Many people were rightly horrified this week as Cosmo set out to romanticize incest. The article, “This Is What It’s Like To Fall In Love With Your Brother,” was originally published a little while ago but got renewed attention over the past few days when Cosmo tweeted it.
The piece tells the story of Melissa and Brian, long-lost siblings who connected as adults and began a sexual relationship almost immediately. Brian left his wife to be with his sister. Melissa remains with her husband as she has sex with her brother. The incestuous lovebirds say they have a “connection.” They love each other, and, as we know, love is love is love. They insist that what they’re doing isn’t incest; rather, it’s an expression of something called “Genetic Sexual Attraction.” There is a whole “community” of GSA folks, and, as we’ve learned, once people have organized around a certain form of sexual deviance and called it a “community,” normalization is basically complete.
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