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reasonemotion wrote:the only way to be happy is to love and until you do your life will flash by

reasonemotion wrote:show me the stats to prove it.....

The problems with incest are staggeringly over exaggerated.

reasonemotion wrote:

The problems with incest are staggeringly over exaggerated.

Please go no further. Take the time to view "Savage Grace" brilliantly acted true story.

Julianne Moore is Barbara Daly and Eddie Redmayne plays the beautiful son Tony.
It is a sensational, lurid story: erotic and repulsive by overlapping turn. And it's pulp fact. Barbara Daly was the would-be actress, artist and social alpinist who in postwar New York married wealthy Brooks Baekeland, a travel writer and heir to the Bakelite fortune. Her drinking, her propensity for making a scene in public, and her weakness for pseudo-bohemian adulterous flings evidently made the marriage a living hell. She could find a smothering intimacy only with her gay son, Tony Daly. Mother, father and son created a dysfunctional love triangle which ended in violence and bloodshed.

reasonemotion wrote:3points.
1) Mother and a homsexual son relationship has nothing to do with the genetic problems of "incest"
2) This film has nothing to do with incest - unless they fucked.
3) This is one of two films that I actually got out of my seat and left the cinema before the end.

Since, you left the cinema before the end you are not qualified to give an educated opinion.

No so. I don't have to sit through the whole film to know it was not relevant to the point that you rebutted.

The mother and son did have a sexual relationship.

And what of the child they produced?

I do know what incest means, and I wonder why you resort to crude descriptions when you are feeling "superior".
The description of the film I inserted was far more articulate than I could have given, as the film affected me so much, I chose that review and it was word for word and easily traced, which you did. I had no intention of disguising that fact. The seriousness of your statement was my main objective to quell the casual attitude you adopted towards incest.

I took a scientific stance not a casual one.

CW, you are like a tiger in the trees now ready to leap out (quote from The Joy Luck Club (1993) You are a man, no more no less. Get used to it and stop thinking you are omnipotent.

Methinks she doth protest too much. You still have not pointed out from your one paultry anecdote why you think any of this is relevant.

reasonemotion wrote:The mother and son did have a sexual relationship.

And what of the child they produced?


Huh?

Are we talking about the same film. At what point did you leave the cinema and may I ask why you did? I am beginning to have serious doubts that you did in fact see the film.

The problems with incest are staggeringly over exaggerated.
Anthropologically the prohibition on incest is to do with exogamy, and nothing to do with genetic abnormalities.
99%+ of brother sister couplings produce sound progeny. Problems, where present, can emerge if this is done too much. But the actual mating of close relatives does not of itself introduce faulty genes.

reasonemotion wrote:This is one of two films that I actually got out of my seat and left the cinema before the end.


I rest my case.

chaz wyman wrote: Pathetic.
Unlike you I base my knowledge of incest on more than one poorly acted film.