A judge in Australia has been criticized after saying incest may no longer be a taboo and that the community may now accept consensual sex between adult siblings, the Telegraph (British) website reports today (July 10, 2014).
Judge Garry Neilson -- from the district court in the state of New South Wales -- likened incest to homosexuality, which was once regarded as criminal and "unnatural" but is now widely accepted by society.
He said incest was now only a crime because it may lead to abnormalities in offspring, but this rationale was increasingly irrelevant because of the availability of contraception and the increasing acceptance of abortion.
Judge Neilson made the comments during the trial of a brother charged with raping his younger sister. The man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his sister when she was 10 or 11 years old in 1973 or 1974, but has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to sex they had in 1981, when she was 18 and he was 26. "By that stage they are both mature adults," the judge said.
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