Concept information
Preferred term
incest
Definition
- Incest, sexual intercourse between closely related individuals, has been a taboo in most societies, primitive and modern. The concept of what constitutes close relatives, however, is not uniform among societies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Incest]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/incest
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