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FTA >‘It is routine to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious’: This is how we do it in Iceland >When Sigrún checked out he

FTA >‘It is routine to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious’: This is how we do it in Iceland >When Sigrún checked out her family tree online, it wasn’t to find out if she and Einar were related – it was how closely related then the article starts talking about their sex-life...

ainiriand 2y ago
Yeah it is super weird. What a disaster.
- readthenotes1 2y ago
  Although it may have been propaganda, the line about not having to worry about the pile of clothes leading to better sex is pretty darn compelling...
bell-cot 2y ago
That's SOP for The Guardian's regular "This is How We Do It" articles: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/this-is-how-we-do-it-around-the-world-a-sex-special https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/this-is-how-... [NOTE: Both the original article and the above link probably should be flagged as NSFW.]
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Where do you work that either of these would be Not Safe? [in AF 632, humans being viviparous and reproducing in vivo instead of in vitro may be considered smut, but AFAIK we're not in that world, and none of our coworkers were born in a bottle, either?]
  - bell-cot 2y ago
    Specific to my workplace, neither one is NSFW. But between the cartoon nude images and frank sexual content - folks who work in educational settings, or more prudish or locked-down settings in general, might prefer to know that the content could bring them unfavorable attention.
fuzzfactor 2y ago
>it was how closely related When the first colonists settled in the Smoky Mountains of western Carolina, they were few and far between but turned it into hillbilly country, and they remained fairly isolated for generations. Reproducing at a rate in excess of additional settlers arriving, and raising children faster than educational materials could be mustered up the mountain to maintain literacy. There were so few options for most people a courting, and such slimmer odds of marrying someone completely unrelated, after a while many people didn't really care that much how closely related they were or bother to ask about it.

ainiriand 2y ago

Yeah it is super weird. What a disaster.

readthenotes1 2y ago
Although it may have been propaganda, the line about not having to worry about the pile of clothes leading to better sex is pretty darn compelling...

bell-cot 2y ago

That's SOP for The Guardian's regular "This is How We Do It" articles: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/this-is-how-we-do-it-around-the-world-a-sex-special https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/this-is-how-... [NOTE: Both the original article and the above link probably should be flagged as NSFW.]

082349872349872 2y ago
Where do you work that either of these would be Not Safe? [in AF 632, humans being viviparous and reproducing in vivo instead of in vitro may be considered smut, but AFAIK we're not in that world, and none of our coworkers were born in a bottle, either?]
- bell-cot 2y ago
  Specific to my workplace, neither one is NSFW. But between the cartoon nude images and frank sexual content - folks who work in educational settings, or more prudish or locked-down settings in general, might prefer to know that the content could bring them unfavorable attention.

fuzzfactor 2y ago

>it was how closely related When the first colonists settled in the Smoky Mountains of western Carolina, they were few and far between but turned it into hillbilly country, and they remained fairly isolated for generations. Reproducing at a rate in excess of additional settlers arriving, and raising children faster than educational materials could be mustered up the mountain to maintain literacy. There were so few options for most people a courting, and such slimmer odds of marrying someone completely unrelated, after a while many people didn't really care that much how closely related they were or bother to ask about it.