Twincest

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Twincest is a term used to describe an incestuous relationship between twins, or siblings who look very similar.

The term twincest is mostly used in fanfiction, where it holds a large fanbase of writers and readers. Taboo relationships thrive in the world of fandom and fanfiction, and many fans read and write stories featuring explicit romantic and sexual relationships between twins. In the case of twins, the inherent "closeness" of the siblings involved adds to the already-taboo nature of consensual, incestuous relationships.

Mainstream twincest relationships are common place in media such as commercials for beer and men's magazines. In these cases, twincest relationships are usually only implied and almost always used for a shock effect.

1 Major examples
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Major examples

[edit] The Ring of the Nibelung

In Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, twins Siegmund and Sieglinde commit incest at the end of Act 1 of Die Walküre. The offspring of this union is Siegfried, the hero of the next operas in the Ring cycle, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.

[edit] Star Wars

In addition, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia of Star Wars have a romantic (although not overtly sexual) relationship in A New Hope and, to a reduced extent, The Empire Strikes Back. In Return of the Jedi, however, Leia has seemingly chosen only to be with Han Solo even before it is revealed to her that she and Luke are twins.

[edit] Balinese culture

In traditional Balinese culture, a set of twins of the opposite sex were forced to marry each other, since it was assumed that they had had sex in utero.^[1]