Little girls cannot marry Daddy. Our religious and cultural mores dictate that sexual partners be sought outside one s immediate family. It has been called the last taboo. In recent years romance novels have been edging ever closer to previously forbidden areas. Heroines need no longer be virgins or younger than 26.
Heroes can be other than tall, dark, handsome, wealthy, and experienced.
Detailed lovemaking is portrayed, and couples need not be married. What was once only alluded to in the vaguest of terms is now described in explicit and even more explicit language. Now it appears that all bars are down because incest is creeping into romance fiction. I am fully aware that there is ugliness in the world and that incest exists, but I deplore a book that treats the subject in an accepting way. The buzz about it was that it was a powerful and memorable.