3 Distribution of Attitudes -5.2.2 Incestophobia and Ciaophobia

Contents

1 Origin of the term
2 Classification
2.1 Institutionalized incestophobia
2.1.1 Religious attitudes
2.1.1.1 Christianity and the Bible
2.1.1.2 Islam and sharia
2.1.2 State-sponsored incestophobia
2.1.2.1 Past governments
2.1.2.2 Current governments
2.2 Internalized incestophobia
2.3 Social incestophobia
3 Distribution of attitudes
3.1 The horrific seven costs of incestophobia
4 Efforts to combat incestophobia
5 Criticism of meaning and purpose
5.1 Distinctions and proposed alternatives
5.2 Opposition to the term "incestophobia"
5.2.1 Non-neutral phrasing
5.2.2 "Incestophobia" and "Ciaophobia”
6 See also ‘A test for incestophobia’
7 References
8 External links
Distribution of attitudes
Further information: Societal attitudes toward adult consensual incest-oriented sexuality
Incestophobes in New Jersey and France recently tried to make l CIAO illegal.
CIAO has been legal in France since 1810, but legislators who tried to put incest back onto the legal books, failed to make adult consensual incest illegal.
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/French++incest/157cc03a868d5d2e
” Mrs Marie-Louise Fort and some of her fellow deputies wished, having collected the testimony of victims of incest and heard a large number of professionals

involved in the care of these victims, propose to Parliament a text to specifically register incest in our criminal code.”
“On 27 January 2010, France reinstated laws against incest. The new law, however, defines incest as rape or sexual abuse on a minor "by a relative or any other

person having lawful or de facto authority over the victim".[42] Incest between consenting adults is not prohibited.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_regarding_incest#France.2C_Belgium_and_Luxembourg

American Democrats and Republicans have differing attitudes towards CIAO people.
In New Jersey and Rhode Island CIAO is not illegal but Mary Pat Angelini, an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General

Assembly from January 8, 2008 to January 12, 2016, attempted to re-criminalise incest in her state.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922059/New-Jersey-legislators-rush-ban-incest-anonymous-father-daughter-reveal-plans-marry-children.html

Between January 2010 and November 2014, many individuals around the world have been jailed due to their real or perceived CIAO sexual orientation; some

have been beaten and killed.

In the past under Jewish law CIAO people were burned (Sreifah) as a punishment, and cruel punishment involved the pouring of molten lead into the mouth of

people convicted of incest.
Thus the fear and paranoia, incestophobic neurosis about the idea of being caught for such an offense must have been very great. While CIAO is not illegal in

modern nuclear and scientific Israel, and at least 39 other countries, many countries have over the centuries were influenced by the Judeo Christian Islamic faiths,

and introduced harsh laws against incest accordingly. But some countries have modernized more than others, and some still are dominated by large antiquated

religious groups which hold check over the instruments of power.

As with homophobia, fear of adult consensual incest-oriented sexuality and of CIAO people is not evenly distributed throughout each society or state but is more

or less pronounced according to age, ethnicity, geographic location, race, sex, social class, education, partisan identification and religious status.[69] According to

UK HIV/AIDS charity AVERT, religious views, lack of homosexual feelings or experiences, and lack of interaction with gay people are strongly associated with

such views.[70] The same is true for CIAO people: religious views, lack of Ciao sexual feelings or experiences, and lack of interaction with CIAO people are

strongly associated with such incestophobic views.[

The anxiety of heterosexual individuals (particularly adolescents whose construction of heterosexual masculinity is based in part on not being seen as incestuous ( or

gay) that others may identify them as CIAO[71][72] has also been identified as an example of incestophobia.[73] The taunting of boys seen as eccentric (and who

are not usually gay) is said to be endemic in rural and suburban American schools, and has been associated with risk-taking behaviour and outbursts of violence

(such as a spate of school shootings) by boys seeking revenge or trying to assert their masculinity.[74] while having to repress their gay and or CIAO

orientations…. Incestophobic bullying is probably quite common in schools in the United Kingdom.[75], a country that regularly jails people for being in adult

consensual relationships , but where children are regularly sexually abused by family members and nothing is done, because of incestophobic taboos against

discussion of sex, including sexual abuse of minors) encourages ignorance and silence, so that most children remain disempowered and fearful of what will happen

if they report an incident of sexual abuse to the police or other authorities.
In some cases, the works of authors who merely have the word "Gay" in their name (Gay Talese, Peter Gay) or works about things also contain the name (Enola

Gay) have been destroyed because of a perceived pro-homosexual bias. [76]
In the United States, attitudes about people who are homosexual may vary on the basis of partisan identification. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to

have negative attitudes about people who are CIAO and lesbian, according to surveys conducted by the National Election Studies from 2000 through 2004. This

disparity is shown in the graph on the right, which is from a book published in 2008 by Joseph Fried. The tendency of Republicans to view CIAO and lesbian

people negatively could be based on incestophobia, religious beliefs, or conservatism with respect to the traditional family.[77]

incestophobia also varies by region; statistics show that the Southern United States has more reports of anti-gay prejudice than any other region in the US.[78]
To re-phrase a comment about homosexuality in a 1998 address by author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King )"(incestophobia) is like racism and

anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood."[79] Negative

feelings towards (CIAO) people are also associated with other discriminatory behaviours.[80] According to the study, hatred of (CIAO) people, anti-Semitism,

and racism are "likely companions."[80] Baker hypothesized "maybe it's a matter of power and looking down on all you think are at the bottom."[80] A study

performed in 2007 in the UK for the charity Stonewall reports that up to 90 percent of the population support anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals and

lesbian people.[81]
Social constructs and culture can perpetuate incestophobic attitudes. Such cultural sources in the black community include:

Music and music videos[82][83][84]
Churches [85][86][87]
Sources of incestophobia in the white community include:
The Arts
Films and literature that project negative CIAO stereotypes.[88]
Churches[89]
Professional sports in many countries involves homophobic and incestophobic expressions by star athletes and by fans.
However, while the major professional sports regard the LGBT community as an important marketing base, and thus oppose homophobia , they do not oppose

incestophobia, or advocate tolerance towards CIAO people.
3.1 The horrific seven costs of incestophobia
Jane Dow's Consanguinamory website (https://consanguinamory.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/the-horrific-seven-costs-of-incestophobia/ lists the ‘horrific seven

costs of incestophobia:’
In brief, Jane Dow’s 7 major costs of incestophobia are:
(1) Financial costs to governments of police detection, apprehension of suspects, prosecution, legal defence (where defendants cannot afford their own council)

incarceration, and rehabilitation, and social welfare costs after the criminals have been made unemployable and homeless. Loss of taxes and productivity to the

state due to victims of incestophobia being made unemployable.
(2) Costs of victim of incestophobia through loss of job, career, income, investments (loss of mortgage properties through lost inability to keep up repayments) etc.
(3) Loss of family and friendships do to stigma of criminal record for ‘sex crimes’. High psychiatric costs to the state for loss of enjoyment of life, due to resulting

social isolation and loneliness.
(4) Loss of children from relationship and the psychological cost they pay from being taken being away from parents and put in foster homes, orphanages, state

care. (If state is the carer, the quality of care is so low, and the abuse of children in state care so common that children are worse usually off. A high percentage

children placed in state care end up in prison.)
(5) Loss of safety and physical and security for the victim and family members of incestophobia when their privacy is lost due to publicity of open court case and

their pictures and names are placed in the newspapers. They may be physically as well as verbally attacked.( cost to the state for treatment of medical and psychic

injuries).
(6) The cost (physical and mental) to the individual CIAO person where, because of laws against CIAO, they are afraid to report instances of domestic violence

from a partner to authorities for fear of being charged with incest and jailed.
(7) The cost to the nation in the form of shame and humiliation when the public finally realizes the error of its own and the state’s persecution (in their name) of

CIAO people as what it is - the great and harmful self-injury of society against itself, which benefits no one.

(Another potential cost to the state, ( after incest laws are overturned) may be large financial penalties when CIAO organizations successfully launch class action

suits retrospectively for compensation for injuries to CIAO people who were incarcerated (illegally detained) and denied their human rights.)
see Jane Dow's Consanguinamory website for more details https://consanguinamory.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/the-horrific-seven-costs-of-incestophobia/.
4 Efforts to combat incestophobia
At the present time Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, do not condemn laws that make consanguineous sexual relations between consenting adults a

crime. Since 1994, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has not ruled that such (incestophobic) laws violate the right to privacy that are guaranteed in the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (as it did in the case of homosexuality). As such, despite the

UN's inaction on this matter, countries that maintain such laws are clearly in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights.
In 2008, the Roman Catholic Church did not issue a statement which "urges States to do away with criminal penalties against CIAO persons." Whereas the UN

Assembly did call for an end of penalties against homosexuals in the world.[95] In March 2010, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a

recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, described by the Secretary General as the first legal

instrument in the world dealing specifically with one of the most long-lasting and difficult forms of discrimination to combat.[96] Arguably his could be interpreted as

a call to combat discrimination against CIAO people, since their sexual orientation towards consensual adult incest ( i.e. Consensual Incestuous Adult-

Oriented=CIAO).
To combat incestophobia, the CIAO community may need to use events such as CIAO pride parades (these have been held simultaneously but discreetly in close

proximity with LBGT parades, however for the most part, CIAO political activism (See CIAO pride) is conducted on-line for reasons of safety. Public CIAO

activism is criticized by some in the CIAO movement as counter-productive, as CIAO pride parades might be seen by some as being on the more "extreme" end

of the sexuality spectrum of fetish-based and gender-variant aspects of LGBT culture. However that is far from being the case. In fact CIAO people can be on any

place on the sexuality spectrum, from conservative to radical. The fear of CIAO pride and CIAO activism is yet another example of the persistence of

incestophobia existing among both heterosexuals and homosexuals, and paradoxically even among some CIAO people themselves.
One form of organized resistance to incestophobia could be the ‘International Day Against Incestophobia’ (or IDAI), to be celebrated on a day yet to be decided

by CIAO groups. Most likely such a celebration/s would be developed more safely in the 40 states and countries where CIAO is already legal.( Argentina,

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, People's Republic of China, Estonia, France, Georgia, India, Israel, Italy ( if no scandal is caused) Ivory Coast,

Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirghiz Republic, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands ,New Jersey (US)

Pakistan, Portugal, Rhode Island ((US), Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
In addition to public expression, legislation should be designed, controversially, to oppose incestophobic acts, ( such as hate speech, hate crimes,) and laws that

discriminate against people on the basis of their CIAO orientation. Successful preventative strategies against incestophobic prejudice and bullying in any location

need to include teaching pupils about historical figures who were CIAO, (such as Abraham and Sarah) or who suffered discrimination because of their CIAO

sexuality.(the list possibly includes George and Anne Boleyn).

Some argue that anti-CIAO prejudice is immoral and goes above and beyond the effects on that class of people. Now that homosexual marriage has been

accepted in most of the west, what Warren J. Blumenfeld argued about homophobia (that ‘it gains a dimension beyond itself, as a tool for extreme right-wing

conservatives and fundamentalist religious groups and as a restricting factor on gender-relations as to the weight associated with performing each role accordingly’)

might be said to be equally if not more true on incestophobia.
[101] To apply what Blumenfeld said about homophobia to incestophobia:
"(Incestophobic) bias causes young people to engage in sexual behaviour earlier in order to prove that they are conventional.” Anti-CIAO bias may have

contributed to the spread of the AIDS epidemic. ( since some people became conventionally sexually promiscuous or gay and got infected during gay sex rather

than be different and have a CIAO relationship with a family member who was more than likely not a carrier of HIV or other STDs.

Anti-CIAO bias prevents the ability of schools to create effective honest sexual education programs that would save children's lives and prevent STDs (sexually

transmitted diseases)." If someone is in a stable CIAO relationship they are less likely to engage in risky promiscuous behaviour with strangers at parties or in

public toilets.
Incestophobia could be reduced through exposure (learning about CIAO experiences), explanation (understanding the different challenges faced by CIAO

people), and experience (putting themselves in situations experienced by CIAO people by working alongside CIAO co-workers or volunteering at a CIAO

community centre).
5 Criticism of meaning and purpose
5.1 Distinctions and proposed alternatives
Researchers have proposed alternative terms to describe prejudice and discrimination against CIAO people. Some of these alternatives show more semantic

transparency while others do not include -phobia:

One alternative is ‘CIAOsexophobia’ (similar to homosexophobia.) consanguinamophobia
CIAOnegativity is based on the term CIAO-negativism, parallel to homo-negativism used by Hudson and Ricketts in a 1980 paper; they coined the term for their

research in order to avoid 'homophobia'. Like homophobia, incestophobia, may be regarded as being unscientific in its presumption of motivation.
Heterosexism refers to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favour of opposite-sex sexual orientation and relationships.[105] p. 13 It can

include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm[106] and therefore superior.
Sexual prejudice – Researcher at the University of California, Davis Gregory M. Herek preferred sexual prejudice as being descriptive, free of presumptions about

motivations, and lacking value judgments as to the irrationality or immorality of those so labelled. [107][108] He compared homophobia, Heterosexism, and sexual

prejudice, and, in preferring the third term, noted that homophobia was "probably more widely used and more often criticized." He also observed that "Its critics

note that homophobia implicitly suggests that antigay attitudes are best understood as an irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology

rather than a socially reinforced prejudice. In the same vein, 'Incestophobia' may also implicitly suggest that anti-CIAO attitudes are best understood as an

irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology rather than a socially reinforced prejudice.

5.2 Opposition to the term "incestophobia"
Studies of homophobic men found that “homophobic men seemed to have higher levels of measured arousal. This lead the researchers to hypothesize that the

homophobic group under-reported their arousal, giving some credence to the idea that homophobes are in denial or repressive of homosexual urges.”
http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/siowfa13/2013/10/if-homophobes-are-afraid-of-gays-they-sure-have-a-funny-way-of-showing-it.html
Testing incestophobes in a similar fashion to homophobes will very likely reveal that they are very likely in denial or repressive of their Oedipal sexual urges.
People and groups that are incestophobic are very likely to strongly object to the use of the term "incestophobia".[109][110][111]
An example of this might be the case where a petition to de-criminalise adult consensual incest was sent to the Public Petitions Committee of the Scottish

parliament, which could not accept that the committee members were incestophobic, but which proved they were by refusing to even discuss the well-argued

petition and rejected the petition out of hand in under two minutes.
http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/adultconsensualincest
5.2.1 Non-neutral phrasing
Use of incestophobia, incestophobic and incestophobe has been criticized as pejorative against ACI rights opponents.
Some behavioural scientists might argue that 'incestophobia' is usually used when somebody is making an pejorative evaluation of certain open and debatable value

positions, (anti CIAO) much like the former criminal charge or label of ' incest ' itself, arguing that the term may be used as an ad hominem argument against those

who advocate values or positions of which the user does not approve.
In 2012 the Associated Press (AP) Style Book was revised to advise against using non-clinical words with the suffix -phobia, in "political and social contexts." The

word incestophobia could suggest severe mental disorders, and could be substituted with "anti-CIAO" or similar phrasing. Incestophobia does not necessarily have

to be interpreted in a strict clinical sense, nor does the term 'homophobia.'
Some could say that calling someone an 'incestophobe' when they only have an aversion to incestuous practices themselves, and perhaps say that CIAO people

disgust them, may be inaccurate, because an incestophobe is someone with an abnormal fear of CIAO people.
But to others, an incestophobe is someone who is simply afraid of CIAO, or not attracted to it. And that is probably most people in an age of horror movies about

incest such the movie 'Psycho' and many others that portray CIAO relationships negatively. While not everyone is morbidly or pathologically afraid of CIAO

activities or people, some go about behaving badly towards these mostly harmless people.
Many such people are labouring under the misconceived notion that CIAO people are paedophiles who abuse children, which is a falsehood often encouraged by

the profit-driven media which thrives on creating and stirring up anger and fear in society in order to gain more attention and increase sales. As such, they are

victims of deceptions intentionally perpetrated by the media (religious organisations often own and or control newspapers). Calling these people 'incestophobic'

even if it was not their fault that they have become this way, is done, not to chastise them, but to inform and educate them of the fact that they have been

misinformed about CIAO people and they need to become better informed. The term therefore is not used abusively, but didactically.
Someone who hears themselves being described as incestophobic or as ‘that incestophobe’, may then have a chance to study themselves and become more aware

and find out if that is true, and possibly to change themselves. They might for instance find one of the many websites dedicated to informing people about CIAO

such as the Jane Dow website, and others.
(Notes: need list of CIAO websites)
Others say that 'labelling' people with the term 'incestophobe' is a political tactic designed to ' demonize' people (argument ad hominem) instead of engaging in fair

and open debate. As such, it is mere 'name calling' and a type of abuse which is the same as when people are 'objectified' and belittled, and de-humanised by

having insulting labels thrown at them. So far it seems to be that CIAO people are the ones who are really suffering the most abuse of this kind.. with the term

'mother f__ker' for example being hurled around as a term of abuse in many modern American (and copycat Australian) movies. 'The word has become something

of a catchphrase for actor Samuel L. Jackson, who frequently utters the word in his movies.[9] His use of the word helped him overcome a lifelong stuttering

problem.[10] Historically in India, the word 'Madarchodh' is used for Motherfucker, the word Madar being of Persian origin, as Madare Jendeh.[11
Wikipedia has a page on the term mother f__ker' which says the term originated in the USA, however, at the bottom of the page it refers to an India term which

came from Persia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherfucker
The urban dictionary states
Madarchod (HINDI)=Mother fucker(ENGLISH)
Most commonly/regularly used swear words by Indians/South-east
Asians. Categorized with similar incest swear words: bhenchod (sister fucker),betichod (daughter fucker)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=madarchod
A recent Australian ABC comedy show called ‘This is Littleton’ featured one scene where a yoga teacher greeted her students, referring to them collectively as

‘mother f__kers.’
(Perhaps the ABC is attempting to turn a highly offensive swear word from violent American police television shows into a meaningless expression of semi comic

‘friendly gratuitous abuse’ that is the kind of rough and tough bravado comic greeting between working class men (blokes in pubs in Australia, mimicking American

negro gangster talk) an excuse for a limited vocabulary and a lack of genuine comic writing ability and creativity.)

Some CIAO individuals may hold and express negative attitude towards 'normals' (including homosexuals and non-CIAO heterosexuals.) Their main fear of

'normals' is more likely to be caused by a fear of being persecuted arrested and jailed and possibly killed by them. CIAO people have a justifiable fear of extreme

persecution in many countries where CIAO people are regularly prosecuted and jailed. In some countries they are executed. Fear of jail and death is not an

extremely irrational fear for CIAO people to have, but incestophobes have no reason to fear CIAO people who are only interested in each other and not in

someone from another family. There never is any risk of a disease being spread around the world by CIAO people. Over 95% of children born with birth defects

are from "normals" so there is no reason for incestophobes to fear CIAO people because of the 'genetics' argument. In fact 'incestophobia' may be convenient tool
used by the establishment to distract people from the large number of preventable contributors towards birth defects and congenital diseases i.e. man-made

mutagenic substances from pollution, of all kinds of modern farm and industrial chemicals, plastics, nuclear radiation, having children later rather than early, alcohol,

cigarettes and other pharmaceuticals consumption.

Perhaps using the term ‘incest negativity’ when referring to anti-CIAO people might be preferred by some to the term ‘ incestophobia’ because it does not imply

extreme or irrational fear, but rather an aversion or dislike, however irrational or bigoted. Many people have a morbid fear of snakes even though they live in

countries where do not snakes exist because they were brainwashed by society and the media to hate and fear snakes. People can learn attitudes of hatred and

fear by osmosis, without the intervention at any time of reason, just as many grow up in a secular family celebrating Christmas each year, going to parties and

buying presents for each other but with no knowledge or interest in Christianity. Thus many people can tend to incestophobia and not know why. When confronted

they might just say ‘This is how I feel. It must be my gut instinct kicking in.’ Such people underestimate the power of nurture over nature. Some people are so well

indoctrinated by their small religious group that they have deep and morbid fear of doing anything that the group does not approve of. Thus those who were part of

the Puritan movement in the early American colony at Massachusetts taught their children that celebrating Christmas and the giving and receiving of Christmas cards

and gifts were satanic acts. These children surely would have been terrified to see someone dressed as Santa coming into their town. Making people have fears is

surely one of the important roles that religions play in the art of social control. For once people’s fears are known they are easy to manipulate. And when people

have insufficient fears, fears can to be manufactured.
Inculcating incestophobia into individuals or an entire society could be one way of encouraging them to break up from their existing family or nation system and to

amalgamate with larger outside groups, into an expanding family or foreign empire.
Miscegenation (or the inbreeding of different races) is the opposite extreme to incest, and anti-miscegenation laws were once quite common. Anti-miscegenation

laws, now a thing of the past, were based at least partly on xenophobia and racism, and people once thought that inter-racial marriage would lead to a diminution

of traditional cultures and values as well as the breaking up and loss of what had been thought to be classical European features.
Thus anti-miscegenation laws can be linked with racism and xenophobia and a fear of inter-marriage and a fear of dilution and contamination of the national gene

pool, and loss of/mutation of national knowledge and culture. Though inter-marriage is no longer illegal in most places, racism and xenophobia are on the rise and

may indicative a mass desire , or unconscious force for a cultural and genetic national re-consolidation after a long period of extremely disconcerting cultural social

and economic and technological change that has left many reeling in uncertainty about their continued national, cultural and personal identity, long and short term

job and even marriage and family prospects: i.e. their very survival; greater pressure for tighter control of immigration, (Brexit etc.) following on from the great

depression of 2008, and massive influxes of refugees in Europe from mainly the Middle East and rising economic inequality in Europe and the UK may have more

to do with a fear of national identity and sovereignty than real racism or xenophobia. Fear of excessive immigration destroying the social welfare system may be the

basic contributing factor and rationalisation for ‘racist’ immigration policies.
Ant-CIAO incest laws that criminalising CIAO People are not based on any legitimising facts, only bigotry, ignorance and incestophobia.
Anti-CIAOism / incestophobia seems to be part of a force that tends towards more rapid expansion of the existing gene pool rather its consolidation ; thus it might

go hand in hand with neo-Liberal economics and neo-imperialism and ideas of continual growth and consumption. It does not fit in with ideas of sustainable

development or conservationism.
More CIAO relationships would encourage reduced expansionism (fewer children born, and less need for new houses to be built) and greater consolidation of

cultural values within families and retaining gene pools rather than mixing them, whereas incestophobia encourages more rapid disintegration of the existing cultural

patterns, encourages more miscegenation and interbreeding that was an integral part of the accelerated colonisation of the planet and high immigration /emigration

as populations movements after WWII leading to rapid economic growth with associated pollution and the spreading of high energy consumption technologies and

high carbon fuel use and the acceleration of climate change factors such as high consumption, high population growth and accelerating globalization and the growth

of the ‘precariat.’
In this modern rapidly globalising world, ‘context’ is a slippery word and what is ‘normative’ is decidedly relative to what part of the world where the observer is

standing. Looking at the terms incest and incestophobia from a wider range of national points of view will give the inquirer a greater understanding of the true state

of affairs regarding this complicated and controversial subject.

6 See also ‘A test for incestophobia’
7 References
8 External links





Distribution of attitudes
Further information: Societal attitudes toward adult consensual incest-oriented sexuality
Incestophobes in New Jersey and France recently tried to make l CIAO illegal.
CIAO has been legal in France since 1810, but legislators who tried to put incest back onto the legal books, failed to make adult consensual incest illegal.
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/French++incest/157cc03a868d5d2e
” Mrs Marie-Louise Fort and some of her fellow deputies wished, having collected the testimony of victims of incest and heard a large number of professionals

involved in the care of these victims, propose to Parliament a text to specifically register incest in our criminal code.”
“On 27 January 2010, France reinstated laws against incest. The new law, however, defines incest as rape or sexual abuse on a minor "by a relative or any other

person having lawful or de facto authority over the victim".[42] Incest between consenting adults is not prohibited.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_regarding_incest#France.2C_Belgium_and_Luxembourg

American Democrats and Republicans have differing attitudes towards CIAO people.
In New Jersey and Rhode Island CIAO is not illegal but Mary Pat Angelini, an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General

Assembly from January 8, 2008 to January 12, 2016, attempted to re-criminalise incest in her state.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922059/New-Jersey-legislators-rush-ban-incest-anonymous-father-daughter-reveal-plans-marry-children.html

Between January 2010 and November 2014, many individuals around the world have been jailed due to their real or perceived CIAO sexual orientation; some

have been beaten and killed.

In the past under Jewish law CIAO people were burned (Sreifah) as a punishment, and cruel punishment involved the pouring of molten lead into the mouth of

people convicted of incest.
Thus the fear and paranoia, incestophobic neurosis about the idea of being caught for such an offense must have been very great. While CIAO is not illegal in

modern nuclear and scientific Israel, and at least 39 other countries, many countries have over the centuries were influenced by the Judeo Christian Islamic faiths,

and introduced harsh laws against incest accordingly. But some countries have modernized more than others, and some still are dominated by large antiquated

religious groups which hold check over the instruments of power.

As with homophobia, fear of adult consensual incest-oriented sexuality and of CIAO people is not evenly distributed throughout each society or state but is more

or less pronounced according to age, ethnicity, geographic location, race, sex, social class, education, partisan identification and religious status.[69] According to

UK HIV/AIDS charity AVERT, religious views, lack of homosexual feelings or experiences, and lack of interaction with gay people are strongly associated with

such views.[70] The same is true for CIAO people: religious views, lack of Ciao sexual feelings or experiences, and lack of interaction with CIAO people are

strongly associated with such incestophobic views.[

The anxiety of heterosexual individuals (particularly adolescents whose construction of heterosexual masculinity is based in part on not being seen as incestuous ( or

gay) that others may identify them as CIAO[71][72] has also been identified as an example of incestophobia.[73] The taunting of boys seen as eccentric (and who

are not usually gay) is said to be endemic in rural and suburban American schools, and has been associated with risk-taking behaviour and outbursts of violence

(such as a spate of school shootings) by boys seeking revenge or trying to assert their masculinity.[74] while having to repress their gay and or CIAO

orientations…. Incestophobic bullying is probably quite common in schools in the United Kingdom.[75], a country that regularly jails people for being in adult

consensual relationships , but where children are regularly sexually abused by family members and nothing is done, because of incestophobic taboos against

discussion of sex, including sexual abuse of minors) encourages ignorance and silence, so that most children remain disempowered and fearful of what will happen

if they report an incident of sexual abuse to the police or other authorities.
In some cases, the works of authors who merely have the word "Gay" in their name (Gay Talese, Peter Gay) or works about things also contain the name (Enola

Gay) have been destroyed because of a perceived pro-homosexual bias. [76]
In the United States, attitudes about people who are homosexual may vary on the basis of partisan identification. Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to

have negative attitudes about people who are CIAO and lesbian, according to surveys conducted by the National Election Studies from 2000 through 2004. This

disparity is shown in the graph on the right, which is from a book published in 2008 by Joseph Fried. The tendency of Republicans to view CIAO and lesbian

people negatively could be based on incestophobia, religious beliefs, or conservatism with respect to the traditional family.[77]

incestophobia also varies by region; statistics show that the Southern United States has more reports of anti-gay prejudice than any other region in the US.[78]
To re-phrase a comment about homosexuality in a 1998 address by author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King )"(incestophobia) is like racism and

anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood."[79] Negative

feelings towards (CIAO) people are also associated with other discriminatory behaviours.[80] According to the study, hatred of (CIAO) people, anti-Semitism,

and racism are "likely companions."[80] Baker hypothesized "maybe it's a matter of power and looking down on all you think are at the bottom."[80] A study

performed in 2007 in the UK for the charity Stonewall reports that up to 90 percent of the population support anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals and

lesbian people.[81]
Social constructs and culture can perpetuate incestophobic attitudes. Such cultural sources in the black community include:

Music and music videos[82][83][84]
Churches [85][86][87]
Sources of incestophobia in the white community include:
The Arts
Films and literature that project negative CIAO stereotypes.[88]
Churches[89]
Professional sports in many countries involves homophobic and incestophobic expressions by star athletes and by fans.
However, while the major professional sports regard the LGBT community as an important marketing base, and thus oppose homophobia , they do not oppose

incestophobia, or advocate tolerance towards CIAO people.
3.1 The horrific seven costs of incestophobia
Jane Dow's Consanguinamory website (https://consanguinamory.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/the-horrific-seven-costs-of-incestophobia/ lists the ‘horrific seven

costs of incestophobia:’
In brief, Jane Dow’s 7 major costs of incestophobia are:
(1) Financial costs to governments of police detection, apprehension of suspects, prosecution, legal defence (where defendants cannot afford their own council)

incarceration, and rehabilitation, and social welfare costs after the criminals have been made unemployable and homeless. Loss of taxes and productivity to the

state due to victims of incestophobia being made unemployable.
(2) Costs of victim of incestophobia through loss of job, career, income, investments (loss of mortgage properties through lost inability to keep up repayments) etc.
(3) Loss of family and friendships do to stigma of criminal record for ‘sex crimes’. High psychiatric costs to the state for loss of enjoyment of life, due to resulting

social isolation and loneliness.
(4) Loss of children from relationship and the psychological cost they pay from being taken being away from parents and put in foster homes, orphanages, state

care. (If state is the carer, the quality of care is so low, and the abuse of children in state care so common that children are worse usually off. A high percentage

children placed in state care end up in prison.)
(5) Loss of safety and physical and security for the victim and family members of incestophobia when their privacy is lost due to publicity of open court case and

their pictures and names are placed in the newspapers. They may be physically as well as verbally attacked.( cost to the state for treatment of medical and psychic

injuries).
(6) The cost (physical and mental) to the individual CIAO person where, because of laws against CIAO, they are afraid to report instances of domestic violence

from a partner to authorities for fear of being charged with incest and jailed.
(7) The cost to the nation in the form of shame and humiliation when the public finally realizes the error of its own and the state’s persecution (in their name) of

CIAO people as what it is - the great and harmful self-injury of society against itself, which benefits no one.

(Another potential cost to the state, ( after incest laws are overturned) may be large financial penalties when CIAO organizations successfully launch class action

suits retrospectively for compensation for injuries to CIAO people who were incarcerated (illegally detained) and denied their human rights.)
see Jane Dow's Consanguinamory website for more details https://consanguinamory.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/the-horrific-seven-costs-of-incestophobia/.
4 Efforts to combat incestophobia
At the present time Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, do not condemn laws that make consanguineous sexual relations between consenting adults a

crime. Since 1994, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has not ruled that such (incestophobic) laws violate the right to privacy that are guaranteed in the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (as it did in the case of homosexuality). As such, despite the

UN's inaction on this matter, countries that maintain such laws are clearly in breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights.
In 2008, the Roman Catholic Church did not issue a statement which "urges States to do away with criminal penalties against CIAO persons." Whereas the UN

Assembly did call for an end of penalties against homosexuals in the world.[95] In March 2010, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a

recommendation on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, described by the Secretary General as the first legal

instrument in the world dealing specifically with one of the most long-lasting and difficult forms of discrimination to combat.[96] Arguably his could be interpreted as

a call to combat discrimination against CIAO people, since their sexual orientation towards consensual adult incest ( i.e. Consensual Incestuous Adult-

Oriented=CIAO).
To combat incestophobia, the CIAO community may need to use events such as CIAO pride parades (these have been held simultaneously but discreetly in close

proximity with LBGT parades, however for the most part, CIAO political activism (See CIAO pride) is conducted on-line for reasons of safety. Public CIAO

activism is criticized by some in the CIAO movement as counter-productive, as CIAO pride parades might be seen by some as being on the more "extreme" end

of the sexuality spectrum of fetish-based and gender-variant aspects of LGBT culture. However that is far from being the case. In fact CIAO people can be on any

place on the sexuality spectrum, from conservative to radical. The fear of CIAO pride and CIAO activism is yet another example of the persistence of

incestophobia existing among both heterosexuals and homosexuals, and paradoxically even among some CIAO people themselves.
One form of organized resistance to incestophobia could be the ‘International Day Against Incestophobia’ (or IDAI), to be celebrated on a day yet to be decided

by CIAO groups. Most likely such a celebration/s would be developed more safely in the 40 states and countries where CIAO is already legal.( Argentina,

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, People's Republic of China, Estonia, France, Georgia, India, Israel, Italy ( if no scandal is caused) Ivory Coast,

Japan, Kazakhstan, Kirghiz Republic, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands ,New Jersey (US)

Pakistan, Portugal, Rhode Island ((US), Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
In addition to public expression, legislation should be designed, controversially, to oppose incestophobic acts, ( such as hate speech, hate crimes,) and laws that

discriminate against people on the basis of their CIAO orientation. Successful preventative strategies against incestophobic prejudice and bullying in any location

need to include teaching pupils about historical figures who were CIAO, (such as Abraham and Sarah) or who suffered discrimination because of their CIAO

sexuality.(the list possibly includes George and Anne Boleyn).

Some argue that anti-CIAO prejudice is immoral and goes above and beyond the effects on that class of people. Now that homosexual marriage has been

accepted in most of the west, what Warren J. Blumenfeld argued about homophobia (that ‘it gains a dimension beyond itself, as a tool for extreme right-wing

conservatives and fundamentalist religious groups and as a restricting factor on gender-relations as to the weight associated with performing each role accordingly’)

might be said to be equally if not more true on incestophobia.
[101] To apply what Blumenfeld said about homophobia to incestophobia:
"(Incestophobic) bias causes young people to engage in sexual behaviour earlier in order to prove that they are conventional.” Anti-CIAO bias may have

contributed to the spread of the AIDS epidemic. ( since some people became conventionally sexually promiscuous or gay and got infected during gay sex rather

than be different and have a CIAO relationship with a family member who was more than likely not a carrier of HIV or other STDs.

Anti-CIAO bias prevents the ability of schools to create effective honest sexual education programs that would save children's lives and prevent STDs (sexually

transmitted diseases)." If someone is in a stable CIAO relationship they are less likely to engage in risky promiscuous behaviour with strangers at parties or in

public toilets.
Incestophobia could be reduced through exposure (learning about CIAO experiences), explanation (understanding the different challenges faced by CIAO

people), and experience (putting themselves in situations experienced by CIAO people by working alongside CIAO co-workers or volunteering at a CIAO

community centre).
5 Criticism of meaning and purpose
5.1 Distinctions and proposed alternatives
Researchers have proposed alternative terms to describe prejudice and discrimination against CIAO people. Some of these alternatives show more semantic

transparency while others do not include -phobia:

One alternative is ‘CIAOsexophobia’ (similar to homosexophobia.) consanguinamophobia
CIAOnegativity is based on the term CIAO-negativism, parallel to homo-negativism used by Hudson and Ricketts in a 1980 paper; they coined the term for their

research in order to avoid 'homophobia'. Like homophobia, incestophobia, may be regarded as being unscientific in its presumption of motivation.
Heterosexism refers to a system of negative attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favour of opposite-sex sexual orientation and relationships.[105] p. 13 It can

include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm[106] and therefore superior.
Sexual prejudice – Researcher at the University of California, Davis Gregory M. Herek preferred sexual prejudice as being descriptive, free of presumptions about

motivations, and lacking value judgments as to the irrationality or immorality of those so labelled. [107][108] He compared homophobia, Heterosexism, and sexual

prejudice, and, in preferring the third term, noted that homophobia was "probably more widely used and more often criticized." He also observed that "Its critics

note that homophobia implicitly suggests that antigay attitudes are best understood as an irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology

rather than a socially reinforced prejudice. In the same vein, 'Incestophobia' may also implicitly suggest that anti-CIAO attitudes are best understood as an

irrational fear and that they represent a form of individual psychopathology rather than a socially reinforced prejudice.

5.2 Opposition to the term "incestophobia"
Studies of homophobic men found that “homophobic men seemed to have higher levels of measured arousal. This lead the researchers to hypothesize that the

homophobic group under-reported their arousal, giving some credence to the idea that homophobes are in denial or repressive of homosexual urges.”
http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/siowfa13/2013/10/if-homophobes-are-afraid-of-gays-they-sure-have-a-funny-way-of-showing-it.html
Testing incestophobes in a similar fashion to homophobes will very likely reveal that they are very likely in denial or repressive of their Oedipal sexual urges.
People and groups that are incestophobic are very likely to strongly object to the use of the term "incestophobia".[109][110][111]
An example of this might be the case where a petition to de-criminalise adult consensual incest was sent to the Public Petitions Committee of the Scottish

parliament, which could not accept that the committee members were incestophobic, but which proved they were by refusing to even discuss the well-argued

petition and rejected the petition out of hand in under two minutes.
http://www.parliament.scot/GettingInvolved/Petitions/adultconsensualincest
5.2.1 Non-neutral phrasing
Use of incestophobia, incestophobic and incestophobe has been criticized as pejorative against ACI rights opponents.
Some behavioural scientists might argue that 'incestophobia' is usually used when somebody is making an pejorative evaluation of certain open and debatable value

positions, (anti CIAO) much like the former criminal charge or label of ' incest ' itself, arguing that the term may be used as an ad hominem argument against those

who advocate values or positions of which the user does not approve.
In 2012 the Associated Press (AP) Style Book was revised to advise against using non-clinical words with the suffix -phobia, in "political and social contexts." The

word incestophobia could suggest severe mental disorders, and could be substituted with "anti-CIAO" or similar phrasing. Incestophobia does not necessarily have

to be interpreted in a strict clinical sense, nor does the term 'homophobia.'
Some could say that calling someone an 'incestophobe' when they only have an aversion to incestuous practices themselves, and perhaps say that CIAO people

disgust them, may be inaccurate, because an incestophobe is someone with an abnormal fear of CIAO people.
But to others, an incestophobe is someone who is simply afraid of CIAO, or not attracted to it. And that is probably most people in an age of horror movies about

incest such the movie 'Psycho' and many others that portray CIAO relationships negatively. While not everyone is morbidly or pathologically afraid of CIAO

activities or people, some go about behaving badly towards these mostly harmless people.
Many such people are labouring under the misconceived notion that CIAO people are paedophiles who abuse children, which is a falsehood often encouraged by

the profit-driven media which thrives on creating and stirring up anger and fear in society in order to gain more attention and increase sales. As such, they are

victims of deceptions intentionally perpetrated by the media (religious organisations often own and or control newspapers). Calling these people 'incestophobic'

even if it was not their fault that they have become this way, is done, not to chastise them, but to inform and educate them of the fact that they have been

misinformed about CIAO people and they need to become better informed. The term therefore is not used abusively, but didactically.
Someone who hears themselves being described as incestophobic or as ‘that incestophobe’, may then have a chance to study themselves and become more aware

and find out if that is true, and possibly to change themselves. They might for instance find one of the many websites dedicated to informing people about CIAO

such as the Jane Dow website, and others.
(Notes: need list of CIAO websites)
Others say that 'labelling' people with the term 'incestophobe' is a political tactic designed to ' demonize' people (argument ad hominem) instead of engaging in fair

and open debate. As such, it is mere 'name calling' and a type of abuse which is the same as when people are 'objectified' and belittled, and de-humanised by

having insulting labels thrown at them. So far it seems to be that CIAO people are the ones who are really suffering the most abuse of this kind.. with the term

'mother f__ker' for example being hurled around as a term of abuse in many modern American (and copycat Australian) movies. 'The word has become something

of a catchphrase for actor Samuel L. Jackson, who frequently utters the word in his movies.[9] His use of the word helped him overcome a lifelong stuttering

problem.[10] Historically in India, the word 'Madarchodh' is used for Motherfucker, the word Madar being of Persian origin, as Madare Jendeh.[11
Wikipedia has a page on the term mother f__ker' which says the term originated in the USA, however, at the bottom of the page it refers to an India term which

came from Persia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherfucker
The urban dictionary states
Madarchod (HINDI)=Mother fucker(ENGLISH)
Most commonly/regularly used swear words by Indians/South-east
Asians. Categorized with similar incest swear words: bhenchod (sister fucker),betichod (daughter fucker)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=madarchod
A recent Australian ABC comedy show called ‘This is Littleton’ featured one scene where a yoga teacher greeted her students, referring to them collectively as

‘mother f__kers.’
(Perhaps the ABC is attempting to turn a highly offensive swear word from violent American police television shows into a meaningless expression of semi comic

‘friendly gratuitous abuse’ that is the kind of rough and tough bravado comic greeting between working class men (blokes in pubs in Australia, mimicking American

negro gangster talk) an excuse for a limited vocabulary and a lack of genuine comic writing ability and creativity.)

Some CIAO individuals may hold and express negative attitude towards 'normals' (including homosexuals and non-CIAO heterosexuals.) Their main fear of

'normals' is more likely to be caused by a fear of being persecuted arrested and jailed and possibly killed by them. CIAO people have a justifiable fear of extreme

persecution in many countries where CIAO people are regularly prosecuted and jailed. In some countries they are executed. Fear of jail and death is not an

extremely irrational fear for CIAO people to have, but incestophobes have no reason to fear CIAO people who are only interested in each other and not in

someone from another family. There never is any risk of a disease being spread around the world by CIAO people. Over 95% of children born with birth defects

are from "normals" so there is no reason for incestophobes to fear CIAO people because of the 'genetics' argument. In fact 'incestophobia' may be convenient tool
used by the establishment to distract people from the large number of preventable contributors towards birth defects and congenital diseases i.e. man-made

mutagenic substances from pollution, of all kinds of modern farm and industrial chemicals, plastics, nuclear radiation, having children later rather than early, alcohol,

cigarettes and other pharmaceuticals consumption.

Perhaps using the term ‘incest negativity’ when referring to anti-CIAO people might be preferred by some to the term ‘ incestophobia’ because it does not imply

extreme or irrational fear, but rather an aversion or dislike, however irrational or bigoted. Many people have a morbid fear of snakes even though they live in

countries where do not snakes exist because they were brainwashed by society and the media to hate and fear snakes. People can learn attitudes of hatred and

fear by osmosis, without the intervention at any time of reason, just as many grow up in a secular family celebrating Christmas each year, going to parties and

buying presents for each other but with no knowledge or interest in Christianity. Thus many people can tend to incestophobia and not know why. When confronted

they might just say ‘This is how I feel. It must be my gut instinct kicking in.’ Such people underestimate the power of nurture over nature. Some people are so well

indoctrinated by their small religious group that they have deep and morbid fear of doing anything that the group does not approve of. Thus those who were part of

the Puritan movement in the early American colony at Massachusetts taught their children that celebrating Christmas and the giving and receiving of Christmas cards

and gifts were satanic acts. These children surely would have been terrified to see someone dressed as Santa coming into their town. Making people have fears is

surely one of the important roles that religions play in the art of social control. For once people’s fears are known they are easy to manipulate. And when people

have insufficient fears, fears can to be manufactured.
Inculcating incestophobia into individuals or an entire society could be one way of encouraging them to break up from their existing family or nation system and to

amalgamate with larger outside groups, into an expanding family or foreign empire.
Miscegenation (or the inbreeding of different races) is the opposite extreme to incest, and anti-miscegenation laws were once quite common. Anti-miscegenation

laws, now a thing of the past, were based at least partly on xenophobia and racism, and people once thought that inter-racial marriage would lead to a diminution

of traditional cultures and values as well as the breaking up and loss of what had been thought to be classical European features.
Thus anti-miscegenation laws can be linked with racism and xenophobia and a fear of inter-marriage and a fear of dilution and contamination of the national gene

pool, and loss of/mutation of national knowledge and culture. Though inter-marriage is no longer illegal in most places, racism and xenophobia are on the rise and

may indicative a mass desire , or unconscious force for a cultural and genetic national re-consolidation after a long period of extremely disconcerting cultural social

and economic and technological change that has left many reeling in uncertainty about their continued national, cultural and personal identity, long and short term

job and even marriage and family prospects: i.e. their very survival; greater pressure for tighter control of immigration, (Brexit etc.) following on from the great

depression of 2008, and massive influxes of refugees in Europe from mainly the Middle East and rising economic inequality in Europe and the UK may have more

to do with a fear of national identity and sovereignty than real racism or xenophobia. Fear of excessive immigration destroying the social welfare system may be the

basic contributing factor and rationalisation for ‘racist’ immigration policies.
Ant-CIAO incest laws that criminalising CIAO People are not based on any legitimising facts, only bigotry, ignorance and incestophobia.
Anti-CIAOism / incestophobia seems to be part of a force that tends towards more rapid expansion of the existing gene pool rather its consolidation ; thus it might

go hand in hand with neo-Liberal economics and neo-imperialism and ideas of continual growth and consumption. It does not fit in with ideas of sustainable

development or conservationism.
More CIAO relationships would encourage reduced expansionism (fewer children born, and less need for new houses to be built) and greater consolidation of

cultural values within families and retaining gene pools rather than mixing them, whereas incestophobia encourages more rapid disintegration of the existing cultural

patterns, encourages more miscegenation and interbreeding that was an integral part of the accelerated colonisation of the planet and high immigration /emigration

as populations movements after WWII leading to rapid economic growth with associated pollution and the spreading of high energy consumption technologies and

high carbon fuel use and the acceleration of climate change factors such as high consumption, high population growth and accelerating globalization and the growth

of the ‘precariat.’
In this modern rapidly globalising world, ‘context’ is a slippery word and what is ‘normative’ is decidedly relative to what part of the world where the observer is

standing. Looking at the terms incest and incestophobia from a wider range of national points of view will give the inquirer a greater understanding of the true state

of affairs regarding this complicated and controversial subject.

6 See also ‘A test for incestophobia’
7 References
8 External links