Why is Incest illegal in the UK?

I couldnt care less whether they were raised apart or not. Once they found out they were siblings they should have stopped. Is this the future of our country? People having sex with their siblings?

Philosophically you could argue that the state has no business interfering between consenting adults...

however practically incest is strongly associated with
family members sexually abusing their younger siblings and or offspring
forced marriages
genetic deformity in any resulting offspring

all very detrimental to society.

plus the yuck factor.

so I'm happy for it to stay illegal - just like I'm happy for driving with more than the proscribed level of alcohol in your blood to remain illegal, even for people who are such amazing drivers that even drunk they're still better than average.

Disgusting doesn't equal wrong. Maybe you are too narrow-minded to realise that?

What question? Why does it make a difference if they are blood relatives?

Disgusting doesn't equal wrong. Maybe you are too narrow-minded to realise that?

What question? Why does it make a difference if they are blood relatives?

Yes, because as a bi-sexual with a long term boyfriend, I'm totally homophobic and against pre-marital sex.

Don't be a berk.

If incest is made legal then it would be difficult to regulate because obviously it is not acceptable to allow such couples to have children. That would be a heinous thing and I don't think I should need to explain why. So that's one very good reason to outlaw it.

Another reason is that if incest is made legal lots of young children will be growing up seeing it as perfectly acceptable and inevitably lots of sexual relations will start arising within families. You could say now 'but the idea of ****ing my mother is disgusting!'. Why? Although there is some nature involved, society's labeling of it as wrong has partly made you feel that way. Start encouraging it and lots of confused children will become sexually attached to their siblings/parents, whatever. That would be a bloody terrible thing too. We need family, and a strong family bond is impossible when sex is involved.

There are plenty more reasons out there but those are two good ones, even by themselves.

Just out of interest lol I asked my boyfriend this and he said he doesn't think he'd be able to ignore it lol... what about if someone was adopted as a baby.. then met their partner, had children and a life together, then years later they find out they are birth siblings or any other birth relative, what would you think to that?

I agree incest is wrong by the way lol just wondering what you'd think to that. A lot of adopted people will never see their birth family as actual family, so what do you think about that? My boyfriend said cousins or something maybe but birth brother and sister it would be hard to ignore lol

LOL Weird random question.. just wondering xD

Ahhhhh yeah, and wouldn't two ADOPTED siblings (with different birth parents) be seen as just as bad as incest thinking about it, even though they are not blood related..... it's more of a moral type thing I guess.

Are you seriously suggesting that incest should be legal?
how would you feel if your brother and sister told you they had been having sex?

Sorry but I have to facepalm whenever uses this argument which uses no logic

"What if your [insert family member] did this" is not a rational argument.

Incest seems boring and like the easy route (I get along with my brother/sister, why not marry them?). Finding someone who is not a relative but who you can still have a similar level of emotional connection with appears to be more fun.

Read Sigmund Freud. Sex is prevalent in some way within families whether you like it or not.

And surely sexual bonds within a family would make it stronger, not weaker? Going off testimony of people in incestuous relationships this seems to be the case.