Incest in popular culture
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Incest is a popular topic in English erotic fiction; there are entire collections and websites devoted solely to incest, and there exists an entire genre of pornographic pulp fiction known as "incest novels". Incest is sometimes mentioned or described in mainstream, non-erotic fiction. Connotations can be negative, positive, or neutral.
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Sculpture
- A 1857 statue by American sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer of Beatrice Cenci, who was accused of patricide in retaliation for incest, stands at the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.[1]
- The National Academy Museum presented a sculptural series by Tess O'Dwyer on the subject of incest entitled "Remnants of Violence"; the work suspended dozens of tricycle seats with bronze figures of sexually molested children and their headless abusers as a site specific work in the museum's rotunda in May 2014.[2][3]
See also
- Transgressive fiction
- Incest in the Bible
- Incest in folklore
- Incest in pornography
- Incest between twins in popular culture
