Does anyone find this disgusting?
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adjustedforinflation — 16 years ago(May 18, 2009 12:23 AM)
This is hysterical. I wondered when this would be brought up.
The writers kept it so that "technically" he wasn't engaging in incest, even in a roundabout way.
With that said, notice how when Brantley realizes who she is, her first response is "Auntie Vera?" and laughs hysterically. After that encounter, she still pursues him with an intense libido, both in Howard's office, then in kissing Brantley behind a doorway at their party. The point being, I think was to show the comedic elements of how a midwestern, boy-next-door, fish out of water pup like Brantley could get caught up in the dormant sexual yearnings of a gorgeous sophisticated metropolitan woman like Vera, and how their "incest" didn't even phase her, but instead his innocence actually turned her on.
I also find it hysterical how several men on this board wouldn't have minded "getting it on" with their "attractive aunts" when the men were teenagers. Me personally? No, lol. But I have witnessed over the years how some young men are with an older woman and I wonder if it's a relative (from the way they relate) and the "closeness" and "intimacy" between them seems to near borderline inappropriate. Innocent enough stuff to a degree, but you've gotta wonder. -
corrupt200 — 20 years ago(September 14, 2005 09:16 PM)
They were not related by DNA.
I freaked out the simalr way in the Very Brady Sequel, when Marcia and Greg were kissing on the lipsthen my dad said stepsiblings are legally allowed to engage in sexual relations since they don't have common DNA. But most stepsibling don't. -
bikebryan — 19 years ago(April 29, 2006 10:28 PM)
If step-siblings shagged, it would be perfectly legal as long as they were both consenting, of-age adults. There is no "law" preventing ANY two adults from havine sexual relations. Get over that.
It may make your skin crawl, and if too closely related, negative genes are often reinforced, but it is NOT illegal. Period. -
ceebeegee — 19 years ago(January 22, 2007 07:34 AM)
Agreed.
There's a difference between having sex, and marrying. There is no law preventing step-siblings from either having sex or getting marriedin fact I know of a married couple who are also step-siblings (their parents married when both were adults).
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chronicbliss2 — 17 years ago(April 20, 2008 11:07 AM)
People have been arrested for having sex with siblings and/or parents, even adults with no history of being abused or of abusing. Check it out:
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garlicbreath — 20 years ago(July 31, 2005 01:53 AM)
They were really distant relatives (as proven by what Brantley's mum said before he left, about the dead cousin's blah blah thing) and they certainly weren't blood relatives. It's not too disgusting a thing, seeing as in normal villages/towns/communities, people are all going to be rather related. marrying the wife of your third cousin several times removed's son doesn't sound that terrible.
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mel_anie_98 — 20 years ago(August 30, 2005 08:38 AM)
If you only look at it from the perspective that he called her "Aunt" then yes, it's disgusting. But if you look at it the way it really is then he didn't sleep with his aunt.
First of all, relatively speaking she's not his aunt, but rather a cousin. Plus, neither her nor Howard were related by blood and technically not even legally. His mother's cousin Helen married Howard's half-sister's nephew. If the nephew came from the parent of Howard's sister that wasn't his parent, then technically Brantly's family wasn't even related by blood. That's more of an adopted family, where you and the rest of society consider you family (legal or otherwise) when in fact no ties (legal or blood) exists.
The fact that he called him "Uncle" Howard wasn't accurate. That's a relationship that would only exist on any level if he was a sib of one of his parents, which he wasn't. If anything he was cousin, but technically he wasn't even that.
So no, him sleeping with Vera wasn't disgusting.
