Riverdale, which premiered last week on The CW after a heavy ad campaign, is hardly a new take on the teen dramedy as much as it is a welcome successor to a genre eagerly gobbled up by its target audience and adults who should know better alike. Though it reads as an almost perfect mashup of Dawson’s Creek—whose EP…
Martin Blake’s case originally gained notoriety when he was given no prison time after being convicted on one charge of “felony incest.” It turns out the 12-year-old he admitted to raping is his own daughter, and her mother and grandmother have campaigned to reintegrate him into their community.
Monica Mares gave up her son Caleb Peterson when she was 16 years old. The two reconnected on Facebook when he was 19, and met in person around last Christmas. Soon he was living with her. Not long after that, they say, they became lovers.
The various dramatic plotlines on How to Get Away With Murder are always juicy, but we are waiting with bated breath for the show to answer one of the juiciest of all: what will happen to the relationship between Wes and Annalise? Two popular fan theories provide the most intrigue: all that tension between Wes and…
During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson compared abortion to slavery. After saying he was opposed to a person’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, Carson added, “During slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they…
A news reporter speaking to the victim of a fire got an amazing scoop when he asked the woman, whose garage was set ablaze, if she had any idea about who committed the arson and why. “I don’t want to mention no names,” the woman said before revealing that it was her cousin who did it. But the reason why? That needs to…
Friday’s an excellent day for fun facts, and this week’s excellent and important piece of information comes from FiveThirtyEight’s Ask Mona column which answers the important question of how many people are not just kissing, but wedding their cousins in the United States.
You can't really help who you're attracted to, but what if the person you're the most attracted to ever happens to be a blood relative? Like your father? Such was the case for an 18-year-old woman who dropped some real talk about her now two-year relationship with daddio in a recent interview. BUCKLE UP, somebody's…
Of all the problems to have in a relationship, dating a chain of men who are messing around with their sisters isn't one that comes up a lot. One woman, however, is on her second man with a crush on his sister and she needs some help. Desperately.
An Australian judge is receiving a great amount of criticism for comments claiming that incest and pedophilia will become more acceptable over time just like gay rights.
After the huge ratings success of Lifetime's adaptation of V.C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic (its most-watched original movies in years), the network quickly ordered up an adaptation of the gothic novel's sequel Petals on the Wind.
V.C. Andrews is practically an institution. Her young adult gothic horror novels have sold more than 106 million copies, been translated into 24 languages, and educated generations of adolescent girls about consensual incest. Hers is the longest-running literary franchise in history and she's one of the most popular…
The story that taught a generation of women about incest (back when it was still taboo, before Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley made it acceptable) has been turned into a Lifetime movie staring Heather Graham, Ellen Burstyn and Kiernan Shipka as the girl who fucks her brother.
Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn have both signed on to star in Lifetime's TV movie adaptation of V.C. Andrews' bestselling novel that familiarized countless of adolescent girls with the beauty of "cerulean blue eyes" and fucking your brother.
There are a few very specific problems that one deals with as a citizen of Iceland, most of them not even Bjork-related. In fact, the immediate threat is the phantom possibility of accidentally sleeping with one of your cousins.
Since around 2pm on Monday, I've felt like a contestant on a sadistic Japanese game show, donning an American flag bikini and a blindfold, covered in glue and standing in a phone booth, trying to catch dollar bills with my flailing arms as an industrial strength blower propels cash around me at high speeds. But…
Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin is so, so sorry. He's so unbelievably, self-flagellatingly remorseful that he has released a new ad begging voters' forgiveness, claiming he used the "wrong words in the wrong way." But that's not enough for top GOP officials, who are trying to come in and shut that whole thing down. Guy…
While the idea of accidentally hooking up with one's cousin is quite disturbing, it's a real possibility when you live in a place like Iceland that only has 300,000 people to choose from. That's why there's a new website called Íslendingabók, aka the Book of Icelanders. It sounds like a cooler version of Facebook, but…
Yesterday, Rick Perry announced that he'd had a change of heart about what women should be allowed to do with their bodies, and now fully supports the bit of the Personhood USA pledge that says, "abortion and the innocent killing of life should always be prohibited." Today he clarified that he does find abortion…
We've been repeatedly horrified over the years by incidents similar to the case of Joseph Fritzl, the Austrian man convicted of holding his daughter captive for many years while he sexually abused her. However, "Adolf B," the man dubbed the "German Fritzl" by the media, has managed to add a disgusting new twist to the…
