~Committing Incest – Cousins Considered Suitable Contenders?~

Incest – Sexual intercourse between two people who are so closely related that they cannot marry each other.

That’s how the New Oxford School Dictionary describes the noun as.

Notice there’s somewhat a grey area shaded over the above sentence. What does the compiler imply by being closely related, close to a point that they cannot marry one another? We all gladly embrace the fact that incest is being sexually caught up with someone in the 1st comfort zone, like for example mom and son relationship, or brother and sister relationship, or sister and sister…the erotic list just goes on.

Here’s the next thing, what about cousins then? 2 categories of cousins as listed;

1. Ever tight cousins
2. Clichéd distant cousins
3. Bloodline related cousins yet distant

I presume most people would accept the 1st pair of cousins being branded an incestuous couple if they really had committed such an immoral act against the will of God. But to the 2nd category, they are relatives whom they had not seen each other for donkey years.

Offset springs out a scenario whereby Joe, after being divorced for 10 years with a son Gary, met up with another and decides to remarry. (The knots were re-tied, the vows were re-said. Doesn’t it seem to you these pledges of eternal love are just orthodox rituals that marrying couples perform hastily to facilitate the marriage? Something to ponder over.) Suddenly, Gary seems to embrace yet another huge set of relatives.

Before long, Gary met up with all the relatives and soon fell in love with his step-mum’s niece, his half-cousin. Not wandering away from the main topic, these two individuals are not people who are so closely related to the point where marriage is out of the question. Nevertheless, just because of the fact that they some form of domestic relations, the ever-gossiping public eye might have a thing or two to batter their eyelids about this seemingly-normal-to-me-personally relationship.

Given this situation, when Gary announced to all his friends that he was getting married to his cousin, their reaction would be shocking. But once Gary highlights on the key word, ‘Half-Cousins’, every scene seems to churn out just fine.

The shocking reaction Gary’s friends all had was against the fact that Gary was intending to marry his cousin of the same surname, running the identical bloodline. It will be like:


“Oh my God, if Gary’s marrying his cousin, wouldn’t he be committing incest?!”

“Isn’t he worried about the factual issue on his offspring developing signs of abnormality?”

“Wouldn’t his uncle turn out to be his father-in-law? And his cousins his siblings-in-laws? It’s so confusing; I wouldn’t want to get myself into a knotty situation like this!

However, if you were one of the two cousins who is so much in love with the other, would you bother? Could you control your emotions towards the love you had been waiting for so long? Do you even dare of giving up this once-in-a-lifetime love? Fortunately, the ever-evolving world has taken on a fast track towards liberation, especially the Asians. So definitely, cousins wouldn’t be contenders for committing incest.

But then again, what if you really fell in love with your younger sister? Liberation sure does have a limit to it, but can you imagine a time where parents really do accept their kids getting married to each other? There wouldn’t be any in-laws, still the same set of relatives, sure does avoid an abundance of hassles. To sum it all up, it Rocks!