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Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

All I could find on this is something called “genetic sexual attraction” ^[1]^, though Wikipedia contains arguments that it’s pseudoscience ^[1.1]^. Here is a Reddit post asking about this. ^[3]^.

Related to this, I also came across the “Westermarck effect” which appears to suggest that people who grow up together are less likely to be romantically attracted to each other ^[2]^.

References

1. “Genetic sexual attraction”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-14T18:46Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:29Z. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction. 1. §“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”. 2. “Westermarck effect”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-09-26T14:09Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:33Z. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect. 3. "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. reddit.com/…/how_does_nature_prevent_us_from_feel….

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