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.
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.