The sexual relation of a man with his wife's sister though socially disapproved is not incestous. |
The question whether Miller's patient in the above example had experienced incestous acts in reality or merely had fantasies about them is not a crucial issue. |
I gave them both to understand that it was a case of incestous attachment on both sides, and advised them to live apart. |
It should be noted here that whereas a Yanu Bangni would consider it an incestous union for a man to marry a woman of his clan, the Tangins are not so strict in this respect. |
This does not offer a new interpretation of Ford's macabre drama of incestous love, in which Giovanni's passion for his sister Annabella ruins both their lives. |
Not only in myth, but in actual primitive and ancient societies as well can be found numerous examples of what from modern common sense would be clearly viewed as incestous behavior. |