Also: probably the worse wikipedia page to accidentally send to the family group chat 👀
I’m tempted to send this to the family group chat.
that is such an italian thing to do
The Lucrezia Borgia clause
xD
The population of Iceland is so small, they have a special app to consult when two people meet, so they can figure out if they are too closely related.
Must make single bars awkward:
“Are you from the South? Because you’re the only Tennessee!”
“Yeah, okay Buster, lemme stop you right there. How do you spell your last name?”
That app thing is apparently not true. Someone did make an app like that but it was never a big thing, some trash news just found out about it and made great headlines out of it
My story is better.
Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.
Doesn’t Iceland still follow the tradition of using the father’s first name followed by “son” or “dottir” for their “last names”?
So, when a Jonson meets a Jonsdottir at a singles bar, they just know that they both have fathers named Jon (hopefully not the same one).
Eh if consenting adults want to fuck each other then who are we to care? I suppose the laws are to reduce the number of birth defects that the system has to help care for.
Marriage or even sex doesn’t imply pregnancy, but even if it does, if you start legally banning people from procreating based on the possibility of birth defects, you start having to consider other banning people who have conditions they had no control over from procreating. It’s an ethical quagmire.
Then you have the really weird combos like Jamaica that forbids same-sex couples (regardless of incest) but allows opposite-sex couples (also regardless of incest). So it’s okay for John to fuck his sister but not his brother.
Look at Ireland or Germany 👀
Makes more sense if you’re simply trying to avoid offspring from close relatives. John fucking his brother won’t result in that after all.
I think it’s more the case that the moral panic didn’t think of that at the time the law was created. It’s not like you need a law to allow you anything, laws only forbid.
I think you may be right of the initial law not including same-sex relatives, but when I checked Sweden (the third country together with Ireland and Germany to allow same-sex incest) the law that includes the part about incestuous sex has been updated in 2022 without changing the wording.
The swedish law only makes vaginal sex illegal btw, so in Sweden it’s okay for John to fuck his sister too, but only in the ass?No, oral is fine too. Better than the loophole.
Fucking in an uncomfortable place?
Like the back of a Volkswagen?
True!
About marriage between cousins: Historically, the christian church has forbidden marriage between even very distant cousins. Intended or not, this has dismantled the power of large family clans.
Over centuries this has a clear effect on psychology: more individualism, a higher willingness to trust strangers (cooperation between non-relatives) and more. Joseph Henrich (anthropologist) has a whole book about this called The WEIRDest People in the World .
When I got US Citizenship, my mom joked about that I should “marry my cousin¹ in China so she could get a green card” (this was like 2016)
¹she meant like her sister’s daughter
I was like:
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WTF mom, that’s disgusting, pretty sure marrying a cousin is a crime. (well it is in the us)
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Also, it’s marriage immigration fraud.
wtf is that “joke” lmfao, does she want me ending up in prison or something?
Only in most of the US. Some states are very libertine about first cousin marriage
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Morality is what we make it be:
Unfortunately I guess its okay to murder me for thinking that way.
I mean, we don’t yet definitively know of any other places with life, which sharply limits the number of other potential places about where the Creator might be concerned about genitals going on unapproved adventures.
Sitting on a tree I would still have the same opinion.
So there’s only a sphere of observable universe surrounding us where we can only see the distant past of each of those dots. But beyond that, the universe could be infinite.
And each of those dots is billions of star systems like ours:
Yeah, I’m gonna play with my pee pee thank you very much lol.
Germany: no unless same gender. Which opens uncomfortable doors in combination with being able to change your legal gender.
Iran forcing you to transition to have sex with your assigned sex, meets germany forcing you to transition to have sex with your brother.
Many Western European countries too, such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain!
Wtf France? Lol
Illegal (mostly) in the “land of the free.” Fascinating.
You know the saying “behind every sign there’s a story”? It may apply to laws as well.
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas…
It’s more likely that before humanity got enough of its brain together to make it outlawed in majority of countries, we as a species, have probably fucked eachother in a family for years.
But just because that is plausible, doesn’t make it any more right to do.
I found some interesting papers on this subject a few years back.
Statistically humans have the highest rate of fecundity with 3rd-4th cousins. Close enough to ensure genetic compatibility, far enough away to avoid deletetious recessive alleles popping up.
This makes sense when you think about the small groups that most humans have traditionally lived in.
Quit trying to justify your kink.
