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Inbreeding. Common fruit fly females prefer to mate with their own brothers over unrelated males. [1] Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically. [2] By analogy, the term is used in human reproduction, but more commonly refers to the genetic disorders ...
Covert incest. Covert incest, also known as emotional incest, is a type of abuse in which a parent looks to their child for the emotional support that would be normally provided by another adult. [1] The effects of covert incest on children when they become adults are thought to mimic actual incest, although to a lesser degree. [2]
Matriphagy. Matriphagy is the consumption of the mother by her offspring. [1] [2] The behavior generally takes place within the first few weeks of life and has been documented in some species of insects, nematode worms, pseudoscorpions, and other arachnids as well as in caecilian amphibians. [3] [4] [5]
Haplodiploidy is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid. [1] Haplodiploidy is sometimes called arrhenotoky . Haplodiploidy determines the sex in all members of the insect orders Hymenoptera ( bees, ants, and wasps) [2] and Thysanoptera ...
Hani Miletski. Hani Miletski (born 1962) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda, Maryland. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, in sex addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system. She studied at The Catholic University of America and has a doctorate from the unaccredited Institute for ...
Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel. In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.. Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, including domineering but asexual mother ...
A person and the child of one of his full, consanguineous or uterine brothers or sisters or with a descendant thereof. The mother or the father and the husband or the wife, the widower or the widow of his child or of another of his descendants. Stepmother or stepfather and the descendant of the other spouse.
Mothers and Sons. Mothers and Sons is a 2006 collection of short stories written by Irish writer Colm Tóibín and published in 2006. The book was published in hardback by Picador, and each of its stories explores an aspect of the mother-son relationship. All take place in contemporary Ireland, except that the last and longest, "A Long Winter ...