"I suppose I take an unpopular view that it's actually moral progress," Jesse Bering, who is the author of Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All Of Us, told HuffPost Live's Josh Zepps. "There are certain caveats that we need to include with our analysis of whether incest is wrong or right, but for me, the biggest point is a matter of harm." Go To Site

Liberal, Character, Sex, Degeneracy

Consensual incest advocates are rooting for an anonymous New York parent who wants to marry their own adult child.

  Australian Richard Morris, who is pushing to change incest laws in about 60 countries, said he supports the legal push in Manhattan Federal Court and that such behavior between consenting adults “should not be criminalized.”

  He and other advocates have launched about 130 petitions, mostly on change.org, seeking to change incest laws around the world...

  Fighting for true “marriage equality” is “the right thing to do, isn’t it?” Morris said.

  “It seems to be as unjust as the law that used to imprison gay people, and the law that used to stop people of different races marrying,” he added.

Liberal, Sex, Degeneracy, Academia

Consensual sex between adult siblings should be legal, according to Thomas Søbirk Petersen, a professor of ethics at Roskilde University. Petersen said the rise in the number of births resulting from donor sperm that creates biological siblings who may well be from different families has created a need to rethink old taboos.

Liberal, Sex, Degeneracy

Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. “Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”