I Loves Me My Snasty BBC TV

They run the best "snasty" documentaries.

I knew the BBC was obsessed with transgenders of all ages and transitioning direction, but they took me aback when they ran a docu on brothers and sisters who were living as husband and wife.

They had a British brother who pined (unsuccessfully) for his sister and some Americans who have been happily mated for some time, and a German brother and sister who cohabited and have four children together.

The German couple were the only ones facing dire legal consequences, because the children were proof that they had been violating incest laws.

Other couples might have been living in violation of laws, but as they said to the interviewer, "Prove it."

I believe most of these couples had been introduced later in life, i.e. had not grown up in a household together where the incest tabu would most likely have set boundaries more firmly in place.

The couples seemed genuinely happy, with the exception of the legally beset German couple.

The husband had served several stints in jail as a result, and much worse: the children had been taken from them and placed with foster families.

They had one child remaining, but by the end of the documentary that girl (who was already clearly bonded with her parents) was forcibly taken too. And the father was sent back to jail.

Neighbors of this couple had often accosted them on their outings to the public park, and neighbors in their apartment building would open their doors to scream obscenities at them when they passed down the hall with their children.

The lawyer who represented the couple argued that the law was unconstitutional, as the only logic that it rested upon was the idea that inbreeding causing birth defects (two of their four children did indeed have birth defects) and that if this were the rationale, then the law would need to be expanded to forbid coupling wherein this same situation could occur. In other words, he was trying to get it struck down as an unfair and discriminatory law.

I felt deeply sorry for them. They were clearly two people in love. Having children was foolhardy on their parts. Perhaps they didn't know the likelihood of birth defects, which is very high with kinship that close.

Watching the German neighbors attacking them just reminded me how much we are all monkeys really. It was classic primate behavior.

The documentary tried to promote the idea that there is such a thing as GSA, if I'm remembering correctly. I believe that's "genetic sexual attraction." The idea is that attraction is more likely because you're seeing somebody who resembles yourself so much.

Perhaps GSA explains the marriages of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and the former Van Halens (because in both cases I think the males married female versions of themselves). So even if they didn't fuck their sisters, I still think they're both sisterfuckers to a degree.

I guess those of us who had hateful siblings were lucky. We didn't have to worry about any GSA because we were too busy wishing for their untimely deaths to notice if they were hot or not. I think there's a little Stewie Griffin in all of us...it's not always the mother we're hoping to off though.

I have to admit I thought the one brother and sister couple were sort of hot. You know you would watch it if someone showed you the video. And then you'd probably be like "That's it?...that's all?" Because it isn't like they have invented any new sex acts or anything, right? Probably they're boring.

The Ancient Egyptians did it. I'm sure many other cultures did too. Sisterfucking, I mean.

Oh, they had a mother and son couple too. They too had been separated for a long time. She had had him when she was fourteen. They were the most "poetic" in their description of their love and how it felt. They were also the only ones in shadow, for their own safety.

Oh, monkeys are all looking for that terry cloth mother, as in that famous experiment.

I remember the playground chant, "Incest is best. Put your sister to the test."

I suppose I should say something morally judgmental here, to prove I have ethical standards.

Incest is bad, m'kay.

That work?

Okay, if I can't make a moral argument, I'll make a practical one!

All I can say is, if you think your mother is nagging now, just wait until you "put the blocks to her" dude.

I mean if you think she's needy, you have no idea how I'm sure it would get after that.

Is it really worth it just to high-five your Dad?

And from a marketing point of view, it's rarely a good idea to move back into a piece of real estate you have vacated.

I mean, who does that?

Just because you know the floor plan? That's not a great selling point.