Monday, I was flipping through the satellite channels, and the "Sodom & Gomorrah" episode of
History's Mysteries, where the filmmakers try to determine whether the cities were real, caught my attention. I'd known about Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt since I was a kid, but this was the first time (I can remember) I learned about his two daughters getting him drunk and fathering their children.
Wednesday, as I'm reading up on
Lot's incestuous relations, a story about
Mackenzie Phillips' relationship with her
father is making headlines:
Mackenzie Phillips says she had sex with her dadMackenzie Phillips' book was in the top 20 on Amazon.com as of Wednesday afternoon, but it wouldn't be the first popular book about consensual incest. In 1997, novelist Kathryn Harrison had a best-seller with The Kiss
, a memoir about her affair with her father.