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Roger Ailes on Soledad O'Brien: 'That Girl That's Named After a Prison'

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/13/2012 4:27:19 pm PDT

re: #139 Adam, Eve and Steve

Power balance is not an argument to outlaw incest unless you also want to outlaw a middle-aged millionaire bonking 18 y.o. women.

Well, it’s a very different sort of power imbalance. There isn’t anything like a familial relation. I’m not saying all relationships involving a power imbalance ought to be prohibited, but that you can argue that familial relations would constitute ones that do.

The main reason I care about it is for parent-child incest, where it’s far more likely to have begun in coercion and continue in the shadow of that coercion, and that can be impossible to prove due to, well, the coercion.