Heh, second cousin is far enough.
Second cousin means cousin second order (grandchild of a sibling of one of your grandparents), right?
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Isn't there some sort of biological thing where you're more likely to be sexually attracted to your relatives if you don't know they're you're relatives
Second degree cousins is not that close though. If every generation has three children, that's 27 persons. I thinks that for most of human history excluding second degree cousins from the acceptable partners pool would have been impossible. Communities were not that big.
All I could find on this is something called "genetic sexual attraction" [1], though Wikipedia contains arguments that it's pseudoscience [1.1]. Here's a Reddit post asking about this. [3].
Related to this, I also came across the "Westermarck effect" [2] which appears to suggest that people who grow up together are less likely to be romantically attracted to each other [2.1].
References
- "Genetic sexual attraction". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-14T18:46Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:29Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction.
- §"Criticism"
Critics of the hypothesis have called it pseudoscience. In a Salon piece, Amanda Marcotte called the concept "half-baked pseudoscientific nonsense that people dreamed up to justify continuing unhealthy, abusive relationships".[8] The use of "GSA" as an initialism has also been criticized, since it gives the notion that the phenomenon is an actual diagnosable "condition".
Many have noted the lack of research on the subject. While acknowledging the "phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction", Eric Anderson, a sociologist and sexologist, noted in a 2012 book that "[t]here is only one academic research article" on the subject, and he critiqued the paper for using "Freudian psycho-babble".
- §"Criticism"
- "Westermarck effect". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-09-26T14:09Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:33Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect.
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The Westermarck effect […] is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six.
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- "How does nature prevent us from feeling sexually attracted to relatives who are objectively sexually attractive? ". Author: "Morgentau7" (u/Morgentau7). "r/TooAfraidToAsk". Reddit. Published: 2024-09-25T17:50:08.227Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:34Z. https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/1fpaold/how_does_nature_prevent_us_from_feeling_sexually/.
- "Genetic sexual attraction". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-14T18:46Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:29Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction.
Yeah, that's weird: genetically similiar people are more attractive (as long as it isn't too similiar)(people in stable relationships often look alike) but bigger genetical difference is better.
Yes, one of the primary components of attraction is familiarity. Also proximity and similarity.
Second cousins is kissing cousins, have at it!
A lot of people here are saying that the more genetically similar you are to somebody, the more attractive they are (so long as you don't grow up with them). I'm here to tell you that those guys are completely wrong
Studies have shown that (in other animals unfortunately, not in humans) that the more genetically dissimilar two individuals are, the more attracted they are, so long as they can produce viable offspring (aka they can have kids)
This study would also be done on humans, but that would be slightly morally questionable
This is an evolutionary trait in order to incentivise us to increase the gene pool when possible. You can imagine what would happen if we only rucked our cousins (look at the royals)
Source: am biomed student
Yeah you often strive for maximum compatible difference. There's no instinct to create a family ladder
If that's true then why do a lot of people only date the same race as them
Racism
Eh second cousin marriage isn’t a big deal in some cultures
*Most of cultures
I used to work with this absolute idiot when I was a kid. He was married to his cousin. But apparently he was such a gross dude, that it was too much for her, so she left him. For his brother. She ended up having a couple kids, one with each brother.
Talk about going out of your way to keep it in the family. Their family tree was tied in a knot.
This is the only one that isn't fake
Oh hey look. The story of how Rudy Giuliani found his wife!
Edit: ex wife, sorry forgot the church didn't condone their boning like they wanted so they had to get a divorce.
Erotic fan-fic at its finest.
Careful anon, that's how you get a Habsburg child
I mean, probably not with a second cousin, unless you do it for hundreds of years. Greater risk of birth defects if you have children over 30.
Reminds me of the time I fucked my cousin a few times. She moved I now miss her.
Second cousins you don't share even blood
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Second cousin in my country is a cousin from the part not related to any of my parents of one of my cousins. What is weird of that?
For example, my cousin is one of my father's brother son, then my second cousin has to be (otherwise would be a cousin too) the daughter of the cousin's mother's brother.
If I pick a random girl I would be equally related genetically.
Uh...yeah you do. Just not very much of it
Dude second cousin in my country is a cousin from the part not related to any of my parents of one of my cousins. What is weird of that?
For example, my cousin is one of my father's brother son, then my second cousin has to be (otherwise would be a cousin too) the daughter of the cousin's mother's brother.
