Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship

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The law seems pretty stupid to me in this regard.

Grooming someone for sex is presumably a crime anyway, so it would apply to incestuous relationships too where it could be demonstrated. And in that case, there would be no need to also lock up the "victim". I'm not suggesting that happened here necessarily.

As far as I know people don't generally need discouraging, certainly not legally, from having (consenting) incestuous relationships. I believe there's some general evolutionary repellant, I forget the name. Westmark or something?

Sure, it has dangers when producing children. But we don't stop people very likely to pass on much more serious conditions from having children, so it seems rather over the top to me. It's always socially frowned upon, regardless of legal status. I think it's all an "eww" law, when it comes down to it.