By Jonatas Dornelles
Anthropologist

In every human society both partners of a couple would be forbidden from stringing up any sexual rapport with next of kin. Hence, the restrictions against sexual contact between brothers and sisters are almost universal likewise those concerning parents and their offspring. The prohibition for affairs between relatives and next of kin and siblings betweem themselves is bound to suppress any sexual rivalry and jealousy whithin the family core.

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By Jonatas Dornelles
Anthropologist

Sexual congress between members of the same family is called “incest”. Accurate surveys have brought to light that the incest, within all the prohibitions lingering to human sexuality, is what concerns everyone, peoples or civilizations most, in every single corner in the history of humankind. Broadly in every culture or civilization, the incestuous behavior has been viewed as social threat and, because of that, largely forbidden. 

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