Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo
Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo Is inbreeding harmful? Why is incest widely prohibited? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives? Why does…
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Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo
Is inbreeding harmful? Why is incest widely prohibited? Are human beings and other primates naturally inclined to mate with their closest relatives?
Why does incest occur despite the prohibition? Why does the scope of the prohibition vary from society to society? What are the consequences?
After one hundred years of intense argument, a broad consensus has emerged on the first two questions, but the debate over the others continues. That there is a biological basis for the avoidance of inbreeding seems incontrovertible, but just how injurious inbreeding really is for successive generations remains an open question. Nor has there been any conclusion to the debate over Freud's view that the incest taboo is necessary because humans are sexually attracted to their closest relatives - a claim countered by Westermarck's argument for the sexually inhibiting effects of early childhood association.
This book brings together contributions from the fields of genetics, behavioral biology, primatology, biological and social anthropology, philosophy, and psychiatry who reexamine these questions.
The Incest Diary
Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo
Incest
Gothic Incest
Analysis of the Incest Trauma
On Incest
Accidental Incest DVD
House of Incest
Theatre of Incest
Taboo BD
Incest De SadePaperback