Research Project INDONESIA HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME.

While most view incest as being intimate relations involving members of the immediate family, the law spells out what it is exactly that constitutes incest by defining it as, "sexual relations between any relatives to whom marriage would be prohibitive." This then would extend beyond the immediate family to include first cousins as well as aunts and uncles on either the mother's or the father's side of the family line. While laws and taboos against incest are veritably universal, this in no way means that incestual practices are not happening; far from it. Incestual relations are taking place every hour of the day and night. In this volume we will be looking at five case histories of young girls who, though participating in sexual intercourse with an uncle, and in one case, an aunt, found their main pleasure in the performance of oral acts, fellatio and cunnilingus; and in several instances, anilingus. While oral stimulation of a partner's sexual organs could conceivably be considered a sidelight to actual intercourse, findings at the International Institute for Sexual Research show that "oral copulation among family members is one of the more common forms of incest," although this has not been widely publicized ...»