Most often, incestual relations are disastrous, mostly due to worldwide social taboos. Another cause of incestual trauma has to do with non-consensual or forced sex.
I am happy to say that neither of these stigmas were a part of my incestual experience with my half sister.
In 1960, I was 18 years old and still a virgin; I was reintroduced to my half-sister. She was twenty-six and beautiful! She looked like a film star.
I was immediately mesmerized by her beauty, intellect and worldly quality. She seemed to know many famous people and had a very glamorous life style; jazz clubs, coffee houses, after hours joints.
The last time I had seen my half-sister, I was four or five. She had become estranged from the rest of the family due to a scandal which had occurred back in the 1940's. She had accused our father of incest and it triggered a lot of newspaper stories.
Our father was a psychiatrist and an infamous womanizer. We lived in a mansion in Hollywood, which was well known for its wild parties. Most of the children in our neighborhood were forbidden to play with my brothers and me, due to our father's reputation.
MY father hired the best attorney money could buy and beat the rap, branding my poor sister as a liar and little girl, obsessed with her father. A label that would stick with her for most of her life.
I guess things had calmed down a bit between my father and sister, because in the late 1950's, he was visiting on one of his rare trips from the orient, he took the entire family, my mother, two brothers and half-sister to see "West Side Story". The play was at the Shrine Auditorium and he had arranged box seats.