Are incest fantasies common? Are they healthy and acceptable?
See my post on Genetic Sexual Attraction. The link seems to be dead, but you should Google the term – use quotes and you should get a lot of good results. Here’s one from the Guardian; the money statistic is in the intro: 50% of reunions between siblings, or parents and offspring, separated at birth result in obsessive emotions. “Obsessive emotions”, btw, is a calculated eupemism for sexual feelings. Here’s the biology simplified. Most mating is assortive on almost all traits. Here’s Jared Diamond from 1986 Discover magazine article: If you measure enough things about enough couples, the answer that finally emerges is unexpectedly simple: on the average, spouses resemble each other slightly but significantly in almost every physical feature. That goes not only for the traits you’d th
I was wondering if any of you have had good experiences with being open about such things. That’s an emphatic “yes.” I was raised an only child by a single mom, and missed out perhaps on a lot of social conditioning. While I haven’t fantasized a whole ton, I’ve been very open with partners when it’s come up (and it does, when you start talking about sexual play and sometimes in just random situations) that I’d find the idea of having sex with a brother or sister of mine pretty sexy (though not my real half brother or real half sister, on reflection). I actually had one guy toward the beginning of my sexual life who said he’d be like a brother to me, and it made me feel closer to him. So for positive stories, there you go. Really, you’re fine. Telling people about your fantasies, so long as it’s not done in a really intense “this is a HUGE DEAL to me” sort of way, probably won’t result in revulsion. Only caveat is that it is possible other women are more conservative than I am sexually,
