How archaic the notion seems to us now. Yet, in hindsight, when one dispassionately views the drawling progeny of the great state of Arkansas, it does appear to make a good deal of sense.Initially intended as sweeping legislation to eradicate incest itself, coital prohibition was, unlike its inhabitants, unproductive.Like a small girl or a chain saw the good men of Arkansas could not leave it alone. They were bewitched and ensorcelled by a gleam and a challenge. Besides:
Fondness for moonshining caused a backwoods and swampy hatred of "revenuers" and all state and federal legislation. This hatred left them eager to breach any law even if the results were a spawn of Cooters and Bubbas. Each toothless grinning backwoods zealot is nothing more than the genetic expression of southern defiance.
Eventually, like prohibition, the law was repealed. The good
god-fearing breeders of Arkansas practised legally what the dictates of their sordid imagination forced out behind the lean-to.