Citation

Abdulkarim AA, Tunde-Ayinmode MF. West Afr. J. Med. 2010; 29(6): 432-433.

Affiliation

Department of Paediatrics, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State, Nigeria. Email: aishaakarim@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, West African College of Physicians and West African College of Surgeons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21465455

Abstract

Incest is sexual intercourse between those who are too closely related especially within a nuclear family, that marriage is prohibited between them In Old English it was known as sibbleger (sibb 'kinship' +leger 'to lie') and the word incest did not appear in use until 12th century. There is documentation of incest in ancient literature and the religious books. Lot's two daughters are said to have had sexual relations with their father in the Bible Genesis, 19: 33- 35. The Holy Quran spells out the criterion for marriage and prohibition of it between certain family members; Hinduism has provisions for the avoidance of incest among its followers. Which relationships constitute incest may vary from society to society, but father-son-daughter, and mother-son-daughter sexual relations appear to be generally agreed on as being incestuous. The term intra-familial child sexual abuse refers to incest involving a minor whether consensual or nonconsensual. Sadism refers to sexual excitement...

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