RE: Would you have a relationship with a member of your immediate family?
August 11, 2016 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2016 at 3:15 pm by Excited Penguin.)
I have no idea. I find none of my current relatives attractive in order for it to be possible for me to have any sexual thoughts about them.
Nor do I think I would find my kids attractive, if I ever had any. Nor do I think I'd go there in a million years, even if somehow I did. Doing that would take something away from the incredible bond between a parent and a child. The word sacrilege appropriately comes to my mind.
But I don't think it would be wrong, on an ethical level, if both parties would be happy and had nothing to lose because of it.
If the question was phrased differently though, like more about fantasies than real life, I may answer differently. That may sound gross, as well as contradictory with what I just said, but it's not. I can also imagine killing someone and enjoying it, like you do in a video game, that doesn't mean I would enjoy it at all if I did it in real life. I would be devastated, disgusted beyond imagination, terrified and just traumatised, basically. It's the same with incest, in my mind. One is escapism so far removed from reality that you can't connect it with the latter in any meaningful way, and the other is plain simple reality, in which things work and feel very differently. People who can connect the two, might have mental problems, for all I know, at least in some cases.
In other words, the only way I could find any appeal in that kind of thing is if it's something my mind came up with, involving no real persons, but imagined ones. But definitely not something I would consider or even enjoy in real life with actual people who are related to me.
Nor do I think I would find my kids attractive, if I ever had any. Nor do I think I'd go there in a million years, even if somehow I did. Doing that would take something away from the incredible bond between a parent and a child. The word sacrilege appropriately comes to my mind.
But I don't think it would be wrong, on an ethical level, if both parties would be happy and had nothing to lose because of it.
If the question was phrased differently though, like more about fantasies than real life, I may answer differently. That may sound gross, as well as contradictory with what I just said, but it's not. I can also imagine killing someone and enjoying it, like you do in a video game, that doesn't mean I would enjoy it at all if I did it in real life. I would be devastated, disgusted beyond imagination, terrified and just traumatised, basically. It's the same with incest, in my mind. One is escapism so far removed from reality that you can't connect it with the latter in any meaningful way, and the other is plain simple reality, in which things work and feel very differently. People who can connect the two, might have mental problems, for all I know, at least in some cases.
In other words, the only way I could find any appeal in that kind of thing is if it's something my mind came up with, involving no real persons, but imagined ones. But definitely not something I would consider or even enjoy in real life with actual people who are related to me.
