[ SECRET POST #385 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #385 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Last day to submit for next week!!

...holy crap #36, I love you XDDDD

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Comments

[kilraaj.livejournal.com]

33. I think it'd depend...while most cultures have an incest taboo, the degree of acceptability varies (like whether first cousins marrying is acceptable or not). So unless the twins were identical (in which case I wonder how they didn't figure it out sooner!) I think it's still possible for the taboo to be rooted in biology and the couple in question might have been dissimilar enough because of the different genes they inherited that they didn't register any aversion.

[redseeker]

Hmm I don't really buy that. (I'm assuming they weren't, because - yeah... how slow can you be? XD) I guess you can't properly and definitively prove it either way, though.

No doubt first cousins marrying and such is a bad idea, though... Have you seen the royal family? XD

I wish I could remember what I was reading the other week... some really interesting theory stuff about exchange of property (and included in that, of women) as a way of establishing kinship networks in primitive societies providing a possible basis for the taboo. Not sure I buy that, either, but it was interesting reading.

[kilraaj.livejournal.com]

I just remember reading a few years back an article about how when given scents from people to sniff, people found more pleasing the samples that were taken from people that were more genetically dissimilar. (...it sounds like one of the weirdest experiments to participate in. XD)

I tried google to see if I could find the articles, but all I found was this article (http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/scent_of_family_guides_girls_m.php) about girls seeming to have an aversion to their dad's scent and the presence of a dad delaying the onset of the daughters' puberty.

I do think specific taboos, like "no, you should never marry your first cousin/second cousin/aunt/uncle/whatever" are determined by society (my biology teacher explained once that the royal families' troubles with hemophilia weren't due to intermarriage, since it only popped up in the men), but I also think there is a biological cause behind it.

[redseeker]

I think I heard about that. I also read somewhere (which is a bit weird) that girls are more likely to be attracted to men who share characteristics with their fathers. Which made me go o.O

Sure there'll be a biological reason not to do something (like this), but I'm not sure about slapping a big "morality" label on it.

[elwing-alcyone.livejournal.com]

I think it's still possible for the taboo to be rooted in biology and the couple in question might have been dissimilar enough because of the different genes they inherited that they didn't register any aversion.

I think it's the other way around. Sexual attraction between relatives who were separated at birth and reunited is extremely common, much more than people realise. The experts who've studied the phenomenon seem to think it's the similarity between the two that causes the fascination. Here's (http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,956454,00.html) a pretty in-depth article about it, if you're interested.

[kilraaj.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty interesting article; I hadn't heard of GSA before. Thanks for the link.