Medical Impacts of Incest
Incest may be defined as sexual intercourse by a man with a woman who is closely related to him by blood, e.g., daughter, mother, sister, grandmother, stepsister, aunt, etc. The range of prohibited degrees of relationship differs from religion to religion and race to race; for example, sexual relationships with cousins are regarded as incestuous in the Hindu religion but not in Islam.
CAUSES OF INCEST
- Mental defective person
- Alcoholism
- Drug addiction
- Live in a very intimate
- Socially demoralized
- Perversions, nymphomania
- Accidental—long-time separation, Father’s promiscuity,
- Artificial insemination
- Surrogacy
MAIN THREE INCESTs
- Oedipus Complex—the sexual relationship between mother and son
- Electra Complex—a sexual relationship between father and daughter
- Pharaon Complex—sexual relationship between brother and sister
COMPLICATIONS
- Moral turpitude
- Chance of transmission of hereditary diseases
- Generic degradation
- Social stigma for the children
