Many primates are known to practice incest, and female greater horseshoe bats share sex partners with their moms.
Among the more credulous, Christians were thought to use black magic in pursuit of revolutionary aims, and to practice incest and cannibalism.
WASHINGTON -- A North Carolina lawmaker tried to convince his colleagues Tuesday that if they want to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, they're going to be protecting people who practice incest, bestiality and pedophilia as well.
They descended from Ptolemy I, a general who had served with Alexander the Great in his conquest of Egypt, and they had practiced sibling incest for some three hundred years by the time their last dynast was born.
A self-described anarchist, Baker has been categorized as a writer of transgressional fiction, in that his novels are frequently populated by sociopathic, nihilistic characters who engage in taboo behaviors such as heavy drug use, incest, necrophilia and other practices; and often commit acts of extreme, surrealistic violence.
The First Temple, built by King Solomon and destroyed by the Babylonians, was, according to the Talmud, destroyed because the Israelites practiced idolatry, rape, incest, and murder.
The Egyptian practice of incest among royals was adopted by her Macedonian forebears, who had ruled Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great.
The purity-defilement contrast taps the emotion of disgust that is triggered by potential disease vectors like bodily effluvia, decaying flesh and unconventional forms of meat, and by risky sexual practices like incest.
George R. R. Martin, author of the "Song of Ice and Fire" novels from which "Game of Thrones" is adapted, said his books, set in a medieval period on a fictional continent called Westeros, were alluding to the historical practice of incest in the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt and the European monarchies of more recent centuries, which believed that it kept their bloodlines pure.
