"relative" sex? how common is it?

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Registered: 04-10-2006
"relative" sex? how common is it?
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Tue, 05-23-2006 - 11:10am

I heard on the radio this morning a man talking about his marriage. He married his STEP-sister! His father and the girl's mother were married when the kids were little, but were divorced later. But the boy and girl (step-siblings) grew up and met again later in life, fell in love, and married.

The radio hosts were being a bit rude, jokingly calling their marriage "incest", when there is actually no "blood" relation, so there is nothing illegal about it.

So the radio hosts asked a pretty good question: How common is it to have a sexual relationship with someone who was/is within your "family"?? With the high rate of divorce, split homes, multiple marriages and such, I would think that a situation similar to the one I heard on the radio might be more common than we believe.

With all the step-parents, step-siblings, half-siblings, in-laws, cousins twice removed, etc. out there from all of the marriages and divorces, what kinds of relationships are people having with their own "family" that are not technically illegal, but possibly a moral delimma?

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Registered: 03-17-2006
Wed, 05-24-2006 - 11:01pm

This all reminds me of a song!!

Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.

To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.

For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother, too.

If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.

For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!

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Registered: 03-20-2006
Thu, 05-25-2006 - 2:05pm

Why does the song "I'm my own grandpa" come to mind when I read this??? LOL

My step-mother has 2 sisters and 1 brother(J). J married P, so that makes her our(my sister and mine) step-Aunt. They have 2 children(our step-cousins). A few yrs later my sister starts dating M and eventually marry and have children. Well P and M are brother and sister. So now my sisters step-Aunt is also her sister-in-law and their children are not only her step-cousins but her nieces/nephews as well.

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Registered: 03-20-2006
Thu, 05-25-2006 - 2:07pm
LOL Didn't even read all posts and I had that thought, which I posted. Now to read further and see someone else did as well is funny!

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