"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Note to weird Australian father/daughter: Ewwww, that's not right people, it's just not right.

Somehow, they managed to rule effectively for a few thousand years...

well, there's no resisting sex w/yr dad with red hot attraction like that, is there? weirdest thing about the article, imo.

and the congenital heart failure of their first child...very well had nothing to do with the incest. single generation incest does not result in birth-defected offspring any more than any other two unrelated people would produce. that's popular mythology.

Do you have any documentation for that? First cousins, sure, but really close relations do have a higher risk.

"I don't feel toward you as if you were my daughter."
"I don't feel as if you were my Father."
"What a tragedy. What are we going to do about it? I have met the woman of my life, the ideal, and it is my daughter! I cannot even kiss you as I would like to. I'm in love with my own daughter!"
"Everything you feel, I feel."
...
He uncovered himself. I caressed him with my hand. I saw him quiver with desire.
With a strange violence, I lifted my negligee and I lay over him.
"Toi, Anais! Je n'ai plus de Dieu!"

we should have a book club meeting about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze67MLUFc-Q

sorry. i don't know how to do the word/link thingy.

Remember that we mentioned that genes come in pairs. Sometimes the pairs match (called homozygous) and sometimes they don't (heterozygous). Inbreeding does not cause genetic problems. But inbreeding does increase the chances of creating matched pairs. And if the particular pair that matches up is recessive then you will see in the puppies something you did not see in either parent. It could be a good thing or a bad thing. Incest breeding is like breeding with a magnifier. It makes whatever is there bigger, and happen more often. Incest inbreeding risks get bigger with each generation. The first time it happens it is less risky than if there is more incest breeding in the background.

--dogplay.com

Why not sterilize themselves, then adopt if they want the kids?

The 20+ yrs I've been in MN I always heard it called 'Stearns County Syndrome'. The first Google listing is kind of amusing (I suck at the linking thing also).

Neither of these people is attractive enough for anyone else to want to fuck them, but do they have to bring innocent kids into it? Good Lord.

We agreed on the former because my friend, who read a lot, was really interested in seeing how it would translate to the big screen. Personally, I don't think that I have ever seen anything so obscene in my life, and I don't mean the incest theme either. It was my introduction to teenage-female-martyrdom porn.

The book club video is hilarious. I'm sure that is how a V.C. Andrews book club would turn out. I think the flowers in the attic series was the first and last set of trash novels I ever read! I think I need to get me some more trash to counteract all my years in college! :)

And yah, I saw the movie too. It was just plain weird. About all I remember was I think it was the mother who was pushed off a balcony in her wedding dress. If it was 1987 I would have been 14 at the time. lol

good times. lol

The Egyptian royals were again practicing brother-sister incest rather than parent-child incest. This is further confused by Egyptian kinship terms which do not match up exactly with those in modern English.
This is of course still not a good idea in the long run - there were 31 different ruling dynasties after all!