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America’s Incest Obsession: “Flowers in the Attic” Is Back, as Are the Memories
vocativ.com ^

Posted on 01/17/2014 12:36:26 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Ahead of the new Lifetime movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews 1979 cult classic, we explore why incest plotlines are so enduring in popular culture

Lifetime’s Flowers in the Attic, the movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews’ sordid and soapy tale of family dysfunction, will air tomorrow night, and for millions of American women in their 30s and 40s, it’s sure to be mandatory viewing....

A survey of incest plotlines in popular culture over the past few years alone includes Game of Thrones (sister and brother, Cersei and Jaime); Boardwalk Empire (mother and son, Gillian and Jimmy); Dexter (adopted sister and brother, Deb and Dexter); Bored to Death (half-sister and brother, Jonathan and Rose); Bates Motel (mother and son, Norma and Norman); and Top of the Lake (half-sister and brother, Robin and Johnno, though was only a scare)—not to mention, Brothers and Sisters, Supernatural, Nip/Tuck, Lost, Veronica Mars, Californication, Six Feet Under and the upcoming mini-series The Spoils of Babylon, which stars Toby Maguire and Kristen Wiig as romantically involved adopted siblings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: incest; perversion; sexuality; sick
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Sodomy is celebrated, pedophilia winked at, now incest giggled about.....Judgement is no doubt near.
1 posted on 01/17/2014 12:36:26 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oedipus and Jocasta, Siegmund and Sieglinde ...

But seriously, I’ve never seen any of the programs mentioned, although one couldn’t be literate in my generation without being aware that “Flowers in the Attic” was a huge bestseller.


2 posted on 01/17/2014 12:40:21 PM PST by Tax-chick (Tell the mad chameleon he's not welcome anymore.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obsession with depravity... we are so swirling the drain.


3 posted on 01/17/2014 12:43:31 PM PST by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good fn grief!! This madness MUST stop.


4 posted on 01/17/2014 12:45:50 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: SoFloFreeper
Incest has been an important part of Europe's governing institutions for hundreds of years.



That would explain lots of things...
5 posted on 01/17/2014 12:46:09 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well it looks like incest is going to be the liberals next sexual sin to normalize now that they are done with homosexuality, funny, I though they would try for pedophilia or bestiality first. But maybe they think they stand a better chance with incest, after all they can use the exact same argument they used with homosexuals (IE Two consenting adults, opposition based on old outdated moral customs, nobody harmed)


6 posted on 01/17/2014 12:46:38 PM PST by apillar
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To: SoFloFreeper

I heard on the radio yesterday that a judge overturned an incest conviction of and uncle who sodomized his nephew on the grounds that the incest statute prohibited familial procreation and procreation cannot result from sodomy.


7 posted on 01/17/2014 12:49:13 PM PST by AU72
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To: apillar

Im willing to pay ten Billion Dollars to the first person... who can show me evidence of the INCEST GENE!


8 posted on 01/17/2014 12:49:27 PM PST by MeshugeMikey (This Message NOT Approved By The N.S.A.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

AAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

I never read “Flowers in the Attic” but I feel like I’ve seen about a million people reading it. I had no idea it was about incest!

And what was incestuous about “Brothers & Sisters”- I watched that show a few times and I thought it was pretty unshocking, if soapy. Are there 2 shows with this name?


9 posted on 01/17/2014 12:51:09 PM PST by jocon307
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To: SoFloFreeper

The only people obsessed with incest are Hollywood and the major book publishers. Who controls them? Look up their names and backgrounds. They are not Christian and I wouldn’t even consider them American.


10 posted on 01/17/2014 12:51:34 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Once you open Pandora’s Box... you can’t close it


11 posted on 01/17/2014 12:52:35 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Tax-chick

I never heard of the book. I did try to watch “Game of Thrones” but after about a season, I gave it up, too much pornography overwhelmed any storyline.


12 posted on 01/17/2014 12:54:06 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Tax-chick
And don't forget the ghetto's favorite obscenity MF.
13 posted on 01/17/2014 12:54:14 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto
Yeah .....

" ... incest plotlines are so enduring in popular culture ... "

Says who ?

14 posted on 01/17/2014 12:56:27 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’ve never watched any of those shows.


15 posted on 01/17/2014 12:56:47 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Do you know who these poeple are? If so PLEASE ID them?


16 posted on 01/17/2014 12:58:51 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Ok, in Supernatural, a comment was made about incest fan fiction involving the 2 brothers. The reaction of the brothers was “Ewww,” most of the incest subtext is invented by the people doing fan fiction. In Veronica Mars, the plotline was “why did Duncan dump Veronica?” And the reason was because Duncan’s dad had an affair with Veronica’s mom for years and Duncan’s mom told him Veronica was his half sister. Veronica only got with Duncan after a DNA test proved no relation.
Since the author is so totally wrong in this case, I really can’t take the rest of the article seriously.


17 posted on 01/17/2014 12:59:10 PM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: SoFloFreeper
How did you get to a site that had this report that got your attention that induced you to post it ?

I mean ... I occasion a ... um .... sort of ... ahhhhh .... you know .... a ummmm .... sex site ... but I'm not moved to post anything.

18 posted on 01/17/2014 1:02:46 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Queen Victoria and her kids and grandkids, by her husband, and first cousin, Prince Albert.


19 posted on 01/17/2014 1:02:49 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Tax-chick
I never heard of it.

I suppose because I was in Makhachkala at the time.

Just kidding Comrade!

20 posted on 01/17/2014 1:03:38 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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