Mostly, in today’s society, it is firmly in the public consciousness as a Bad Thing, so you say it and people do lean in the direction of rape and molestation, drugging, slavery, torture. Calls to mind scenes of brother raping sister. The ultimate sexual taboo, well it or bestiality anyway. While, perhaps, in other eras those questions can carry the same weight as incest, today it’s really unimportant. Should my character be blonde, should they be Asian, should they be Jewish. Taboos aren’t like eye colour, and hair colour. Still, that aside, it is an intriguing question. Should it be incorporated into a tale? Oh, dear me, I believe I’ve said all I can about an author asking “should”. I was actually participating, not just browsing, today on the NaNoWriMo forums and incest was brought up. And, no, I’m not here to talk about weird board games, either.
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