Poll of the Day > So my cousin almost kissed his other cousin.

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From my cousin in laws side of the family.

They went to the same school and everything, and at some point they ended up going out with each other.

I dont know the whole story, but it they both ended up knowing that they were cousins broke up immedietly afterward.

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So did they fuck or what?

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wwinterj25 posted...

So did they fuck or what?

Yes, that is what he said, they broke up immediatly afterwards.

Turns out cousin sex isn't very good.

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If they liked each other and everything was consensual why let societal dogma dictate who they can and can't see? Them being cousins, especially since they weren't initially aware of the fact, was a nonissue.

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wolfy42 posted...

Turns out cousin sex isn't very good.

Turns out the rest of the word ain't that fussed.
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Literally everyone on Earth is the cousin of everyone else. Ain't no thang.
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wolfy42 posted...

Yes, that is what he said, they broke up immediatly afterwards.

Turns out cousin sex isn't very good.

I don't know; I had a cousin by marriage that really knew how to kiss. I'm sure she could rock someone's world

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Literally everyone on Earth is the cousin of everyone else. Ain't no thang.

On average. In practice, some places everyone is a half-sibling, some places blood don't mix at all.
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If they live close enough to go to the same school then how do they not know they're cousins?

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

If they live close enough to go to the same school then how do they not know they're cousins?

I wonder about that kind of thing. Guess it varies from case to case. Had a friend who started dating a classmate in 10th grade and his parents met her. They said "what the fucks wrong with you, boy? That's your cousin!" Apparently he had cousins he never knew about or met. His parents didn't get along with most of the other family members, so they just wrote them off.

Thankfully, he never went further than making out.

How closely related are they? 1st cousin? 1st cousin once removed? Second cousin? Second cousin once removed? Second cousin twice removed? So many possibilities.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

On average. In practice, some places everyone is a half-sibling, some places blood don't mix at all.

No. Literally. As in literally literally, not figuratively literally.

On every single human being alive today's family tree, if you go back far enough, you will hit someone who is in every single tree. By the technical definition of the word, we are all cousins. The only relationship you will ever have with another human who is NOT your cousin is if they're even closer in degree (parents, siblings, children, etc).

And I'm not talking Biblical stories here, I'm talking legitimate science. Look up Y-Chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. Every human alive is related to every other human.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

No. Literally. As in literally literally, not figuratively literally.

On every single human being alive today's family tree, if you go back far enough, you will hit someone who is in every single tree. By the technical definition of the word, we are all cousins. The only relationship you will ever have with another human who is NOT your cousin is if they're even closer in degree (parents, siblings, children, etc).

And I'm not talking Biblical stories here, I'm talking legitimate science. Look up Y-Chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. Every human alive is related to every other human.

Very obviously the people here are using cousin in the most well known and common meaning of "the child of a parent's sibling". Any other meaning is phrased differently like second cousin. You can't be so obtuse you didn't realize this, or that fact that all humans are tangentially related is common knowledge right?

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Dreaming_King posted...

If they liked each other and everything was consensual why let societal dogma dictate who they can and can't see? Them being cousins, especially since they weren't initially aware of the fact, was a nonissue.

Except for, you know, the obvious problems of inbreeding. But, yeah sure, there's exactly zero reason not to do this.

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papercup posted...

Except for, you know, the obvious problems of inbreeding. But, yeah sure, there's exactly zero reason not to do this.

"incest" =/= inbreeding. Two cousins having a child would not increase the chance of detrimental mutations or disease by any noticeable amount.

There are plenty of unrelated couples who share similar negative traits like certain mental illnesses or mutations that are far more likely to be passed onto their children and yet that isn't illegal or frowned upon is it? There are even some fatal hereditary illnesses, the parents carrying them dooming their child to die young if they have one but that's fine right? Beyond that, what if two cousins just love each other but don't want children, or want to adopt? What would your argument against their union be then, that it's "icky"?

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