B. Lorenzo Buckinchere
Aug 18, 2024
Incest has a stigma attached to it that often leads to social shame and degradation. Incest is defined as having sexual relations with a blood relative, that is the simple definition. However, incest delves much deeper than meets the eye.
Just food for thought, but in this article, we will be giving some historical context on the different forms of incest, and explore what kind is more tolerable, versus what is not.
The reason why incest is not encouraged started out with concerns that are more biological in nature than it is social. Because if the blood of both parents are too similar, then their offspring would have an increased chance of developing autism, and/or sickle cell, among other diseases.
For that reason, infant mortality chances are higher. Not only that, but the expectancy for a normal quality of life diminishes if the product of incest survives infancy. It so turns out that there is an advantage to mixing one’s blood, whether racially or familially.
Because if one family has a history of cancer, and the other family’s genes are stronger, that cancer may possibly skip a generation, or be rinsed from both their bloodline all together.
Incest was not uncommon among early humans, as there is evidence of it taking place throughout medevial Europe. It only became a social stigma in recent history, and for really good reason. It served to prevent the birth of more inbred morons. But what if I told you that almost everyone on earth is somehow related?
It is no secret that the population of humans on earth has boomed over the last century. At the turn of the common era, there were only two civilizations on earth who kept census records, the Roman Empire and the Chinese silk road.
There were other tribes on earth at the time, but they were few in number, and mostly scattered across the earth. The global population was estimated to be around one hundred million people.
Most oriental people are said to be descendants of Genghis Khan, as he is believed to have fathered many children throughout his lifetime. If that claim is true, then almost all Asian people are somehow related.
In 1066 CE, the Normans invaded England during the Battle of Hastings. They conquered the anglo-saxons, and William I was crowned king. William was believed to have fathered many children, so it is commonly believed that many modern British people are descendants of King William.
With this occurrence taking place in China and England, we can assume that it is a recurring practice of Kings and Emperors throughout all civilizations.
One can only expect that the same is true of King Solomon being the common ancestor of many jews, or Julius Caesar being the common ancestor of the people living in most modern countries that are former Roman provinces.
It was widely known that Kings and Emperors had many concubines. The more vast his power, the more concubines he had. Some of those concubines were commoners who wanted to mix their blood with royalty.
And what king would refuse the advances of an attractive, voluptuous seductress? The more concubines he had, the greater his chances of spreading his seed.
Migration and settlement patterns throughout the centuries would see that king’s blood travel to all corners of the earth, and as such, the likelihood of being related to people from distant lands have increased.
Fast forward to the turn of the 20th century, and the global population has grown past one billion. This is good for trade and commerce, because the 20th century saw a paradigm shift in the west, where the economy went from being largely agricultural, to being industrial. A large population would fuel the workforce that is needed to sustain an industrialized economy.
The population further increased shortly after the second world war, as the world witnessed the largest baby boom in all the history of the world up until that point, hence how that generation got their name. The population was then around five billion strong, and would increase to seven billion over the next 60 years.
In 2024, we are 8 billion strong, and most of us are related by blood in some way, yet that hasn’t stopped the population from increasing even more. The population is estimated to reach ten billion people globally by 2050.
When you see a girl you like, and you decide to ask her out, chances are, you are asking out your cousin. But that’s ok, so long as she is not your first cousin.
Needless to say, having sexual relations with parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are unacceptable. Particularly because there is a power dynamic between parent and child. Even if all parties involved are consenting adults, it leaves one to wonder why the child thinks incest is normal.
Siblings are still too close. Even though they are in the same age group, there are still too many similarities in their blood that would have a negative impact on their offsprings.
Then there are kissing cousins.
The nobility have been known to marry first cousins so as to keep the wealth within their bloodline. Working class white puritans also marry their first cousins to keep their bloodline from mixing with another race. As there is no way of them knowing whether or not a white person outside of their family is purely white.
Those two groups commit incest for a specific reason, then there are those who commit incest just because they feel like it, and they just don’t care what anyone else thinks. Or they were raised like that, and they think it is normal.
First cousins are entirely too close in blood. Third cousins, I think, are safer. But even fifth cousins are still too close for my taste. If I meet a super random stranger, and she just so happens to be related to me, she is likely to be a 10th cousin, or perhaps more distant, which is fine.
While relationships between very distant relatives may technically involve shared blood, they do not carry the same risks or social stigmas as closer relations. Therefore, such relationships are often not considered incest in the conventional sense.