First Cousins, Marriageable?

Adaptation makes us different.
People in tropical place usually has colored skin when people in South/north pole has white skin.

 

yes as tirith says these are minor traits adopted through different environment and time

 

Hmmz... I don't know, my fam is pretty close so that would be like marrying a brother or so... I don't look at my cousins like that, it's family, so that would be pretty weird to me.

But lets say, you are not close to your family, maybe live in different states, in some strange coincidence you two meet, fall in love and then find out you are related... what would you do then??
I mean love is a strong thing and you do not choose who you fall in love with.

As for the same DNA ... Don't know anything about that
no matter who your partner/ family is there is always a change your baby has some sort of disability (is that how you say it in English??) it's not like you have a guarantee on a healthy baby if you play by the rules... right?

 

THere has been cases of people calling in love...and finding out they were seperated brother's and sisters from long ago and never met until a dna test was done (no idea how that came about).


THey still stayed together last I heard...just freaky..

 

lol now thats a story

 

ive seen this on tv.
they are not allowed to marry and if they have sex could go to prison

 

better

 

how much blood percent have you in common with your first cousin? and also with your half-sibling?

 

Half sibling: 50%
First cousin: 25%

 

What country is this?

Never knew this law...and this was something from my rather random memory, so...I got no idea.


I thought (again bad memory...) that they had 1 child...

 

this is in england, they were on a documentary i watched a while ago, there is more than 1 case though, this is just the one i watched.

 

Why the hell would I want to marry my cousin...? ???

 

Because i'm sexy.

 

Everyone is assuming the couple will reproduce after they get married. But I thought that after you get married you stop having sex with your spouse? Unless you're Amish or something.

According to a study by the [American] National Society of Genetic Counselors, "beyond a thorough medical family history with follow-up of significant findings, no additional preconception screening is recommended for consanguineous couples. They should, of course, be offered genetic screening tests that would routinely be offered to other couples of their ethnic group."

In Japan, you're allowed to marry your first cousins, right? Anyone have any studies on that? I'd search for them myself but I'm too lazy.

 

no its the oral sex that stops

is this true? i would be interested to know

 

to close for me and if anyone had feelings for thier first cousin
well ... i dont know thats just strange

 

I think vaginas are strange, too! I mean, they're so slimy, and there are so many folds, and they're so cavernous and dark and scary and a freaky shade of... pinkish. And they smell weird, and you always feel like there's a monster in there waiting for someone to stick their hand in, and then you pull your hand out but it's just a bloody stump! AAAAH!

 

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okay

 

Some people do not live anywhere near their cousins. If you are not exposed to family members on a regular basis, when you meet them they are just other people.

I didn't meet most of my cousins until I was 15 (I lived on the other side of the country, my father was in the Navy). I met a second cousin for the first time when I was 17 in High School. She was a cheerleader for the football team, I was a football player. We had a class together and I helped her out with a few of her computer programs. She didn't look anything like me, she was 1/4 Japanese. Me and my friends talked about how attractive she was. A few months later I go to the first family reunion I've been to, and she comes walking out of my grandmother's brother's house. My grandmother's brother was stationed in Japan and married a Japanese woman who was the sister of one of the guys he stayed with. So the entire line of his family is half/quarter Japanese and looks nothing like the rest of my family.

It's human nature to not develop sexual feelings for close family members, it is built into our brains. Nature knows that close incest is bad for the species. But if you are not exposed to those close relatives regularly, those feelings of non-sexuality never develop. When you meet someone for the first time while sexually mature, feelings can develop towards the other regardless of how closely they are related to you.

 

I'm just saying that "It's weird" shouldn't be a reason to make things illegal.

I like facts that are cold and hard... But so far I haven't seen many of them cited in this debate.