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Switzerland Debates Legalizing Incest
Filed under: Relatives, In The News, Sex
Will incest become legal in Switzerland? Credit: Fabrice Coffrini, AFP/Getty Images
Swiss parliament may be giving a new meaning to the term "brotherly love." They have drafted a law that would repeal incest laws so that family members could have sex, if they so pleased.
Some claim incest laws are obsolete because there have only been three cases in the past three decades, The Telegraph reports.
Daniel Visher, a Green Party MP, is in favor of the law. "Incest is a difficult moral question, but not one that is answered by penal law," he told The Telegraph. Pun intended? We're not sure.
The Protestant People's Party and The Christian People's Party of Switzerland are on the opposite side, claiming incest should remain punishable. Who ever said Switzerland was neutral?
A spokesperson for The Protestant People's Party points out the obvious, "Murder is also quite rare in Switzerland but no one suggests that we remove that as an office from the statutes."
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1-29-2011 @ 5:26PM
mabelfloyd said...children born from siblings have a much higher rate of defects. keep the laws against family sex.
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2-02-2011 @ 1:13PM
Maki Sov said...What if this has something to do with race preservation? Switzerland, Germany, and a few other countries are known for having a high number of White Nationalists. I believe they would easily resort to incest to make sure it stays "in the family". Pun intended.
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2-07-2011 @ 6:31PM
Pavelina said...My 14 yr old brother tried to have sex with me when I was 9. My uncle when I was 11. I got away both times. I'm now 76 and still cringe when I think of it. The unconditional love of family members for each other is a gift that provides a warm and safe haven for many who are lucky enough to know it. I envy those people. There's a world of people to have sex with outside of one's family.
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2-16-2011 @ 9:22PM
k9marcs said...Good grief- these pro incest posts just show what we have become-mere ANIMALS, not rational human beings!! Any one of you that thinks this is natural for the HUMAN species- soooo very sorry for you!! Next thing we will hear about is two males wanting to be married so they can have anal intercourse---- wait, we seem to be doing that as well!! Every day, as a retired deputy sheriff, I think that depravity cannot get any worse-and as usual, I am proved wrong- THEY CAN GET worse!! Next on the agenda, as I see it- legal sex with corpses- after all, they cannot claim rape!!!
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2-16-2011 @ 9:36PM
Marianne said...So if they change the law to make it permissible for consenting adult relatives to have sexual relations (pun intended), would it also be permissible for the relatives to get married? Removing the criminality of consanguineous sex seems like a bigger step than condoning intra-familial marriage, IMO.
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