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incest

Sexual intercourse between persons thought to be too closely related to marry; the exact relationships that fall under the incest taboo vary widely from society to society. A biological explanation for the incest taboo is based on the necessity to avoid inbreeding.

Within groups in which ritual homosexuality is practised, for example in New Guinea, an incest taboo applies also to these relations, suggesting that the taboo is as much social as biological in origin.
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My focus on the novel's sibling incest narrative in this regard promises to extend the critical discussion of Hopkins's engagements with scientific rhetoric in readings by Cynthia Schrager, Thomas Otten, and Gillman, where Hopkins's revision of racialist discourse and particularly the figure of "blood" through occult science has developed into one of the most provocative and influential lines of argument regarding Of One Blood.
Pauline Hopkins and the End of Incest by Salvant, Shawn / African American Review
RESEARCHERS have estimated sibling incest to be much more common than parent-child incest.
DR MIRIAM: SISTER'S A BULLY by The Mirror (London, England)
Most family system investigators of child abuse trauma continue to focus on father-daughter incest despite recognition that sibling incest and assault occur more frequently (Wiehe 1991), and that such a dynamic is part of a family interdependent network.
Treating sibling incest using a family systems approach by Haskins, Cora / Journal of Mental Health Counseling
 
 
 
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