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"Is there new legislation on this now?" Arrested Development aside, I had a crush on a cousin as a little kid and as an adult, I would absolutely date and/or h

• footy 3y ago
  This is interesting to me. Did you grow up seeing your cousins often? I saw most of my cousins at least once a week growing up, and even went to the same middle and high school as some of them—meaning I spent more time with them than I did my siblings. As an adult, the idea of being romantic with one of them is as off-putting as the idea of doing it with a sibling. I wonder how much of that is from growing up together.
  • standardUser 3y ago
    > Did you grow up seeing your cousins often? I did not! Only occasionally as a young child and a handful of times as an adult. That is probably key.
    • satvikpendem 3y ago
      > The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived with like siblings before the age of six. This hypothesis was first proposed by Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human Marriage (1891) as one explanation for the incest taboo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
• pictureofabear 3y ago
  Cousin marriages are still fairly common throughout the developing world.