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I think for me it was when I was way younger, single digits younger. My sister and I decided to play "you show me yours and I'll show you mine". We already knew that running around naked was "bad" so we hid in my room and my mom caught us. I don't think I ever had a "incest is bad" talk but I definitely knew that both me and my sister naked in the same room and looking at each other was a definite nope from mom. I think because most of us learn about this before we discover our sexuality that incest is never really a thing that crosses our minds. Too many years ingrained as a nope before we even really "think" about anything sexual.I think it more or less becomes a "unspoken" rule, and you won't know before get caught pants down doing something you shouldn't be doing. Like siblings might be doing some show and tell as kids, get discovered and get spanked for it, but prior wouldn't get told such shouldn't happen. There is a far stretch between kids exploring at such an age, and lets say teens . Because at that stage you should know, and the consequences. But at that stage in life it's also where you go through a lot of changes both physically and emotionally.
So while in a western society, one thing is so and so, but in some other it might be different. As I commented on before, there is places where kids get married off to uncles, cousins get set up etc. Because, tradition, and just how it's done. Practices frown upon by standards of others.
So, when did someone seat themselves down with you and gave you the talk about not desire your own family and what incest is? Or anyone else here? What is the earliest memory you have about what incest is? I probably didn't get the meaning of it before going through the story about Oedipus while in school. At younger age it was just crude remarks and insults along the line of "motherfucker" and things like that with not really knowing the real meaning behind it. It was just things "kids" picked up and thought was cool to say.
P.S. Just wanted to say that even though we have been kind of counter pointing each other that I have enjoyed this discussion immensely Joshua Tree