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In reply to the discussion: The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell [View all]Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)The point Farrell was making about incest was that there are people out there who have participated in incest and not had any negative psychological effects from it. It's not as if this is anything new. Freud, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, and others have all noted this in various studies. However, due to religious and cultural attitudes towards incest, those who have experienced it (10-20% of the population) are often stigmatized for life by friends and family members. Therefore at some level, the fear and ignorance of what incest is and isn't revictimizes those who have experienced it because they simply can't talk to anyone about it and they are sentenced to a lifetime of shame and often rejection. So rather than encouraging more understanding of incest, which is a good thing, they falsely claim Farrell is encouraging incest simply because they can't deal with the inconvenient facts he points out on a completely different subject. I find that behavior more than a bit repulsive.