Incest, infidelity, and possibly even child rape all amount to a healthy, healing, and loving relationship by Cosmo’s standards. In a recent twitter post, the “women’s bible” hyped an article normalizing not just sex between a half brother/half sister couple, as well as cheating and sex involving a 14-year-old girl and “her much-older lover.”
Disgusting and disturbing don’t even begin to describe the off-the-chart filth that is just another day at Cosmo.
The article raving “what it’s like falling in love with your sibling” demonstrated there is no taboo Cosmo won’t pursue. It also affirmed the level of morality of the liberal left – zero. In what universe does “undeniable connection” of half siblings having carnal sex get associated with falling in love?
You can probably guess how the story plays out in the article: half-siblings discover each other, they form an emotional and sexual connection neither has ever felt before, and decide it’s their destiny to live happily ever after.
Sounds like a Lifetime movie. Except happily ever after in this incest relationship has a lot of unhappiness along the way. The sibling lovers share more than DNA, as both had families that they wrecked by their infidelities and desires to act on their alleged genetic sexual attraction. The article reads:
Two weeks after they met, Brian left his wife. "Melissa wasn't the reason I left, but she was the catalyst. My marriage had been over for a while, I just didn't know how to get out of it." He hasn't told his ex — or his mother and siblings — about the sexual part of his relationship with Melissa, but his grown-up daughter from another marriage knows. His daughter "gets that I'm weird," Brian says, describing himself as artistic. She was initially shocked, but "as she thought about it, she knows that my sister can heal me in ways that other people can't," Brian says. "She's on board."
Melissa hasn't told her family either. She still lives with her two teenage daughters and her husband, who she calls "an open-minded guy," adding that in nearly two decades together she's been in multiple other relationships. "He's allowed it because he knows who I am and my upbringing." They haven't been intimate in five or six years, but are committed to co-parenting.
Even though her kids don't know everything, they're aware she has some sort of relationship with Brian, who they've met once. She sleeps over at his house every Saturday. "They're not dumb, and obviously, that's going to look weird," she admits. The girls are angry or upset when she returns. "My daughters view him as an infiltrator, as some guy who fell from the sky, and made their mother go nuts and be gone all the time," Melissa says. "There's a lot of animosity in my house. I'm living a double life."
But scarring your children, cheating on your spouse, and getting a divorce are all mere details because “their sexual and emotional connection is exceptional” and “it’s more than romance: Their relationship covers all the forms of love the ancient Greeks espoused — friendship, sex, siblinghood, and self-sacrifice.” By Cosmo’s standards, infidelity never looked so good! Especially for the sake of incest.
In hyping incest, the article also managed to gloss over what appeared to be child rape. The article detailed the woman’s fairly tragic upbringing noting that at the age of 14 “her much-older lover was allowed to move in for a time too. There were no boundaries, she says of her mother[.]” A 14-year old with a live-in, much-older lover and no boundaries is enough to make a sane person’s head spin.
How much older is “much-older” beyond 14? Cosmo didn’t say.
And yet Cosmo has managed to make light of possible child rape, if not glorifying it because it makes the woman falling in love with her brother that much loving and of course, normal. Even viler is the romanticizing of molestation as a commonality of the sibling lovers. "You wouldn't think that everything would line up, but it did," Brian says. "There's even molestation in both of our backgrounds — and at the same age, by the same [kind of] people who were at the same age." So, not even one possible child rape, but two.
Cosmo further highlighted the affection of the kindred lovers. “We have an innate trust and no boundaries because we're family. My brother is never going to hurt me.” This is incest, an illegal act in all 50 states and punishable as a felony in the state in which this very story is taking place. Keep an eye out as incest could be the next same-sex marriage, as Bryan says, “[i]f we don't start studying it [incest] more — or accepting it — people will end up in jail."
A big thanks to Cosmo though, for showing society that incest, infidelity, and child rape are all just loving, healthy relationships. Wonder what it will call normal next.
