banjos silently play in the background
Anon meets a girl at a wedding
Submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Softly in the night
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Beetles in the firelight
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Second degree cousins
I can’t stop laughing.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And if my maths is correct, you only share on average 12.5% of your DNA with them
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Groups often came together to party and marry people.
There are even rules, like exogamy is common.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah, that’s weird: genetically similiar people are more attractive but bigger genetical difference is better.
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yes, one of the primary components of attraction is familiarity. Also proximity and similarity.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Well there was that movie, Code 46.
MadBob@feddit.nl 2 months 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 2 months ago
A few? Not just two??
MadBob@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I saw that after pressing send and thought to myself, ah, no one’ll pull me up on that.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They just got a good vibe, you know?
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is how anons are conceived.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Second cousins is kissing cousins, have at it!
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months 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”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah you often strive for maximum compatible difference. There’s no instinct to create a family ladder
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If that’s true then why do a lot of people only date the same race as them
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Racism
nifty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eh second cousin marriage isn’t a big deal in some cultures
BruceLee@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
*Most of cultures
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Stop watching porn
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No.
nifty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This isn’t even kinky, you vanilla bean
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months 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 2 months ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
That is helpful, thanks
x00z@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where do we draw the line when a cousin becomes acceptable? I want a clear number
nuzkie@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Gotcha. I was thinking across the tree, not down it. Thank you
damo_omad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure it’s the children of your parent’s cousins
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
Thanks for ignoring the edit on my comment.
dumbass@leminal.space 2 months ago
Your Nan’s sisters granddaughter
Klear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My not a number?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
This is the only one that isn’t fake
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Oh hey look. The story of how Rudy Giuliani found his wife!
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kissin cousins has always been a thing.
gilarelli@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Careful anon, that’s how you get a Habsburg child
EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Having children after 40 greatly increases chances of birth defects, I can only imagine what happens after hundreds of years.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Erotic fan-fic at its finest.
schizolol9@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Hot as fuck tbh. Do as thy heart contents!
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Second cousins you don’t share even blood
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Uh…yeah you do. Just not very much of it
scutiger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t share my blood with anyone. You keep your grubby hands to yourself.
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
The child of the cousin of your mom or dad actually
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Heh, second cousin is far enough.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Second cousin means cousin second order (grandchild of a sibling of one of your grandparents), right?
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
A parent’s first cousin