(Berlin) I spent over 10 years living in Germany (Osnabruck, Hanover and Düsseldorf). Love the country, love the people, love the way of life. However, I feel that the Germans are starting to walk down the road of political correctness which has made the UK a laughing joke.
Today I came across the story that Germany’s national ethics council has called for an end to the criminalisation of incest between siblings after examining the case of a man who had four children with his sister. Yes, you read that right. They wish to legalise the right for blood members of the same family to get it together and live happily ever after.
Sexual relations between siblings or between parents and their children are forbidden under section 173 of the German criminal code and offenders can face years in prison. Yet the German Ethics Council has now recommended the section be repealed, arguing that the risk of disability in children is not enough to warrant the law and de-criminalising incest would not remove the huge social taboo around it.
Excuse me, did I read that right?
Today I came across the story that Germany’s national ethics council has called for an end to the criminalisation of incest between siblings after examining the case of a man who had four children with his sister. Yes, you read that right. They wish to legalise the right for blood members of the same family to get it together and live happily ever after.
Sexual relations between siblings or between parents and their children are forbidden under section 173 of the German criminal code and offenders can face years in prison. Yet the German Ethics Council has now recommended the section be repealed, arguing that the risk of disability in children is not enough to warrant the law and de-criminalising incest would not remove the huge social taboo around it.
Excuse me, did I read that right?
That the risk of disability in children is not enough to warrant the law and de-criminalising incest would not remove the huge social taboo around it.And to think we in the West bash Pakistani Muslims for marrying their cousins, and yet here we are (well, in Germany at least) trying to outdo people we love to malign for their medieval practices.
