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A 12 page overview of incest, its causes and impacts. The author defines incest, explores the underlying motivations, and assesses its long term psychological impact on children. Considerable attention is paid to the link between incestual sexual abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Bibliography lists 17 sources.
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has a number of manifestations. The precise definition of incest involves sexual relations between two closely related individual. While incestuous relationships can occur between adults, the more disturbing
form of incest involves children that are being sexually molested by a relative. Although the literature makes a distinction between the motivations found in incestual cases of child molestation
and nonincestual cases, the impacts of each can be catastrophic. These impacts include a variety of psychological manifestations, some of the most concerning of which are Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder and associated eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
Introduction Sexual improprieties come in a number of forms. One of the most misunderstood of these sexual improprieties is
incest. By strict definition incest is the sexual relationship that occurs between two closely related individuals. Numerous cultures prohibit the marriage of individuals who are first cousins or
closer in their familial relationships. The reasons for this prohibition are many and varied. Biologically the reasons for prohibiting the marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding,
or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the fact that the risks of inheriting genetically associated diseases or suffering from some sort of genetic disability is increased
in the children which are produced by the marriages of close relationships. There are numerous social reasons for the prohibition of incest as well. One of the more
obvious of these is to prevent the sexual molestation of children by those that are related to them. As a result of the
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