I've been kind of wondering about this lately after coincidentally having a couple different conversations about it, and then coming across this article.
Do you guys think consensual incest is a thing that actually exists? It's something that I find interesting to read about but it sort of seems like one of those "only in fiction" type things to me. I guess if there were siblings who didn't grow up together and then met as adults and wanted to date or whatever because they don't see each other as siblings, that seems somewhat plausible. But for someone to just randomly decide one day as an adult (or even as a teenager) that they're romantically interested in their sibling seems pretty unlikely to me.
Like I said above, it's a topic I find interesting and something I've considered writing about before, but I'm just not sure it's all that realistic (although I suppose something doesn't necessarily need to be realistic to write a story about it). In the past I've disagreed with people who said incestuous relationships were always abusive even if they seemed consensual, but now I'm wondering if they're right, because how could something like that happen in a relatively "normal" family where there wasn't any abuse?
I don't know, I'm just kind of curious to see what other people think. Do you think it's possible for two siblings to actually have a consensual relationship? (I'm sticking to siblings for the sake of this discussion; parent/child is a whole other thing and a bit more of a black and white issue IMO.)
What do you guys think about this? (TW: incest, possible abuse?)
I've been kind of wondering about this lately after coincidentally having a couple different conversations about it, and then coming across this article.
Do you guys think consensual incest is a thing that actually exists? It's something that I find interesting to read about but it sort of seems like one of those "only in fiction" type things to me. I guess if there were siblings who didn't grow up together and then met as adults and wanted to date or whatever because they don't see each other as siblings, that seems somewhat plausible. But for someone to just randomly decide one day as an adult (or even as a teenager) that they're romantically interested in their sibling seems pretty unlikely to me.
Like I said above, it's a topic I find interesting and something I've considered writing about before, but I'm just not sure it's all that realistic (although I suppose something doesn't necessarily need to be realistic to write a story about it). In the past I've disagreed with people who said incestuous relationships were always abusive even if they seemed consensual, but now I'm wondering if they're right, because how could something like that happen in a relatively "normal" family where there wasn't any abuse?
I don't know, I'm just kind of curious to see what other people think. Do you think it's possible for two siblings to actually have a consensual relationship? (I'm sticking to siblings for the sake of this discussion; parent/child is a whole other thing and a bit more of a black and white issue IMO.)