Mother and son in love in N.M. will go to jail to defend their relationship

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As creepy as this is, I say this should be legal. I suppose one could argue that they risk having a child with birth defects, but jail time is excessive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3725551/Mother-36-son-19-fell-love-met-year-gave-adoption-baby-say-willing-risk-JAIL-defend-love.html

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Honestly, the only arguments for this being illegal are definition of consent and potential for birth defects. I suppose one could argue that a parent/child sexual relationship can't be truly consensual. However, in this case, it's pretty clear that both partners romantically love each other. Another issue is are both the mother and son mentally healthy. I know it's easy to assume they aren't, but I don't think this can be proven across the board for mother/son sexual relationships, especially this case as the son was put up for adoption as a newborn and they met as adults.

On a tangent, once I heard a discussion about consent for adults with disabilities. It's interesting because we need to protect the vulnerable, but adults with disabilities are sexual beings and should be allowed to have healthy sexual relationships.