{"id":526,"date":"2019-11-01T03:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking-the-silence.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/01\/the-incest-taboo-common-social-rule\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:25:04","slug":"the-incest-taboo-common-social-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/2019\/11\/01\/the-incest-taboo-common-social-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The incest taboo common social rule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What rules<\/strong> shaped humanity’s original social networks? Researchers in Japan<\/a> developed new mathematical models to understand what conditions produced traditional community structures<\/strong> and conventions around the world, including taboos<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> about incest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Experts <\/span>in anthropology consider the incest<\/strong> taboo<\/span><\/strong> to be an extremely common social rule affecting kinship structures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ancient incest<\/strong> taboo<\/span><\/strong> focused on social closeness, rather than genetic or blood relationships, meaning it was taboo<\/span><\/strong> to marry anyone born into the same cultural group.<\/p>\n

Itao and Kaneko<\/a> designed a mathematical model and computer simulation to test what external factors might cause generations of biologically related families<\/strong> to organize into communities with incest<\/strong> taboos<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and direct or generalized exchange of brides.<\/p>\n

This is the underlying cause of the traditional community-based incest<\/strong> taboo<\/span><\/strong> suggested by the study.<\/p>\n

The discovery suggests that those who ruled Ireland<\/a> thousands of years<\/strong> ago were practitioners of incest<\/strong>, one of human society\u2019s most consistent taboos<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Incest among members<\/strong> of the same \u00abnuclear family\u00bb is remarkably rare .<\/p>\n

In the modern world when incest<\/strong> occurs it usually takes place and is understood as an abuse of power by older, more authoritative, and usually male family members<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A controversial 2015 University of Zurich<\/a> study of the remains of elite ancient Egyptians suggested that incest<\/strong> was very common among the pharaohs.<\/p>\n

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Amenhotep I, one of the most famous of the kings of Egypt<\/a>, was the product<\/strong> of three generations of sibling incest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The effects of multi-generational incest<\/strong> appear to have taken a toll on the royal family: Tutankhamun<\/a> suffered from a genetic bone disease.<\/p>\n

One problem with the commonly believed \u00abroyals only\u00bb exception to incest<\/strong> is the data from Ptolemaic and Roman era Egypt<\/a> .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is likely due to an edict, published in 295 A.D. by the Emperor Diocletian, that specifically forbade incestuous relationships<\/strong> throughout the empire.<\/p>\n

In the rest of the Roman empire these kinds<\/strong> of unions<\/strong> were a social taboo<\/span><\/strong>; accusations of incest<\/strong> were levied against outsiders, including early Christians, as a sign of their moral depravity and barbarian nature.<\/p>\n

UNC-Charlotte anthropologist Jon Marks, author of Tales of the Ex-Apes, explained to the Daily Beast that a lot comes down to our definitions of incest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

COUNTY MEATH, Ireland<\/a> \u2013 Recent genetic analysis from remains interred at Newgrange, the largest of Ireland<\/a>\u2019s great passage tombs<\/strong> built over 5000 years<\/strong> ago, shows that one of the few buried there was the product<\/strong> of an incestuous union \u2013 something<\/strong> many academics believe indicates the presence of a deified ruling class<\/strong> like the pharaohs of ancient Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Geneticists, Lara Cassidy and Daniel Bradley, both of Trinity College Dublin, along with Thomas Kador, an archaeologist at University College London<\/a>, co-authored the paper published in Nature that analyzed the DNA extracted from NG10 as having enough identical genetic sequence to be a product<\/strong> of incest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Known as first-degree incest<\/strong>, these kinds<\/strong> of unions<\/strong> are almost universally taboo<\/span><\/strong> in human societies.<\/p>\n

Most often this involves the creation of a deified or otherwise sacred bloodline, one that has to be preserved by preventing or limiting marriages with outsiders even if that requires pairings which would normally be considered incestuous.<\/p>\n

Though the vast majority had degraded to a point only that partial genomes could be retrieved, enough genetic similarities were still found between these bodies to suggest a closely related ruling class<\/strong> controlled the entire island during this period, providing the kind of environment where these sacred, incestuous bloodlines can occur.<\/p>\n

However, marriages within a wider kin group don\u2019t necessarily indicate the acceptance of first-degree incest<\/strong>, and many cultures that condone marriage between cousins still hold parent-child or sibling unions<\/strong> as taboo<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Similarly, it\u2019s possible that far from being the product<\/strong> of a formal, sanctioned union, the individual<\/strong>\u2019s true parentage was concealed from the rest of their society, as often happens with cases of incest<\/strong> even now.<\/p>\n

Based on this alone the conclusion that Neolithic Ireland<\/a> had an incestuous ruling class<\/strong> with a mystical or even divine bloodline would seem tenuous \u2013 however, the structure of Newgrange itself coupled with a piece of local folklore suggests it may be the correct one after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This folk memory of incest<\/strong>, albeit connected to a different tomb, seems to suggest it was remembered as something<\/strong> not just wrong but spiritually harmful to the entire community, robbing the princess of her powers and stopping their attempt to end the plague driving them to starvation.<\/p>\n

In those intervening years<\/strong> successive waves of migration and conversion to Christianity had occurred, resulting in a culture that viewed incest<\/strong> as an unequivocal spiritual evil.<\/p>\n

It is highly likely that the details and moral implications of the story had mutated into something<\/strong> unrecognizable by the time it was recorded, and that at its core is a memory of a divine or priestly king\u2019s who engaged in incestuous unions<\/strong> and were in some way connected to the life cycle of the sun.
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Perhaps it even began as a recounting of the conception of the individual<\/strong> buried in Newgrange, with his burial in a place of honor indicating that while his society didn\u2019t condone incest<\/strong> it also didn\u2019t punish those born as a result either.<\/p>\n

All we do know for sure is that a relatively small kin group was buried in the passage tombs<\/strong> across Ireland<\/a> and that at least one individual<\/strong>, interred in the largest and presumably most high status of those tombs<\/strong>, was the product<\/strong> of first-degree incest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Young girls are easy targets of incest<\/strong> abuse in such male-centric societies.<\/p>\n

Roland C Summit, professor of Psychiatry at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Centre, California<\/a>, US, summarised many of the adaptations made by victims of incest<\/strong> in his article titled \u2018The child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome\u2019.<\/p>\n

By 1986, Diana E H Russell, a feminist writer and activist, wrote in her book The Secret Trauma some form of incestuous activity, ranging from minimal to brutal aggressive, was found in approximately one in 20 families<\/strong> that included daughters and their natural fathers, and one in seven families<\/strong> in which daughters resided with stepfathers.<\/p>\n

Discussing the psychiatric impact, psychiatrist Richard P Kluff writes in his Psychiatric Times article that few circumstances confront the psychiatrist with more complex, painful and potentially-problematic clinical dilemmas and challenges than treatment of the incest<\/strong> victim and management of the situation in which incest<\/strong> has been suspected or alleged by one member of a family, and denied, often with both pain and outrage, by the accused and other members<\/strong> of that family.<\/p>\n

Brother-sister<\/strong> incest<\/strong> seems to be on the rise, at least according to my unofficial survey of incest<\/strong> websites.<\/p>\n

In perusing websites that feature incest<\/strong>, I found two types of brother<\/strong>–sister<\/strong> incest<\/strong> clips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In many other cases they casually identify themselves as brother<\/strong> and sister<\/strong> and seem to think nothing of their incestuous behavior.<\/p>\n

A recent article noted a rise in incest<\/strong> pornography and attributed it in part to the TV show<\/strong>, \u00abGame of Thrones.\u00bb The author, Vanessa Brown<\/a>, focused on a new genre which she called \u00abFaux-cest.\u00bb \u00abFOR the uninitiated, a film with the title \u2018Family Play Date\u2019 could be identified as a harmless, wholesome household flick. But in fact, this title \u2014 along with a growing number of other films \u2014 is part of a growing pornography trend\u00bb.<\/p>\n

\u00ab This is but one of numerous incestuous storylines in this series. In season one, Cersei says, \u00bbJaime and I are more than brother<\/strong> and sister<\/strong>, we shared a womb, came into this world together, we belong together.
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\u00abIn watching clips of the real brothers and sisters who engage in incestuous behavior for profit on the cam shows, I came across similar rationalizations. When one young woman, who barely looked eighteen, was asked how it felt to have sex<\/strong> with her brother<\/strong>, she replied, \u00bbIt\u2019s cool.<\/p>\n

\u00abOn another clip, a brother<\/strong> and sister<\/strong> were asked if they were afraid their parents would find out. \u00bbThey\u2019re too busy having sex<\/strong> with each other and their friends,\u00ab they replied. It appeared that in this and other cases, there is an aspect of rebellion that is acted out through the brother<\/strong>–sister<\/strong> incest<\/strong>. If the parents can have hidden sex<\/strong> with one another, the brother<\/strong> and sister<\/strong> can act out their Oedipal jealousy by likewise having hidden sex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Most of the couples I saw involved older sisters and younger brothers, and it appeared that the older sister<\/strong> was the one that had initiated the incestuous relationship, as well as creating a cam show<\/strong>. The younger brothers, however, were all-to-willing participants in the shows. And just like most porn shows, these shows were most often geared to the female helping male to achieve an orgasm.<\/p>\n

Interesting, according to Brown, women and couples are the largest fans of brother<\/strong>–sister<\/strong> incest<\/strong>. Apparently women are attracted to incestuous relationships<\/strong> because they like porn that tells a story, rather than just porn showing people having sex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Psychologist Georgia Whelan noted that \u00bbMainstream media can \u00abnormalize a practice and reduce stigma, shame and judgment increases sexual desire in many people.\u00bb She added, \u00abFor Game of Thrones to increase incest<\/strong> fantasies in people, individuals would have to repeatedly watch the incest<\/strong> image over and over again and have positive reinforcement, because there has to be reinforcement and repetition for a fantasy to stick\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Another reason why incest<\/strong> and in particular brother<\/strong>–sister<\/strong> incest<\/strong> may be appealing is the very fact that it forbidden.<\/p>\n

The question is, once brother<\/strong>–sister<\/strong> and father-daughter and mother-son incest<\/strong> have run their course and have been normalized, what\u2019s next? Bestiality? Cannibalism? Necrophilia? And isn\u2019t this what happened in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome? In these societies things began to fall apart as rationalizations evolved to justify more and more bizarre sexual practices.<\/p>\n

The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence<\/a> system that collected 5<\/strong> news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subject of incest<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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