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Ironically, incest is vital to the development of extreme traits in prized domesticated plants and animals.  This is called "line breeding", and it is typically done by mating offspring with their parents.  Since a few generations of this can lead to problems as described above, then there is usually an "out breeding" to remix the genes a bit.
 
Ironically, incest is vital to the development of extreme traits in prized domesticated plants and animals.  This is called "line breeding", and it is typically done by mating offspring with their parents.  Since a few generations of this can lead to problems as described above, then there is usually an "out breeding" to remix the genes a bit.
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While many see it as the 'rational' position to oppose incest because of obvious genetics issue, a fact that largely seems to be ignored in debates is that incest doesn't has to be procreative: gay incestuous couples, for instance, would have a hard time trying to make babies; and people unable to have children, or simply using birth control, would conveniently bypass the number one rational justification for anti-incestuism (that's a real term... right?).
  
 
Don't forget: There's many a true word spoken incest. <sub>''(incest → in jest, geddit? It's a pun, or play on words. Oh, forget it then if that's how you feel)''</sub>
 
Don't forget: There's many a true word spoken incest. <sub>''(incest → in jest, geddit? It's a pun, or play on words. Oh, forget it then if that's how you feel)''</sub>

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Incest, "The Game the Whole Family Can Play", is the activity of having sex with your close relatives and the only known point on which Christian fundamentalists and rational geneticists agree: Do Not Do This.[1]

There's nothing wrong with incest - as long as it's kept in the family - but the biological result of too much incest (if safe sex is not practiced) can be the manifestation of normally rare, recessive, genetic traits with unpleasant consequences. Another result of reproductive incest is that one's family tree starts to look more like a ladder.

Ironically, incest is vital to the development of extreme traits in prized domesticated plants and animals. This is called "line breeding", and it is typically done by mating offspring with their parents. Since a few generations of this can lead to problems as described above, then there is usually an "out breeding" to remix the genes a bit.

While many see it as the 'rational' position to oppose incest because of obvious genetics issue, a fact that largely seems to be ignored in debates is that incest doesn't has to be procreative: gay incestuous couples, for instance, would have a hard time trying to make babies; and people unable to have children, or simply using birth control, would conveniently bypass the number one rational justification for anti-incestuism (that's a real term... right?).

Don't forget: There's many a true word spoken incest. (incest → in jest, geddit? It's a pun, or play on words. Oh, forget it then if that's how you feel)

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Poemtry

"Incest is best, put your sister to the test".

Quotes

  • "The trouble with incest is that it gets you involved with relatives." -- George S. Kaufman
  • "You should make a point of trying every experience once -- except incest and folk-dancing." -- A. Bax, "Farewell My Youth"
  • "If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family." -- Anonymous
  • "Why go out when you can go down the hall?" -- My friend Jon, but he steals everything so probably anonymous
  • "Why go down the hall when you can just go to the top bunk?" -- Jon Bontrager (allegedly)

Variety

  • Wincest — when you have sex with your hot sister or cousin and no one else in the family knows.
  • Twincest — when two hot identical female (rarely male, except in fanfiction, where they are almost always male) twins go at it.

See also

Footnotes

  1. On the other hand Republicans seem not to have much trouble with it, at least when no one is looking, as Tony J. Marino, a Republican candidate for the Oregon state legislature, was convicted of incestuous activities with his daughter, which he apparently did not regret at all. [1]
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