Debating Incestuous Delights
July 23rd, 2027 -- Elmer Bennett
The trial was over sooner than I thought. The defense rested abruptly. Something had gone wrong for their case. That sent a nervous slither through my guts. I
wanted
Clint and his family to win. I wanted incest to be accepted.
My daughter and wife were at home doing Lord knew what while I was here. And when I got home, Candy and Rachel would be eager to do things. We were in that heady stage of exploring the delights of our incestuous threesome. After coming closer and closer over the last two years, we had finally crossed the line and enjoyed it.
Now it was up to the jury to find Clint and his family not guilty. I didn't know if that were possible. How long would this drag out. But I would fight for them and for incest. Despite my conviction, nervousness rippled through me. If I advocated too hard, would they think I was into family love? It was still taboo. Illegal.
I didn't want to end up with my own trial.
"So, well, I guess we should take a quick vote and see where we stand?" I said as we all took our seats. The twelve of us sat around a table. "Who finds not guilty?"
I put my hand up. Delilah Midgley's hand shot up right away. Then came Sandie, a motherly woman with brassy-brown hair. Dirk followed. He was the youngest person on the jury, barely in his twenties. Lyn added her hand, a plump woman. Mildred slowly raised her hand. Last, the grandmotherly woman, her hair a silver perm, held hers up.
"And who's on the side of decency," demanded Jonette Walsh. The Black woman thrust her hand into the air.
Cooper, a Black guy my age, raised his hand.
Jonette glared at the four jurors who didn't put their hands up at all. Berta, a fierce-looking Hispanic woman, glared back at Jonette. An Asian woman named Ahn just shifted from side to side, not meeting Jonette's gaze. Neither did Callahan. He was an old man, face wrinkled. Last was a round-faced, Hispanic woman named Marisela who had a pained expression.
"What is wrong with all of you?" hissed Jonette. "They admitted that they're screwing each other. The DNA tests show they're all related, not that they deny that, either. California Penal Code Section 285 says if you are over fourteen and have sex with a blood relation, you are guilty of incest! What is there to decide? Let's vote guilty and get out of here!"
"Well, what if we gave them a lower charge," Callahan said, his voice a little reedy with age.
Jonette shot him a fiery glare that deflated the old man. He shrank back. Then the Black woman swept her gaze at the rest of us. "Are any of you fucking your children? Huh? Is that why you don't want to find Clint and his family guilty."
I almost flinched against the accusation. Her eyes bored down at me. I ran into burning buildings for a living. I fought fires. Risked my life. I wouldn't be intimidated by an angry woman. I faced her withering glare.
"They are consenting," I grunted. "What does it matter if they're related by blood? What's the harm?"
"Inbreeding," Jonette spat out. "They've already polluted the world with their incestuous progeny."
"Birth control," Dirk pointed out, a big grin on his boyish face.
"You're just a pervert wanting to screw your own sister," Jonette shot back at him.
Dirk shifted. "I don't have one, but if I did..." A big grin spread on his lips. "Damn, it'd be hot. Clint is the man."
Jonette snorted in disgust.
"It used to be illegal for interracial couples to marry," I said, remembering the arguments that Clint's lawyer made. "That was wrong. Our society changed. And we can all remember, except maybe Dirk, when gay and lesbian couples couldn't marry. How is this any different? Why do our prejudices get to dictate how other people live. This is America."
Cooper leaned back. The Black man had a thoughtful look on his face. "That's a good point."
"Don't tell me you're getting convinced," groaned Jonette to the one ally she had fully on her side. "You can't be an idiot. It's not the same thing at all."
"Isn't it?" he asked. "A hundred years ago, it would be illegal for me to marry my wife. We'd be hated just for loving each other. Bigots used to think it was a crime against nature."
"Bigot?" spluttered Jonette. "You think I'm a bigot because I'm disgusted by a guy screwing his sisters and his mother! And their mothers! It is a crime against nature!"
Cooper's brow furrowed. "That's the sort of talk that maintained miscegenation."
"And denied gays and lesbians the right to marry," added Lyn, the plump woman nodding her head.
"You can't be convinced," Jonette begged of Cooper. "It's disgusting what they're doing."
"A lot of stuff is," the Black man said and shrugged. "And? I don't have to do it. You don't have to do it."
Jonette looked like someone had pissed in her drink. She glanced around the table, looking for support. She folded her arms across her chest, fury breaking over her ebony skin. She despised the Ellistons.
What did they do to her?
"I think he's a good man," Mildred said. The grandmotherly woman leaned back in her chair, a smile on her narrow lips. "I can see it in him. It just shines out of him."
"Good man?" snarled Jonette. "He whips his sister. That's abuse."
"That's BDSM," Sandie said, looking offended. The motherly woman's brassy-brown hair swept about her face. "My husband does that to me. It's exciting. Hot even. He's made my butt as red as those pictures of Leann."
"It is hot," Lyn added with this throaty purr. The black-haired woman leaned back in her chair, a large smile on her face. "Clint's such a strong man."
"I can't believe he makes you wet," Jonette hissed.
Lyn shrugged, a distant look in her eyes, a smile playing on her lips.
"And what about you. Berta." Jonette turned to the fiery Hispanic woman. "Not like you to be silent about anything."
Berta studied Jonette for a few moments then spoke, "Why are you so passionate against him? This seems personal to you? Any reason?"