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Those of you involved in the “Radical Feminists Attack Warren Farrell”
thread might be interested in an anecdote about “positive incest” passed
on by sex researcher Paul Okami. It is about a woman who enjoyed sex
with her uncle thoughout her childhood and never realized that anything
was unusual until she went away to school. What disturbed her then was
not what her uncle had done, but the attitude of her teachers and
psychiatrists. They assumed she must have been traumatized and
disgusted and therefore in need of very special help.
What is relevant to this discussion is that the source of the anecdote
was feminist Germaine Greer, one of modern feminism’s founding mothers,
and the reason Greer related the anecdote was not to condemn incest but
the prudery which insisted that the girl must have necessarily been
traumatized by the experience. The girl in question was a school friend
of Greer’s.
Okami, who is a member of the Department of Psychology at UCLA, also
reports that in the period 1965-75 a “sex positive attitude” had
replaced the “sex negative attitude” which had prevailed in sex research
and it was not unusual for researchers to ask about whether incestuous
incidents might be considered a positive experience by the victim. It
was in the context of these times that Warren Farrell began his own
investigations. But, as Okami reports, the times changed very rapidly
with the rise to influence of “new researchers” who were mostly
“feminists” and “victimologists” and it was this group that made
investigations into positive incest reprehensible. It was their
position that incestuous sex must necessarily be traumatizing because it
imposed the power of an older male on a younger female. Incidentally,
Okami notes that the “sex negative” attitude of the new researchers
applied only to heterosexual relations. They appeared to have no
problem with homosexual relations, incestuous or otherwise.
Frank S. Zepezauer
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