/siberia/ - Off-topic

Do you know much about the history of incest?

I have been studying the topic for quite a while, specifically looking at the history of incest within England and within literature, and came to the conclusion that the incest prohibition laws we see in modern England are a precipitaory downproduct of the victorian housing crisis, in which large destitute families would often be stuck under one roof, with family members often sharing beds, and due to the tradition of 'sisterwives' I.E., marrying your dead wife's sister, incest became somewhat of an epidemic – amongst the poor. I say amongst the poor because the rich were doing it flagrantly and without concern for some time. Incest was a common topic and romanticised in 1600s-1800s literature, in fact a cousin marriage was the 'happy end' of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (good book btw).

But ofc, when the poors started doing it, it became 'disgusting and dirty'. I think it's kind of romantic though personally.