Prager: "There's no secular argument against adult incest. Brother and sister want to make love, what's your argument? That they're going to produce mentally ret0rded offspring? That's nonsense. It takes many generations of inbreeding to do that."

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  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    It's fucking weird dude that's what's wrong with it. I don't need an academic argument against it.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Not to mention that the vast majority of incest is just straight-out rape, so there's that on top of it

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      As far as I understand "it's weird" is an actual psychological thing where people of roughly the same age who grow up together are less likely to be sexually attracted to each other, and the hypothesis is that this is an evolutionary advantage because it makes people seek out mates they are not closely related too.

      • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        The Westermarck effect. It was documented a fair bit among children in the kibbutz system, where the people growing up in it didn't want to marry each other because they saw them as siblings.