Learned - not innate - and context dependent… Even the incest taboo is LEARNED, not innate.
What your brain’s brakes and accelerator respond to is almost entirely LEARNED, not innate. What it takes to like or want something is BOTH that it’s sexually relevant AND that it doesn’t “ hit the brakes.” Anything sexually relevant will hit the accelerator, but only something nonthreatening and safe will release the brake. Now remember: “arousal response” only means, “That’s sexually relevant.” Your genitals can respond to any idea that’s “sexually relevant,” but that doesn’t mean that you actually like or want the sexually relevant thing. And the combination of “sexual relevance” with the ironic process results in as much, if not more, arousal response as something that is sexually relevant and also just plain old sexually appealing. This is not a conscious or deliberate process - it happens automatically, without volition. Get it? Embedded in the idea, “Don’t respond to that sexually relevant information,” is the idea, “Respond to that sexually relevant information.” When things are taboo, I think what happens is they activate the ironic process, which is the process that makes it impossible, when someone tells you, “Don’t think about a bear,” not to think about a bear. The idea is both sexually relevant - by which I mean it contains information that your brain codes as “sexual,” whether it’s appealing or not, and something can definitely be “relevant” without also being appealing- and also profoundly taboo. How can the idea be aversive - even repulsive - in some contexts and erotic in others? In the context of a story - a fictional story - the idea of consensual sibling incest can be not just erotic, but intensely erotic.
#Incest flic tv
And during a commercial break, this friend told me that there’s a whole slash fiction world of “Wincest” - Sam and Dean Winchester, fictional brothers on the TV show Supernatural, getting it on.
#Incest flic movie
I went over to a friend’s house to watch Flowers in the Attic, a TV movie based on a book, in which - spoilers - two adolescent siblings have sex consensually (though apparently in the original book version, there’s more ambiguity about the consent than there is in the movie). The idea alone can be as aversive as if our own sibling had actually touched our genitals.īut, like most things about sex, it’s context dependent. In fact, most people will flinch and grimace just as much at the thought of two fictional siblings having sex together as they do at the thought of themselves having sex with their own siblings. So there are known examples of culturally sanctioned consensual sibling incest.Īmong nonroyals and among virtually everyone in the modern industralized West, just the thought of sibling incest causes us to flinch and grimace.
(Which just might go to show that the human instinct for protecting the genetic health of offspring can be sidelined by the almost equally powerful human instinct for consolidating power and wealth.) In the royal families of traditional Hawaiian culture and a number of other royal lines around the globe and across history sibling incest was favored and the offspring of these unions were perceived as more sacred than any other. Incest is arguably the most nearly-universal sexual taboo in our species, possibly because of the real genetic problems that often arise when closely related humans reproduce together - though it is by no means truly universal. And there are at least two different concepts involved in “consensual sibling incest.” The first is the idea and the second is the act. I’m going to limit my post today to consensual sibling incest, since that answer is somewhat different than for nonconsensual sibling incest. (Short version: your brain has an innate mechanism for learning, from both direct and social experience, what is “yucky” and what is “yummy.”) The person wanted to know what it meant if someone’s disgust mechanism isn’t activated by the idea of sibling incest. I got a question in my email from someone who read my posts on the Purity moral foundation and its role in sexual disgust. This post is about consensual sibling incest, so read it or not, accordingly.
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