottle.”
Dons't most of those incest stories portray incest as a sign that things have gone horribly wrong or that the person who is interested in them is a massive deviant?
Well there is some evidence that suggests people are often attracted to facial features that resemble those of their parents.
Which is interesting because it would directly contradict the potential existence of the Westmarck Effect, which would be another potential explanation though completely opposite to that of your and my articles and was itself essentially proposed as a refutation of Freud's Oedipus Complex. Which if the research in our articles is accurate would surprisingly suggest Freud was on to something. An achievement he's not usually accorded anymore
Which is interesting because it would directly contradict the potential existence of the Westmarck Effect
The Westermarck effect has to do with people growing up in close proximity to each other, not with the phenotypes of your parents though, so it wouldn't be contradicting.
Good point, I just meant the Westmarck Effect could explain her being attracted to the brother she'd never met despite him being related as opposed to because of it
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-12-02
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1 donaldfranklinhornii 2017-12-02
No.
1 menslib_is_alpha_af 2017-12-02
You sure?
1 donaldfranklinhornii 2017-12-02
Back in the 1990s, I came across some 'literature' about this and I was disgusted then as I am now.
1 menslib_is_alpha_af 2017-12-02
Banging my actual sister is gross, but a fictional sister seems pretty hot as a fantasy.
1 donaldfranklinhornii 2017-12-02
To each their own...
1 a_normal_human 2017-12-02
I mean, if we're going Fictional, why stop at the sister? Why not just go full Furry?
1 menslib_is_alpha_af 2017-12-02
Because that would be gross.
1 ricardogce 2017-12-02
Furry is always wrong.
1 TherapyFortheRapy 2017-12-02
Well, a sister still has human tits and a human cunt, for one.
That particularly slope doesn't seem too slipper, tbh. And I don't even have a sister.
1 stevemisor 2017-12-02
Dons't most of those incest stories portray incest as a sign that things have gone horribly wrong or that the person who is interested in them is a massive deviant?
1 uniqueguy263 2017-12-02
Jon Snow and Daenerys is portrayed positively.
1 Gothmog26 2017-12-02
Yeah, but Martin is creepy.
1 uniqueguy263 2017-12-02
It is known
1 Denny_Craine 2017-12-02
Where's the drama? That was actually pretty well writtn
1 menslib_is_alpha_af 2017-12-02
It was a dramatic story. Sure it has no business being posted in here but it was kind of neat, no?
1 Denny_Craine 2017-12-02
I enjoyed it
1 menslib_is_alpha_af 2017-12-02
Good ☺️
1 shallowm 2017-12-02
Apparently this is a real thing?
1 Denny_Craine 2017-12-02
Well there is some evidence that suggests people are often attracted to facial features that resemble those of their parents.
Which is interesting because it would directly contradict the potential existence of the Westmarck Effect, which would be another potential explanation though completely opposite to that of your and my articles and was itself essentially proposed as a refutation of Freud's Oedipus Complex. Which if the research in our articles is accurate would surprisingly suggest Freud was on to something. An achievement he's not usually accorded anymore
1 shallowm 2017-12-02
The Westermarck effect has to do with people growing up in close proximity to each other, not with the phenotypes of your parents though, so it wouldn't be contradicting.
1 Denny_Craine 2017-12-02
Good point, I just meant the Westmarck Effect could explain her being attracted to the brother she'd never met despite him being related as opposed to because of it