This document defines and discusses incest, which involves sexual relations between family members. It describes three major categories of incest and four types, including cross-generational, peer, same-sex, and multiple incest. Potential psychological effects on victims are outlined, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Laws regarding incest vary globally and within countries, with some considering it legal and others prohibiting it due to cultural and religious views.

1. INCEST

2. WHAT IS INCEST?
- infraction of the taboo upon sexual relations between
any two members of the nuclear family except
husband and wife, that is, between parents and
children or any sibling pair.

3. 3 MAJOR CATEGORIES OF INCEST

4. CONSANGUINAL INCEST (BETWEEN BLOOD
RELATIVES)

5. AFFINIAL INCEST (BETWEEN ADOPTION OR
MARRIAGE)

6. QUASI-RELATIVE INCEST (FOSTER PARENT OR
LIVE-IN PARTNER WHO TAKES ON THE ROLES OF HUSBAND
AND FATHER)

7. 4 TYPES OF INCEST
 Cross-Generational Incest
 Peer Incest
 Same-sex Incest
 Multiple Incest

8. CROSS-GENERATIONAL INCEST
* Involves sexual contact with a considerably older or a
quasi-relative who plays a guardian role in the child’s life.

9. PEER INCEST
* incest involves sexual contact between individuals who
are close in age. Sexual curiosity, observation, and
exploration between age-mates, is normal in humans.

10. SAME-SEX INCEST
• Research suggests that same-sex incest, whether it
involves males or females (although same-sex incest
seems to involve boys more than girls), is vastly under-
reported and under-investigated because its
occurrence involves breaking two taboos incest and
homosexuality.

11. MULTIPLE INCEST
* Applied to situations wherein a victim is abused by
more than one perpetrator either concurrently or
sequentially, as well as to situations in which a
perpetrator abuses more than one victim.

12. What is the main
factor affecting
INCEST?

13. • Causing incestuous tendencies is a MALFUNCTIONING
BRAIN.
• Results to sex in public, promiscuity, stranger rape, or child
sexual abuse in the family.

14. WHY DO MEN HAVE SEX WITH THEIR
CHILDREN?
 He gets an enormous kick out of the experience
 This brings him immense joy and pride.
 He is fond of the lesson he is teaching her, and he is
pleased by the somatic and sexual qualities of his
student.

15. EFFECTS OF INCEST ON THE VICTIM
1. general behavior problems
2. Delinquency
3. Anxiety
4. regressive behaviors
5. Nightmares
6. withdrawal from normal activities
7. internalizing and externalizing disorders
8. cruelty and self-injury
9. post-traumatic stress disorder1
0. poor self-esteem, and
11. age-inappropriate sexual behavior.

16. 2 COMMON PATTERNS OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE
TO INCEST

17. 1. Post Traumatic Stress symptomology
-is brought on by
witnessing a terrifying,
usually life-threatening,
event. Severe anxiety,
flashbacks, uncontrollable
thoughts and nightmares
are common symptoms of
the illness.

18. 2. Increase in sexualized behavior

19. LONG-TERM PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF INCEST
•  Anxiety & Depression
•  learning difficulties
•  Psychiatric
•  Post traumatic stress hospitalization disorder
•  Drug and alcohol use
•  Prostitution
•  Suicidal tendency
•  Poor parenting
•  Borderline personality
•  Increased likelihood of disorder being a perpetrator

20. EFFECTS OF INCEST ON THE CHILD BORN
 Elevated incidence of recessive genetic diseases:
• 1. Reduced fertility
• 2. Increased congenital defects
• 3. Fluctuating asymmetry
• 4. Lower birth weight
• 5. Higher neonatal mortality
• 6. Slower growth rate
• 7. Smaller adult size
• 8. Loss of immune system function

21. Laws regarding incest vary, from legal to
prohibited, in different countries. Incest is illegal
in many jurisdictions. It varies by country, and
by even individual states or provinces within a
country.

22. PROHIBITED
• Austria
• Belgium
• Germany
• Canada
• England
• Finland
• Japan
LIST OF SOME COUNTRIES WHERE
INCEST IS…
NOT PROHIBITED
• Belgium
• Portugal
• Spain
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Brazil
• France

23. IMMORAL
• Human Policies
• Religious point of view
• Catholic
NOT IMMORAL
• Human Policies
• Individual point of view
• Islam gives certain
PROHIBITIONS
INCEST IS…

24. IS INCEST A CRIME?
As mentioned…
 There are laws in each country which varies judgment regarding
incest.
 It is the country or state’s discretion if such is to be considered as
crime.

25. INCEST IS NOT A CRIME.
As long as…
 Individuals are over the minimum age of consent.
 There is no use of force.
 Country or States’ law does not prohibit such incident.

26. INCEST IS NOT A CRIME.
YES, IT IS!

27. INCEST IS NOT IMMORAL.
YES, IT IS!

28. REFERENCES
• https://www.reddit.com/r/incest_relationships/
• http://bigthink.com/think-tank/is-incest-wrong
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10958728/Au
stralian-judge-says-incest-may-no-longer-be-a-taboo.html
• http://study.com/academy/lesson/incest-taboo-definition-lesson-quiz.html
• http://www.studylecturenotes.com/basics-of-sociology/what-is-incest-taboo-theories-of-
incest-taboo