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incest
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incest /in·cest/ (in´sest?) sexual activity between persons so closely related that marriage between them is legally or culturally prohibited.
in·cest (nsst)
n.
1. Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
2. The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.
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One must then also exclude from the kingdom of God today all who are immoral (or prostitutes or engaged in incestual relationships), all idolaters, adulterers, thieves, greedy persons, drunkards, revilers, and robbers.
No kingdom of God for softies? or, what was Paul really saying? 1 ... by Elliott, John H. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
La Cienaga chronicles the exploits of a couple of families on vacation and manages to evoke a mood -- in this case a kind of humid claustrophobia mixed with a strong undertone of incestual sexual tension -- better than any film I saw.
Berlin International Film Festival by Vermee, Jack / Take One
In1931, psychoanalyst Ernest Jones suggested that the repeated intrusion of these fearful dreams into sleep is related to an "anxiety neurosis" and massively repressed incestual wishes.
The fragile, creative side of nightmares by Bower, Bruce / Science News
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