# So... Adult incest is legal in NJ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320 "2015-01-19T22:38:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/41 "2015-01-20T21:29:00Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Thanks to you, South Park’s “Uncle Fucka” and Arlo Guthrie’s “Father-rapers, there on the Group W bench” are fighting it out in my head. Don’t forget “Im My Own Grandpa”. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/42 "2015-01-20T21:48:15Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Ooh, a fresh idea for a new season of Survivor! > [@mhendo](#): > > Or maybe The Bachelor. Or a game show - The Family Lewd ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/43 "2015-01-20T23:02:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Odds are the writer’s didn’t either. 😛 I never was able to watch SVU. But the original L&O usually get the basic statutes right. It actually led to confusion because at times they used New York specific laws when the concepts weren’t exactly like that in most other states. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/44 "2015-01-21T00:41:26Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Don’t forget “Im My Own Grandpa”. Sorry, it didn’t make the finals. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/45 "2015-01-21T02:56:14Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There was a ruling a few years back in WI that fucking a corpse was legal, so if you’re in doubt about fucking relatives here, kill them first! Oh, that one really needs a cite. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/46 "2015-01-21T04:23:59Z")
> [@Squall Winds](#): > > I’d hope that, by this point, there are no laws anywhere in the US criminalizing consensual sex between two parties above the state’s age of consent… In 49 states it’s illegal for 2 (or more) consenting adults to engage in sex if one of them is paying the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/47 "2015-01-21T14:59:24Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Or a game show - The Family Lewd I don’t think that’ll put their ‘Star’ on Hollywood Boulevard. Maybe a few blood drops though… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/48 "2015-01-21T15:03:37Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Oh, that one really needs a cite. Can’t answer this properly from work, but I did a thread on it at the time. A’ll post something this afternoon. I do recall that the first judge’s opinion (throwing out a case against 3 guys who dug up a corpse) was upheld by an appeals court too. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/49 "2015-01-21T18:05:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I’ll bet you there are enough people to populate a reality television show with an incest theme. My brother was a Criminal Justice major although he never worked in that industry later. Back in college he did 2 summers of internship with the local County Attorney’s office, AKA the public prosecutor’s office. I once asked him what the experience taught him. His answer, in a disgusted tone of voice > [@My Bro](#): > > Statistically speaking, incest is normal human behavior. Anecdotal I know. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/50 "2015-01-21T21:00:24Z")
Cool, a whole new genre of realty tv series; parents and children, brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles and nieces or nephews, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/51 "2015-01-21T22:35:27Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Oh, that one really needs a cite. [The thread I did on this back in 2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387006&page=3) – very funny, if I do say so myself. In post #139 I linked to the story that the case against 3 men who dug up a corpse to have sex with it had been thrown out by a judge who ruled that what they were attempting to do wasn’t against the law. Unfortunately, time has rendered the link broken. [The next year I did another thread about a prisoner who was appealing his conviction for fucking a dead deer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450685), based on the ruling above. His lawyer was arguing that since it wasn’t illegal to have sex with a human corpse, it was fundamentally unfair to convict someone from having sex with a deer corpse. But damn it the links are too old to work there either. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/52 "2015-01-22T03:28:45Z")
I found a reference to Boyo Jim’s case [in this article from 2007](http://www.huliq.com/34426/us-states-lack-laws-explicitly-outlawing-necrophilia). What does it say about people that the article is careful to not state what the nine states are? How can it be illegal to re-use a casket, but not the corpse? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320/53 "2015-01-22T16:33:54Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > In 49 states it’s illegal for 2 (or more) consenting adults to engage in sex if one of them is paying the other one. 50 really. It is not legal in all of Nevada. As could easily be predicted, the news story is generating the need for legislators to feel the need to put their name on a bill. I predict no one will vote against and be labeled as pro-incest. > **[Incest outrage: Bill would ban sex between related adults in N.J.](https://www.nj.com/news/2015/01/incest_outrage_bill_would_ban_sex_between_related.html)** > > Incest has been legal in New Jersey since 1979. Here is a good overview of the topic. TL;DR incest was illegal in NJ until 1979 when the new criminal code was enacted and the old law was not carried over. > **[Q&A: Is incest really legal in New Jersey?](https://www.nj.com/news/2015/01/incest_qa_daughter_plans_to_marry_dad.html)** > > Dad and daughter plan to move to New Jersey to live as a married couple. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320.md?page=2)