Re: sibling incest and consent

[John M Price PhD <jmprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jennifer Guimond wrote:

> abused and no one should dispute her experience.  However, there are cases when
> siblings become mutually sexually involved as if they are boyfriend and
> girlfriend and neither find the experience abusive.  Bank and Kahn (1982) refer
> to this as nurturance-oriented incest (as opposed to power-oriented incest).
> They say that nurturance-oriented incest occurs within dysfunctional families
> where children turn to each other to meet their needs for love and affection.  I
> have no idea how often this occurs, but antecdotes are seen in the literature.

I suggest being very skeptical of the so called antecedants to this type
of relationship, especially with literature written by clinicians.  (I've
not read the cited work, but the ever-present 'dysfunctional family' is a
red flag for me.)  Look for solid data to support this opinion, or, if it
is only opinion based on the particular therapeutic school of the writer
(e.g. there is this incestuous relationship, ergo there MUST be a
precceding dysfunction in the family)  perhaps discard it for the time
being.  If you see in your data support for it, then integrate it.  If
you don't, then flatly debunk it with the facts you've developed.



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