[mjustice]

Incest is not rape of a minor - it's sexual relations with a person you typically could not marry. Age is not an issue.

From the dictionary:
1. Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.

2. The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.

From NY Penal Law:
"A person is guilty of incest when he or she marries or engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a person whom he or she knows to be related to him or her, either legitimately or out of wedlock, as an ancestor, descendant, brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece."

This is what Santorum meant, not raping a relative.

MJ

[mabelkitty]

I'm not at all convinced Bill Clinton isn't the spawn of such a union.

[Wright is right!]

"Incest is not rape of a minor - it's sexual relations with a person you typically could not marry. Age is not an issue."

Correct. An example would be the presumptive activities of Angelina Jolie and her adult brother. I have personally known at least one "couple" consisting of an adult brother and adult sister.

Michael

[kevao]

From NY Penal Law: "A person is guilty of incest when he or she marries or engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with a person whom he or she knows to be related to him or her, either legitimately or out of wedlock, as an ancestor, descendant, brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece."

Golly, can me and sis really get into trouble if'n we didn't know that there's laws out there agin our relationship?