All about incest.
In many cultures of the world, incest is a taboo. In most cases, sexual relations between the closest relatives cause disapproval. Society considers the incest of an unacceptable. This position has developed not only for moral reasons. First of all, this is due to the high probability of congenital diseases and deviations in children born as a result.
What incest means?
An incest is customary to call sexual relations between the nearest blood relatives, that is, between father and daughter, mother and son, brother and sister. In relation to the connection of incomplete sisters and brothers, the term is used less often. In the West, incest also means sexual contact between cousins and second cousins and sisters.
There is a stereotype in modern society that incest is an extremely rare phenomenon. In our country, official statistics are not conducted, such research was carried out abroad. According to the data, from 1 to 32 % of men and from 5 to 61 % of women in Europe underwent an incest until the age of 16. In Europe, from 6 to 49 % of children under the age of 6, they survived the incestoose relations, and this was not reported to law enforcement agencies in most cases.
The Church condemns incest, it is also an undesirable effect from the medical point, as it can lead to the birth of unhealthy children. Many people condemn the sexual relations between the closest relatives. Incest is prohibited by society, religion, and in the opinion of some psychotherapists, it is considered a deviation. A full -fledged, healthy personality experiences a sexual attraction to the face of the opposite sex, which her brother, sister, aunt or uncle do not have to. And all this in order to conclude a marriage union and give birth to healthy children.
In modern society, the borders are blurred. Everyone knows that it is abnormally to establish sexual relations with relatives, but at the same time there are people who come to each other, for example, a cousin and nephew, a second cousin and niece. As a result of such a union, the blood -processing occurs, therefore, such relationships should not be between people.
Is it a disease?
Incest today is considered one of the sexual disorders. Both psychological incest and physical lead to the mental trauma of a person. At first glance, it can be interpreted as hyper -pesterness and excessive care from a close relative. And many parents do not even realize that they seduce their child. They do not notice this, and then do not understand why in sexual relations of the already grown son or daughter, negative experience is repeated. But the roots of the problem should be sought in childhood.
The physical incest includes not only sexual intercourse between the closest relatives. Also, touches are included in the intimate zones against the consent of the child or his will. However, he cannot take responsibility for such permission, even in adolescence. This is the prerogative of an adult. If the incest occurs between the sister and the brother, this is also the responsibility of the parents.
Why incest causes such a negative reaction?
Everything is easily explained from the position of genetics. What people could only guess in ancient times, today is confirmed by science.
What incest means from a genetic point of view? These are sexual relations that lead to genetic purity. In this case, hereditary signs are clearly manifested. Due to the combination of genes, the vitality of the body decreases. For a baby who was born in a marriage between blood relatives, it can cause a psychological disease, innate ugliness and even lead to death.
In modern genetics, the crossing of close relatives is called inbreeding. In second cousins, the inbruding coefficient is 0.032, nephew and aunts – 0.125. The higher it will be, the more likely the fact that similar genes will meet. A child in a pair of distant relatives may die while still in the womb, or be born inferior, physically or mentally underdeveloped.
Spouses may not even know that they are distant relatives, which means that there is a mutant recessive gene. The birth of such a baby becomes a painful blow to their well -being. In the event that there are no family ties between people, the percentage of the coincidences of recessive genes is almost zero, which means that the probability of the birth of a healthy offspring is high.
Mutant genes are like a slow -off bomb. They cause various mutations, as a result of which serious diseases occur. This is due to the presence of a “defective” gene in a genetic apparatus. It can be recessive or dominant. “Defective” dominant gene suppresses “healthy”. Moreover, a “defective” gene can be recessive for several generations, and then become dominant. The baby is born receives a hereditary disease. The emerging life is defenseless before some terrible ailment. At the same time, the father can generally be a resident of Paraguay, and the mother, for example, is a nee Spanish.
Examples of incest
There is a rare disease called Khorea Huntington. It occurs due to one “defective” gene. Having received it, a person is doomed to faithful death. However, up to 40-50 years, it can be healthy. The disease comes into its own unexpectedly. A person is lost in memory, there is a paralysis of the whole body. It is impossible to cure it, you can only facilitate its suffering by introducing painkillers. In the end, he dies.
Another example. Imagine that a woman has a recessive gene. He does not show himself. A woman marry, and her husband has no family ties with her. As a result, the “normal” gene gene suppresses the “defective” gener gene, and the baby is born absolutely healthy.
If a woman marries her uncle, nephew or brother, who has a “defective” gene, the child will receive a serious hereditary disease from both parents. Therefore, incest is condemned by medicine and religion. In strangers to each other, recessive genes coincide extremely rarely, and in relatives the probability of great.
Carcraft provokes incurable diseases and miscarriages. This is how violations of the central nervous system and deafness are inherited. However, you do not need to make a tragedy of such marriages. According to statistics, only 20 % of babies receive hereditary diseases or deviations from parents. 30 % are born healthy. But 50 % of children are carriers of the “defective” gene.
At the same time, the union of two people with different genealogical lines does not guarantee the birth of a healthy baby. After all, the recessive gene can become dominant. The doctors are powerless, since the whole process takes place at the molecular level.
Another interesting fact. It turns out that intelligence is inherited during the blood -combination. For example, among relatives and. WITH. Bach totaled more than 4 dozen musicians. The family welcomed such unions.
Scientists also analyzed the genealogical lines a. Pushkin and l. Tolstoy. Their great -grandmothers fell to each other sisters. Many genealogies of famous personalities of the past were investigated. Scientists came to the conclusion that 50-year-old fathers have the probability of the birth of a talented baby 20 times higher than that of young dads. The data obtained and incest are in no way connected. This only indicates how diverse the world of genetics is. So it gives a large field of activity for researchers.
Signs of incest
To understand what incest means, all signs of such blood relations should be determined. Perhaps the most important sign is the appearance of an erotic connotation. Moreover, the paradox is that none of the relatives fully realize what is actually happening. A person understands that experiencing sexual attraction is unacceptable, but at the same time he perceives him not as a relative, but as a sexual object.
It happens when an uncle can accidentally gain his niece, hiding behind an allegedly good attitude, but psychologists believe that here it is necessary to be alerted. This is the very first sign of incest. Another sign of incest relations is the absence of clear boundaries between the floors in the family. For example, sister and brother use one towel. At first it seems that there is nothing like that here, but this can lead to the appearance of sexual attachment.
The third sign is the lack of intimacy in situations such as the adoption of a bath or changing clothes. Daily procedures should be done behind closed doors.
The history of incest is interesting facts about famous people
Incest is rooted in deep antiquity. To understand all the negative moments of the Union of people who are blood relatives, scientists explore historical documents and make up their own picture of closely related marriages in the ancient world. An analysis is subjected to annals, myths, painting and articles. Some researchers believe that in ancient times when the foundation of the family was laid, sexual relations between relatives were considered a completely normal phenomenon. People wanted to maintain the purity of blood, so marriages were contractual.
- The pharaohs also ruled in Egypt in order to maintain power in families, it was considered normal to make a marriage between sisters and brothers. The pharaohs believed that they should not dilute their divine blood with the blood of other people. Today, scientists are trying to determine by analysis when incest took place, but still the answer has not been received. It is only known that marriages between the closest relatives were recorded in the 18th dynasty of the pharaohs. So, for example, Nefertiti married her brother Akhenaten, but their son had genetic anomalies.
The famous pharaoh Tutankhamun died very young (at 19). Genetics were able to unravel the secret of his death. The results of the study shocked many. Pharaoh suffered from genetic diseases. He had several of them: temporal epilepsy, pronounced clubfoot and malaria. According to scientists, this is what led him to death. Tutankhamun, who married his sister, had two dead daughters. In ancient Egypt, the alliance between the closest relatives was considered the only way to maintain power.
- The same point of view prevailed in the Inca empire. The same Ptolemy adhered to marriages between blood relatives. The brothers married their sisters. So Cleopatra appeared, which is considered the most beautiful woman who lived at the beginning of the new era.
- On the territory of Zimbabwe, there was previously another state – Monomotap. His ruler had more than 300 wives. At the same time, he married not only women from other families, but married his sisters and even daughters. However, this was allowed only to the ruler. If one of the subjects entered into a similar connection, then it would be executed right away.
Even in ancient times, there were those who considered the incest of sin, while others did not understand how it could be otherwise. The last group can be attributed. Darwin. It is known for the popularization of the concept of “natural selection”. At the same time, he had another side – the researcher married his cousin Emma. The couple was born children and received genetic deviations. Judging by the notes left by the descendants by Darwin himself, out of 10 children, three died babies, and three other could not have children.
- Another vivid historical example is b. Bacland.
The model decorated Vogue covers and other famous magazines. Bacland loved to roll parties, suffered from mood swings, consumed alcohol. Her husband could not stand such a frantic rhythm of life and died, and their common son became a full replacement for her father.
- The Habsburg dynasty was also famous for closely related marriages. However, such a relationship did not bring proper success, the dynasty was interrupted when Charles II passed away – its last representative. According to historians, he could not have children due to congenital genetic diseases.
- Henry VIII was also famous for the fact that he married women 6 times, who were his relatives. But he could not find happiness with anyone. He went crazy and more and more. This is that crazy Tudor, decapitating half of his wives.
- Another interesting historical personality is. Einstein, who became a synonym for genius.
He developed many physical theories that fundamentally changed our ideas about many phenomena. Such a brilliant personality, however, was not aware of everyday matters. He had a closet of the same clothes, and he also made a marriage with his second cousin Elsa.
- Surprisingly, even today alliances are welcome between the closest relatives. During his rich career in. Allen worked with many celebrities, received four Oscars for a significant contribution to the cinema. At the same time, he had many haters because of his close relationship with the stepdaughter, with whom he lives to this day.
- And the last person on our list, so to speak, “Cherry on the Cake” is Queen Elizabeth II, who became the longest -ruler monarch of Great Britain in history. For her reign, she found African decolonization, watched the heyday of technology, the appearance of TV and the Internet. The Queen of Great Britain saw so many and different personalities met in her way, including Prince Philip, who is her second cousin.
Many of the described celebrities are not perverts at all – these are multidivopted people who either fell in love and lived at the call of the heart, or have been sexual relations by accident. In any case, they left their mark in history.
ON A NOTE. In the past, a mixture of blood was of a general in nature, especially in the villages, where the search for their second half was a tiring and long -term journey through the surrounding villages. Today, closely related unions are widespread in eastern countries, where it makes it possible to consolidate family resources and save on dowan.
The opinion of psychologists
Today the blood -embrying is rare. Many psychologists consider such relations between relatives of abnormal. There are established ethical norms that should be between brother and sister, father and daughter, uncle and niece. From the point of view of morality, blood -the -imprutation is bad because it often affects other sexual deviations. For example, it can also be pedophilia when an adult harasses to a child. As for the closely related union between sexually mature people, there are several points of view here. Some people have a disgust, while others do not consider it something reprehensible. However, incest, which is accompanied by a molestation of minors, is persecuted by law.
One of the psychologists, trying to figure out what incest means, compared it to alcoholism. Both – a big problem for society. If the boundaries of relations in the family are blurred, there is a craving for alcohol to prevent the appearance of sexual desire. That is, one is replaced by another: ceasing to drink alcohol, there is excitement in relation to a relative.
E. Westermark put forward the theory: if people of different sexes are brought up from childhood together, then they will not experience amuse. They are characterized by sexual indifference, they do not see any other potential partners.
From a purely household point of view, this is understandable. Well, you must admit, what attraction the father can experience to his daughter if he took her to school and braided her pigtails? What kind of attraction can a brother experience for her sister if he was chasing her with nettles? What kind of attraction can a mother experience for her son if she bathed him in childhood and breastfeed?
People understand on the subconscious about what should be that way, and not otherwise. And if a person experiences a sexual attraction to his child, then something is wrong with him.
In the modern world, the incest is condemned by society. If people who are in a kinship will want to create a family, they will not accept a statement in the registry office. And although incest is still found, it is prohibited by society.
As for morality, this is a mobile issue. Each of us has the right to feel. Life is a complicated thing, and an incestual connection is different, and sometimes it can be calculated quite normal. For example, people who have not seen for years, but are formally connected by blood kinship. However, from a medical point of view, everything is definitely here.
Sexual intercourse between close relatives entails the birth of an unhealthy baby. Carriage causes various genetic pathologies and deviations. Currently, all this can be provided. It is enough to take tests to determine what deviations will be in the child.
Today, society does not approve of marriages between blood relatives. In many countries of the world, incest is prohibited. Nevertheless, scientists from Iceland conducted a study, the results of which showed that such unions lead to an increased ability to born children. Although this does not apply to relatives and cousins and brothers – their offspring, as a rule, are born dead or has many genetic deviations.
Summing up
Closely related unions are prohibited today. On the one hand, the risk of hereditary pathologies in the marriages of second cousins and sisters are quite low. On the other hand, it is difficult to track the presence of “defective” genes in the family. And taking into account the tendency to late pregnancies, the probability of the birth of an unhealthy baby increases significantly. So that such problems do not arise, you need to soberly weigh the consequences of love with a close relative.