Reddit users directed their curious questions towards those who admitted breaking the taboo as they tried to understand how someone could end up sleeping with a member of their own family.Some reported falling into incestuous relationships after simply looking for someone to experiment with, while others claimed a complicated childhood drove them towards sex with a sibling or cousin.One Redditor who said they were sharing their secret with the world for the "first time ever" wrote: "I've been in a sexual relationship with my fraternal twin sister for around a year, we were 17 when we started and it really wasn't a moment that then led to full on sex or anything like that."The first sexual contact I would say we had was pretty much just a passionate hug."But they then began to "have more than a typical sibling relationship" when the twins "developed in terms of how we expressed our feelings", with the siblings now passing the year mark as sexual partners.They believed the fact that they spent a lot of time with each other had resulted in the mutual attraction, something which they understood was a "common cause of people finding close relatives attractive".Another female user said that incest among girls in the family had been common when she was growing up — and sounded surprisingly blasé about it.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.She penned: "My sister and cousins all pushed the incest envelope."We were all girls and would play house so to speak but some of us really took it far...
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