 My name is Sam Darklin, and I am the author of Malignod's Self-Lover, Narcissism Revisited. Perhaps the most pertinent feature of incest has been either to downplay it. Incest is essentially an autoerotic act akin to masturbation. Having sex with a first degree blood relative such as a child is like having sex with oneself. It is a narcissistic act, and like all acts narcissistic it involves the objectification of the partner, transforming the partner into an object. The incestuous narcissist overvalues and then devalues his sexual partner. The narcissist is devoid of empathy. He cannot see the other's point of view or plight, and he cannot put himself in his or her shoes. So as siblings and progeny grow older, the narcissist begins to see their potential to be edifying, satisfactory and reliable sources of narcissistic supply. His attitude is completely transformed. The former threats have now become promising potentials. And he cultivates those whom he trusts to be the most rewarding. The narcissist encourages his children, his siblings, to idolize him, to adore him, to be owed by him, to admire his deeds and capabilities, to learn to blindly trust and obey him. In short, to surrender to his charisma and to become submerged in his fully de-gandeur grandiose fantasies. It is at this stage that the risk of child abuse from emotional incest and up to and including outright sexual incest. This risk is heightened. The narcissist to start with is autoerotic. He is the preferred object of his own sexual attraction. He is actually sexually attracted to himself. His siblings and his children share his genetic material. Molesting or having intercourse with him is as close as a narcissist gets to having sex with himself. Moreover, the narcissist perceives sex in terms of annexation. The partner is assimilated and becomes an extension of the narcissist, a fully controlled and manipulated object. Sex to the narcissist is the ultimate act of depersonalization and objectification of the other. The narcissist actually masturbates with other people's bodies. Miners pose little danger of criticizing the narcissist or confronting him. They are perfect. They are malleable. They are abundant sources of narcissistic supply. The narcissist derives gratification from having coital relations with adulating physically and mentally inferior inexperienced and dependent bodies. These roles are allocated to his children, his siblings explicitly and demandingly or implicitly and perniciously by the narcissist. These roles are best fulfilled by ones whose mind is not yet fully formed and independent. The older the siblings or offspring get, the more they become critical of the narcissist, even judgmental. This narcissist dislikes intensely, of course. When they grow older, siblings and children are better able to put into context and perspective the narcissist's actions to question his motives, to anticipate his moves. They are, in other words, rendered useless by the passage of time. A parent diagnosed with full-fledged narcissistic personality disorder should be denied custody and be granted only restricted rights of visitation under supervision. Narcissists accord the same treatment to children as they do to adults. They regard both as sources of narcissistic supply, mere instruments of gratification. They idealize them at first, and then they devalue them in favor of alternative, safer, and more subservient sources. Such treatment is traumatic and can have long-lasting emotional effects. The narcissist's inability to acknowledge and abide by the personal boundaries set by others puts his children at a heightened risk of abuse, verbal, emotional, physical, and often sexual. The narcissist's possessiveness and ponoply over indiscriminate negative emotions, transformations of aggression, such as rage and envy, these hinder the narcissist's ability to act as a good enough parent. His propensities for reckless behavior, substance abuse, and sexual deviance endanger the child's welfare, or even, in extreme cases, the child's life.