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Incest can be found in many varieties of literature, from popular forms to serious fiction, either as an important thematic element or as an incidental element of the plot. Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. Incest also appears in the writings of several major authors of science fiction. Incest has been a recurring subject in Japanese manga such as Osamu Tezuka 's Ayako — Incest has also been a subject in Japanese anime , dating all the way back to one of the medium's earliest pornographic titles, Cream Lemon. Sibling incest is the most common manifestation.


Legality of incest in the United States
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Incest in literature - Wikipedia
Incest is found in folklore and mythology in many countries and cultures in the world. Tales involving incest, especially those between siblings, have been interpreted as representing creation myths, because at the beginning of time the only way to populate the earth would have been through incest. Such incestuous unions are often used to argue the original divinity of figures that have been diminished or euhemerized into human form. The pattern of a mother-goddess coupling with a young male deity was widespread in the entire pre-Aryan and pre-Semitic cultural zone of Orient from Southwest Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean. In this pattern, the Mother, like a goddess of fertility, was often accompanied by a young male deity who was both her son and later her husband after his father's demise: Astaroth with Tammuz , Kybele with Attis , etc. Often from sexual unions with their son-husbands, some goddesses bore numerous offsprings. In Greek mythology , Gaia earth had 12 children with her own son Uranus sky.



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Incest as an either a thematic element or an incidental element of the plot, can be found in numerous films and television programs. Sometimes, two characters do not know about their blood relationship when they enter a sexual or romantic relationship, or one of them knows while the other does not. The practice of cousin incest remains legal in many US states today as well as many countries, where cousin marriage is allowed.





The incest taboo is one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos , both in present and in past societies. In most cases, the parents did not have the option to marry to remove that status, as incestuous marriages were, and are, normally also prohibited. A common justification for prohibiting incest is avoiding inbreeding : a collection of genetic disorders suffered by the children of parents with a close genetic relationship.
