Forum - View topicAnyone bothered by incestuous relationships in some anime?
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jcindiana
Posts: 5 Location: Indiana, hence the name |
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Being from Indiana, I am sort of an expert on incest.
Just kidding. Actually, this subject has had me scratching my head for a while. The fact that it appears in so many different shows makes me think there must be something attractive about this subject to the Japanese. This theme wouldn't be nearly as common if there weren't a market for it. What does this imply? I don't really care. I'll let you ponder that one. Frankly, the subject doesn't bug me. |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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It's part of a subject fairly common in all forms of artistic creations thoughout the history and around the globe: forbidden love. Love between two married persons. Love between different social castes. Love between races. Love between two families hating each other for centuries. Love between two warring states. Love between the same sex. Love between kinship. Love between different life forms. Et cetera. Incest relationships is just too much a taboo that many still can't accept it even in fictional form. Remember that interracial and same-sex romances were accepted into the mainstream (but still being resented by many) rather recently (~20-40 years, depending on regions and cultures), following the liberation of love between aristocrats and commoners less than a century ago. |
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Dracoowl
 Posts: 19 Location: England |
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Hmmm first time I saw incest was in the new episodes of Fushigi Yuugi spoiler[where Tamahome lost his memories]. spoiler[A brother and a sister was in love but they died in the middle of the series -.-]
Not my stuff though. |
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jetz
 Posts: 2148 Location: Manila, Philippines |
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I am a bit. I think people with siblings are bothered by this subject. If it's not too thorough I may brush it off, but if it's anything like the twins in Shakugan no Shana then I will definitely be bothered!
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KyuuA4
 Posts: 1361 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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Now, if it is lesbian twincest, I'm all for that.
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Time and Space
Posts: 167 Location: China |
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(Heh, "love between two warring states" that leads me to wonder why the states are warring in the first place  )
Too many people are likening homosexual relationships and the taboo that once surrounded them, and incestuous relationships, which I feel are still rightly condemned for legitimate reasons. A gay couple is like a heterosexual couple in every way, except they cannot reproduce. Due to the secularisation of political intstitutions and western culture in general, old religious traditions about fulfilling the purpose of sex by creating children are no longer considered valid, even in various Christian denominations, and probably other religions. Our governments prohibit certain sexual acts, admittedly, sometimes for bad reasons, hence homosexuality was once condemned, but concerning incest, the reason is legitimate. Sexual relations between two who share the same parents are more likely to produce offspring who have debilitating genetic mutations, therefore banning such acts seems to be the best way to prevent such misfortunes. Regardless of this, it would be supremely inefficient of our genetic survival if we were to reproduce with our blood relatives because we could not produce children, as a result, it is highly likely that built within our DNA is a process whereby we are made to recognise who our siblings are, and if we ever think about having sex with them, we do so with revulsion. There are likely exceptions, as is evident with homosexuals. However, unless one is strongly swayed by some kind of slippery slope argument, then it is easy for someone to dismiss all of this and simply say "contraception", and if a brother and sister produce together a deformed child, then it can be aborted, which is another moral dilemma altogether. But don't forget slippery slope...innumerable abortions...admission of zoophilia...necrophilia(any objections? I can't think of any...you could pimp out your dead grandmother...ugh sorry)...even paedophilia? This topic is just wrong actually, I think I wrote too much and I thought I was on an Anime message board. |
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Keonyn
 Subscriber Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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There's actually a new thread for this topic open so let's move the discussion over to that one which you can find here. We don't really need two threads going on the same topic and as this one was dead for 2 years it's best just to use the newer thread.
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