The ancient world was a much smaller world. You might only know the 50 people from your village your whole life and 1/3rd of that is children and the elderly. And, I mean, if your sisters bad with it and you don’t have God watching, who’s gonna know?
To be serious and not joke, iirc there’s a psych phenomenon that describes sexual revulsion to people that you spent your formative years with as a mechanism of separating out relatives and potential partners even at the subconscious level. Weird stories of cousin fuckery and long lost sibling relationships abound because they didn’t actually grow up together despite the blood relation. And idk what brain folds effect the kink gene but god knows what’s going on with the people actually fetishizing incest for incest’s sake
Sorta kinda. There seems to be a mechanism where we're less likely to be attracted to people we grew up with, like in the same household with, but it's not 100%.
But there's no mechanism that makes you recognize that you're closely related to them on sight. It's mostly cultural taboos that keep people from marrying their siblings or first cousins. Marrying siblings is very rare afaik, but first cousin marriage has showed up all over the place, including European cultures until like the 19th century.
If it isn't 100% it's really, really close. Authentic attraction between family members who grew up together is basically unheard of. Every incestuous relationship that isn't entirely one-sided grooming is between estranged relatives.
It's very rare for the marriage pool of a group to be only fifty people. Even pretty isolated people would probably be in contact with thousands of other people over the course of the year if they were semi-nomadic, or at faires and other festivals and gatherings.
Probably not like... 50, but even in a small town of a couple of thousand people, you're going to be interacting with 1st, second, and third cousins pretty regularly. I have a friend from an old family in a small modern town of 15k, and she said that dating in highschool was actually kinda fraught because of this.
I think that level of incest is actually way more common than our modern sensibilities would suggest. It isn't siblings fucking or anything.
The ancient world was a much smaller world. You might only know the 50 people from your village your whole life and 1/3rd of that is children and the elderly. And, I mean, if your sisters bad with it and you don’t have God watching, who’s gonna know?
I'm gonna know dude. Is it not a universal thing to have some revulsion to incest?
To be serious and not joke, iirc there’s a psych phenomenon that describes sexual revulsion to people that you spent your formative years with as a mechanism of separating out relatives and potential partners even at the subconscious level. Weird stories of cousin fuckery and long lost sibling relationships abound because they didn’t actually grow up together despite the blood relation. And idk what brain folds effect the kink gene but god knows what’s going on with the people actually fetishizing incest for incest’s sake
It's called the Westermarck Effect and I'm pretty sure it's backed by evidence
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surely not truly universal but definitely a majority of people are not into siblings.
but hey there's always cousins :shrug-outta-hecks:
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Sorta kinda. There seems to be a mechanism where we're less likely to be attracted to people we grew up with, like in the same household with, but it's not 100%.
But there's no mechanism that makes you recognize that you're closely related to them on sight. It's mostly cultural taboos that keep people from marrying their siblings or first cousins. Marrying siblings is very rare afaik, but first cousin marriage has showed up all over the place, including European cultures until like the 19th century.
If it isn't 100% it's really, really close. Authentic attraction between family members who grew up together is basically unheard of. Every incestuous relationship that isn't entirely one-sided grooming is between estranged relatives.
: p Being a Ptolemaic Egyptian royal must have sucked, then.
It's very rare for the marriage pool of a group to be only fifty people. Even pretty isolated people would probably be in contact with thousands of other people over the course of the year if they were semi-nomadic, or at faires and other festivals and gatherings.
Probably not like... 50, but even in a small town of a couple of thousand people, you're going to be interacting with 1st, second, and third cousins pretty regularly. I have a friend from an old family in a small modern town of 15k, and she said that dating in highschool was actually kinda fraught because of this.
I think that level of incest is actually way more common than our modern sensibilities would suggest. It isn't siblings fucking or anything.