Is it incest if you have sex with your cousin?

Answer 1

Yes. And in some states, it's a felony offense: you can land in jail.

Answer 2

Very ackward at the family picnic, in the old country they did not have a problem with this, there were a lot of birth defects and I remember one family I knew, the kids had the same last name and maiden name and the four boys were crazy in the head, one really dumb but the others somewhat normal
A bad idea that's why it became illegal in a lot of places and why they take blood for a marriage certificate
Yes its incest

Answer 3

Generally incest only applies if it is a blood realative, and blood usually can only be traced within immediate familes....but seriously....Your cousin? There has got to be somebody else in the world you can have sex with that you don't meet at the family reunion...

Answer 4

No, not in the eyes of the law in Britain anyway, general people in British society might take the piss out of you a bit but the law here says its OK, sexual activity with any other family member is however classed as incest and against the law. x

Answer 5

Wanna hear something wierd?

Two brothers from Family A married 2 sisters from Family B.

Now the son from Family A will marriy the daughter from Family B.

I actually know these people! I tried to tell them that it's just like brother marrying sister, but they don't care. And they don't even live in West Virginia.

Answer 6

Isnt your cousin considered family, isn't having sex with a family member considered incenst?
YES, it is incest

Answer 7

If you are forbidden by the law where you live to marry your cousin, or if your religious beliefs forbid it, than it's incest.

Answer 8

As far as the law is concerned, you can not marry your first cousin but you can your second. Which is it? You judge. I had a horrible crush on my first cousin, I denied it and went on with my life because it just didn't feel right.

Answer 9

Depends on what state are you in. Read through below.

In most of the Western world incest generally refers to forbidden sexual relations within the family. However, definitions of family vary. Within the United States, marriage between (first) cousins is illegal in some states, but not in others, and sociologists have classified marriage laws in the United States into two categories: One, used mainly in southern states, in which the definitions of incest are taken from the Bible, and which frowns upon marriage within one's lineage but less so on one's blood relatives, and another group which frowns more on marriage between blood relatives (such as cousins), but less on one's lineage.

Twenty-four states prohibit marriages between first cousins, and another seven permit them only under special circumstances. Utah, for example, permits first cousins to marry only provided both spouses are over age 65, or at least 55 with evidence of sterility. North Carolina permits first cousins to marry unless they are "double first cousins" (cousins through more than one line). Maine permits first cousins to marry only upon presentation of a certificate of genetic counseling. The remaining nineteen states and the District of Columbia permit first-cousin marriages without restriction.

But despite these developments, I really think that you're indulging in something distasteful with negative repercussions for both of you. Reflect on your situation. The world is a big place for you to choose from, there's somebody out there for you who isn't your cousin or relative.

Answer 10

Who wants to have sex with their cousin?

Answer 11

First cousins is the limit of what's good for you. But second cousins is okay.