anti-incest

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1. Opposed to incest.

   Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.

   2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be

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   The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements […]

   1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys

   Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).

   2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449