He had Sex with his Aunt!!!!
Does anyone find this disgusting?
shareWell...She wasn't his blood aunt.Plus I find my aunt pretty attractive and we dont have a matching bloodline.
shareDo you live in a trailer park? The last time I checked having sex with your aunt is kind of illegal.
shareshe wasn't really related to him at all, only by marriage...and she was HOT
And only barely related by marriage at that. And yeah, she was fairly shagable!
shareThis is hysterical. I wondered when this would be brought up.
The writers kept it so that "technically" he wasn't engaging in incest, even in a roundabout way.
With that said, notice how when Brantley realizes who she is, her first response is "Auntie Vera?" and laughs hysterically. After that encounter, she still pursues him with an intense libido, both in Howard's office, then in kissing Brantley behind a doorway at their party. The point being, I think was to show the comedic elements of how a midwestern, boy-next-door, fish out of water pup like Brantley could get caught up in the dormant sexual yearnings of a gorgeous sophisticated metropolitan woman like Vera, and how their "incest" didn't even phase her, but instead his innocence actually turned her on.
I also find it hysterical how several men on this board wouldn't have minded "getting it on" with their "attractive aunts" when the men were teenagers. Me personally? No, lol. But I have witnessed over the years how some young men are with an older woman and I wonder if it's a relative (from the way they relate) and the "closeness" and "intimacy" between them seems to near borderline inappropriate. Innocent enough stuff to a degree, but you've gotta wonder.
No it's not. Being molested by a relative is illegal, but in most states it's perfectly legal to marry a first cousin, let alone some completely unrelated lady who married your uncle.
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They were really distant relatives (as proven by what Brantley's mum said before he left, about the dead cousin's blah blah thing) and they certainly weren't blood relatives. It's not too disgusting a thing, seeing as in normal villages/towns/communities, people are all going to be rather related. marrying the wife of your third cousin several times removed's son doesn't sound that terrible.
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fair play to him. his aunty was GREAT. plus it would be kinda cool gettin' one over on your uncle. get her bucked big lad.
shareIf you only look at it from the perspective that he called her "Aunt" then yes, it's disgusting. But if you look at it the way it really is then he didn't sleep with his aunt.
First of all, relatively speaking she's not his aunt, but rather a cousin. Plus, neither her nor Howard were related by blood and technically not even legally. His mother's cousin Helen married Howard's half-sister's nephew. If the nephew came from the parent of Howard's sister that wasn't his parent, then technically Brantly's family wasn't even related by blood. That's more of an adopted family, where you and the rest of society consider you family (legal or otherwise) when in fact no ties (legal or blood) exists.
The fact that he called him "Uncle" Howard wasn't accurate. That's a relationship that would only exist on any level if he was a sib of one of his parents, which he wasn't. If anything he was cousin, but technically he wasn't even that.
So no, him sleeping with Vera wasn't disgusting.
They were not related by DNA.
I freaked out the simalr way in the Very Brady Sequel, when Marcia and Greg were kissing on the lips...then my dad said stepsiblings are legally allowed to engage in sexual relations since they don't have common DNA. But most stepsibling don't.
If step-siblings shagged, it would be perfectly legal as long as they were both consenting, of-age adults. There is no "law" preventing ANY two adults from havine sexual relations. Get over that.
It may make your skin crawl, and if too closely related, negative genes are often reinforced, but it is NOT illegal. Period.
Agreed.
There's a difference between having sex, and marrying. There is no law preventing step-siblings from either having sex or getting married--in fact I know of a married couple who are also step-siblings (their parents married when both were adults).
There is also no law against siblings having sex--just against getting married.
Well, incest is prohibited between consenting adults...
sharePeople have been arrested for having sex with siblings and/or parents, even adults with no history of being abused or of abusing. Check it out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1388930/posts
Not really, they werent actually related per se.
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If my aunt was that hot and ready to go, hell I'd nail her too.
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Listen, yeah she was kind of a skank; but she stripped him naked in the pool, nature took over and what happened happened. I'd do it too if I were in his shoes. Oh wait a minute, he was naked. Well all you guys know what I mean.
shareNumber one, she wasn't his aunt by blood and number two, at the time he had sex with her, he didn't really know who she was.
shareStill gross. You can split hairs about bloodlines etc., but the fact remains that they are (or were) related, even if by marriage. This is, as it should be, taboo.
When life rolls you a 7-10 split, aim for that 7 pin and let 'er rip
Brilliant, so if you have sex with your brother's wife's sister it's wrong and immoral is it? People don't seem to understand.....well, life here. If there's no blood link with someone, they are in no way connected to you in any immediate family sense for christs sake.
Don't be moronic.
Plus, as someone pointed out, it's a film ffs.
Tough talk Ratinho, but your argument is false ffs. You don't need a blood link to be related, and that's the point ffs. Adoptive parents and step-parents do not have a blood link to their children, but it IS still wrong for them to have sex the children, right?
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It's a *beep* comedy!! Get off your soapbox, jackass. In fact, they should have shown more than what they did. Show them screwing in Howard's office. That would've been great.
shareWhat planet are you on? No, you don't need a blood link to be related, but his mother's "cousin Ellen married his half-sister's nephew" and you equate this having sex with his aunt?
You and I must be related then.
You just have to be resigned-
You're crashing by design
Yes, because they are children, duh.
shareIt is real. Do you know how much people date thier cousins. In the bible, Isaac (son of Abraham and very great ancestor of Jesus Christ) married his cousin. (Abraham's brother's daughter) If this was wrong, do you think that the Lord would have chosen Mary and Joseph who had an ancestry similiar to this. Besides, Brantley and Vera were not even that closely related. Didn't we all come from the same two people Adam and Eve. Did not thier children all marry and reproduce. (in case you're confused,despite the focus on Cain and Abel, the bible says there were many others)
Anyway, that woman was his exact age and was freaking fine, if it was not sinful to have sex before marriage, I would have done the same thing, probably even better than Brantley did.