What do you think of incestuous love? If two grown adults agree to such relationship, do you think its okay for them to be together?
I found this question on the past topics of the month on the website and I just thought it was a really good question.
As we’re growing up we’re taught that many things are considered “wrong”; one of those things is incestuous love. Now I’m all for choice; I’m pretty much pro-choice on any issue that comes along. Homosexual relationships – I say let them make their own choice, if they want be together and to get married, let them; Interracial relationships – same stance as homosexual relationships, two people to love each other should be able to make their own choices, marital or otherwise.
Incest never seemed to come up with the options of choice; it’s never even been a topic that I’ve heard of that much. So while all of the previously mentioned topics seemed to turn up around every corner, where has the topic of incest been hiding?
I honestly don’t know how many of the people in the world are involved in an incestuous relationship, though due to the fact that the topic doesn’t come up that much, I’m thinking the numbers aren’t many. Though even though it isn’t a much talked about topic, I suppose the numbers could be more than we think, maybe it's even more likely that the numbers are higher, because no one wants to talk about it.
Since I’m pro-choice I really think that if two adults decide to be in an incestuous relationship, then they should be allowed to make that choice themselves, I’d say they should also be allowed to get married. You can’t control who you fall in love with, even if it is socially unaccepted. The only thing that makes incestuous relationships different from the others is the chance of inbreeding and causing damage to the child, however, the chances of harming the child aren’t always so high. I think that if a couple that just happen to be related want to have children, they should make sure that they’re not carrying a recessive gene that could hinder their children’s chances of survival. I know that the possibility of carrying the same recessive gene is still there with all other couples, but since there’s a more likely chance that two family members would be carrying the same gene, I think that they shouldn’t take the risk with their children’s lives. People who are involved in an incestuous relationship can still have perfectly healthy children though, especially if they’re the first ones to be involved with family members.
Live and let live, everyone should be allowed to fall in love.
