MSPs took just over a minute to reject a call to change the law against incest so it no longer applies to consenting adults over the age of 21.
Michael McMahon, the convener of Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee said there "no indication at all" of support for such a change.
Richard Morris had put forward a petition calling on ministers "to amend the law against incest so that it is not applicable in the cases where participants are both consenting adults over the age of 21".
In a written submission he claimed the current law "does unnecessarily and unfairly punish consensual adult incest, breaching the rights to sexual autonomy for all consenting adults that is accepted in other more developed countries".
Mr Morris added: "Children are protected from sexual and other abuse by other laws, and there is no need for the double criminalisation of the offence."
But members of Holyrood's Public Petitions Committee agreed there was "no value in taking this petition forward" as the majority of people support the current legislation.
Committee convener Michael McMahon said that the Scottish Law Commission had considered the issue as recently as 2007, saying that "the majority view at that time concluded in favour of retaining the offence and the current definition".
He added: "There isn't any value in taking this petition forward, because I can't see that that position would have changed in the intervening period.
"I have no indication at all that there is any desire to see that change."
Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw stated: "Having read the detail of the petition I don't think an argument is made that would justify a public interest being served in this petition continuing."
The committee agreed to close the petition.
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