BERLIN, GERMANY Some experts contend Germany's anti-incest law should be changed to modernize the system and keep the law out of moral issues.The call comes after a 28-year-old man was given a two-and-a-half-year prison term for sex with his 21-year-old sister, Deutsche Weller reports.
The woman was sentenced to a year of social services supervision.
The two met in 2000 after living in separate foster care homes and now have four children.
The German law doesn't ban the procreation part, it's the actual consensual adult sex between siblings or parents and their offspring that is illegal.
Joachim Renzkikowski, a sexual criminal law expert at Halle University, said the laws should be changed to not interfere in cultural or moral belief matters.
He said that law should go the way of adultery and homosexual sex laws long gone from criminal statute books.
from Sience Daily
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