Swiss government is considering legalizing sex between family members

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Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:

sapphi_snake said:

Hmm, is 2 cousins having sex considered incest? (Catholics can marry their first cousins, right?)

Mostly, no, it's not considered incest. In some places in the US it's illegal but marrying a first cousin is legal in almost all of Europe. I'm  not sure what the Catholic church's stance is on the subject, though.

Aha, anyways, incest should be legal between consenting adults. And so should adultery (it's illegal in my country).

I can see why adultery would be illegal.  You signed a contract to be faithful to your wife.  Now I wouldn't give adultery any penalty outside of divorce court but I can see the use for it having an "illegal" status.

In Romania you have civil marriage and religious/whatever marriage. Civil marriage is the only type of marriage that matters, and the contract is standard, with no sexual fidelity clause.

Also, adultery is irrelevant in the case of divorce also, as in Romania when 2 people divorce they get what they had when they went into the marriage. Only goods that were brought together are shared, and you have to prove that you contributed financially to their purchase.

A wife/husband can ask for alimony only if she/he suffers from a condition that does not enable them to get a job (and in some cases they can only recive alimony for just 1 year after the divorce is final).

We don't even have prenuptial agreements here, because we don't need them.

Well... that's just messed up.  No offense.

I mean say my girlfriend and I were married, when we both graduated college only one of us was going to be able to go to graduate school for it to work, so she went to graduate school and I've just picked up various jobs I can find to get us through the bills.

If we were to get divorced after she graduated and bought a bunch of stuff, I can't prove I financially helped pay for stuff, but she'd of never gone through college without me.  Furthermore I gave up a definite high paying careerpath to let her go to college so it'd work for her finanically since she cares more about what she does then I do.  (Had connections through a proffessor that would of probably ensured me a very high paying job.)

To not consider the effect the marriage has one the partner is crazy.

I mean, what about people who COULD of gotten education or another job, but stay home because they want to be good parents?  It just seems like an insentive against good parenting.

They didn't said financial contribution... support is considered contribution also... and in most place even with divorce generating wealth division, usually the man complain that he did all of that alone while the partner just staied at home.

And if you both choose one path it's your choice and you must stand by it... no one obligated you to marry or work for the other education... so you can't complain after that you sacrificed yourself for someone and now were throw away.