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One in six families have been impacted by INCEST, shocking report claims.
Nearly one in six families have been impacted by incest, according to a shocking new analysis.
The taboo subject is becoming increasingly discussed as at-home DNA tests from companies like Ancestry and 23&me become more common, revealing uncomfortable truths about family connections.
It has previously been estimated that as few as as 2 percent of Americans had experienced sexual contact with a family member.
But a review of hundreds of studies by a sexual health company earlier this month estimated that 15 percent of US families have had an 'incest event.'
Events of incest often involve sexual abuse against a child and the majority are girls - one in five girls have been victims of incest compared with one in 14 boys.
A quarter of cases involve two people not biologically related - such as a stepfather and stepdaughter - but the remainder are between two blood relatives.
Incest is still legal to some extent in 19 states, where it is legal for first cousins to marry. Most of the states fall on the coasts and in the South.
New data coming to light suggests that sex among even closer relations is fairly common.
BedBible, an intimacy and sexual health company, conducted an analysis of more than 290 published peer-reviewed articles including data from more than 11 million people spanning from 1980 to 2023.
In that time, 10 to 15 percent of families had incest events in their family trees.
The most frequent type of incest is father-daughter incest (34.8% of all incest cases is father-daughter; 23.1% is brother-sister; 6.1% is mother-son).
Just 20 percent of incest victims report the crime to law enforcement, according to the report.
Nearly half of all children under 18 who are raped, have been raped by someone in their own family.
And 71 percent of all who experienced incest were under 18 when it happened the first time.
The report added that over 50 percent of pornography on PornHub have an incestuous angle (title, video theme, or ‘characters played’).
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