banjos silently play in the background
Anon meets a girl at a wedding
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OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
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
olosta@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Second degree cousins
I can’t stop laughing.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And if my maths is correct, you only share on average 12.5% of your DNA with them
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Groups often came together to party and marry people.
There are even rules, like exogamy is common.
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….
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s weird: genetically similiar people are more attractive but bigger genetical difference is better.
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yes, one of the primary components of attraction is familiarity. Also proximity and similarity.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Well there was that movie, Code 46.
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 week ago
That happened to a few of my cousins years ago. We were at a family function so I thought they would’ve put two and two together, but alas.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A few? Not just two??
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I saw that after pressing send and thought to myself, ah, no one’ll pull me up on that.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They just got a good vibe, you know?
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is how anons are conceived.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Second cousins is kissing cousins, have at it!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Second cousins hardly matters. Even 1st cousins only increase the chance of anomaly by 3%. 2nd cousins is background noise. If you make each other happy, go for it and let anyone who complains enjoy their divorces.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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 dony 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
DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Oh man we did the Hapsburgs in my genetics class and it’s so fucking gross how closely related those incestuous fucks were.
0ops@lemm.ee 1 week ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not comfortable condemning them for their crippling genetic disabilities (except where they perpetuate it), but they did do the majority of leading countries involved in WWI. And not only do these fucks still have money, they fund modern fascist movements and hateful propaganda as well as still being politically influential. The head of the family is an ambassador for the country his family took from superpower to “I could’ve sworn you were the kangaroo country”
rabber@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
If that’s true then why do a lot of people only date the same race as them
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Racism
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah you often strive for maximum compatible difference. There’s no instinct to create a family ladder
nifty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eh second cousin marriage isn’t a big deal in some cultures
BruceLee@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
*Most of cultures
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Stop watching porn
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No.
nifty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This isn’t even kinky, you vanilla bean
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
What is a second cousin? Your cousins cousin? The person your aunt/uncle marrieds niece/nephew? That can’t be right, that’s not blood. Help! Lol
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Then its not even an issue at all from a genetic standpoint. People might find their relationship weird but their children would turn out healthy.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That is helpful, thanks
x00z@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Where do we draw the line when a cousin becomes acceptable? I want a clear number
nuzkie@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Meanwhile the Chinese need a calculator to find out what to call their father’s sister’s daughter’s husband’s father
proudblond@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My aunt’s kid is my cousin. My cousin’s kid and my kid are second cousins.
It’s essentially finding the most recent common ancestor. My cousins and I share grandparents. Second cousins share great-grandparents, and so on.
“Once removed” and such refers to generational differences. So, my first cousin’s kid is my first cousin once removed, and my kid’s second cousin.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Gotcha. I was thinking across the tree, not down it. Thank you
damo_omad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m pretty sure it’s the children of your parent’s cousins
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
What is a second cousin?
Someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a great grandparent to both of you.
Like how a first cousin is someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a grandparent to both of you (aka you both have a same grandparent but not a same parent - meaning one of each of your parents are siblings with each other).
If the most recent common ancestor isn’t the same relation for both of you, then there’s probably a “times removed” or one of you is some variety of aunt/uncle to the other.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Thanks for ignoring the edit on my comment.
dumbass@leminal.space 1 week ago
Your Nan’s sisters granddaughter
Klear@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My not a number?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
Earflap@reddthat.com 1 week ago
This is the only one that isn’t fake
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Oh hey look. The story of how Rudy Giuliani found his wife!
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kissin cousins has always been a thing.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Erotic fan-fic at its finest.
gilarelli@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Careful anon, that’s how you get a Habsburg child
EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 1 week ago
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.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah even first cousins are actually not that bad, biologically speaking, if it’s only done for one (or probably even two?) generation.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
To be honest though, there’s always going to be a risk of birth defects if you’re having more than 30 kids.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Having children after 40 greatly increases chances of birth defects, I can only imagine what happens after hundreds of years.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And at this point, with all of the toxins from food processing/preservatives and the plastics getting into our bodies, the added risk is probably negligible.
schizolol9@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Hot as fuck tbh. Do as thy heart contents!
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Second cousins you don’t share even blood
Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Uh…yeah you do. Just not very much of it
scutiger@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t share my blood with anyone. You keep your grubby hands to yourself.
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Dude second cousin in my country is a cousin from the part not related to any of my parents of one of my cousins
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
In the country this post was most lilely typed, your second cousin is the cousin of your mom or dad. That’s what’s weird of that
Curufeanor@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The child of the cousin of your mom or dad actually
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 1 week ago
Heh, second cousin is far enough.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Second cousin means cousin second order (grandchild of a sibling of one of your grandparents), right?
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Yes
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Another way I like to think of it is it’s your parent’s cousin’s kid. So you can see why from their perspective it would feel more closely related, it would be like you having a kid and your cousin having a kid and then you seeing them together.
ReeferPirate@lemy.lol 1 week ago
A parent’s first cousin