Would you sleep with your cousin?

Typedef · 26-02-2002 03:07AM

Banjo twangs

I think the question should be:
How long has it been and are you really so desperate for a woman that you have to hit on your own cousin..... oh and ever hear of the Romanov's?..... Tasty!

billy the squid · 26-02-2002 04:10AM

nah dont even like my cousins

Karl Hungus · 26-02-2002 07:01AM

I'd say yes, but I don't think I'd want to piss off my cousin Frank. :eek: :eek: :eek:

BlackMagic · 26-02-2002 11:00AM

Jesus i know its legal but i still woudnt do it :cool:

halkar · 26-02-2002 11:02AM

Vote YES for ABORTION!!!!

Looks like we will need it!!!

Walls · 26-02-2002 11:04AM

Originally posted by azezil

male / female / both?

That says a lot!

bubbles · 26-02-2002 01:28PM

Poll is very close.... as I imagined. Least I know I'm not that ****ed up now

BigMac · 26-02-2002 01:51PM

My cousin slept with my other cousin at a family re-union........
Full marks to him she was well fit..... and a far out cousin that lives in Aus or somewhere, its not as if we are going to see her very often.
Personally no... not knowingly!!!!!

kayos · 26-02-2002 02:05PM

Good god no Kharns not my type

But on a more serious note I would still say no. I can not really explain why (just can not put it in words) but I must have some reason

kayos

neuro-praxis · 26-02-2002 02:49PM

I remember reading a while back that it's a bit of a myth that your children will be deformed if you sleep with a sibling or a cousin. It's deeper into the family - like second or third cousins - where problems arise, apparently. I could be wrong, though - can anyone provide facts? I know for definite anyway that in some tribes the perfect sex partner for a 16 year old boy (for his first time) is his father's sister. Also in these tribes, the person they are expected to marry is their cross-cousin - eg. if it is a boy - then he is supposed to marry his mother's brother's daughter. And they don't produce deformed children at all.

Check this out, just out of interest.

http://www.mg.co.za/mg/za/archive/2002jan/features/22jan-forbidden.html

As for me - when I was about 9, I had a crush on my handsome much-older cousin. He's now in Mountjoy though, so I think a relationship is out of the question.

No seriously, I don't think I would. it would freak out the family and besides, none of my cousins are attractive to me.

kiffer · 26-02-2002 04:49PM

Originally posted by neuro-praxis
I remember reading a while back that it's a bit of a myth that your children will be deformed if you sleep with a sibling or a cousin. It's deeper into the family - like second or third cousins - where problems arise, apparently. I could be wrong, though - can anyone provide facts? I know for definite anyway that in some tribes the perfect sex partner for a 16 year old boy (for his first time) is his father's sister. Also in these tribes, the person they are expected to marry is their cross-cousin - eg. if it is a boy - then he is supposed to marry his mother's brother's daughter. And they don't produce deformed children at all.

inbreeding increases the chance of a defect showing up, one generation of inbreeding is unlikly to cause a defect that would not turn up in children of non inbred parents... however in cases of heavyer inbreeding, damage starts to show up more... just look a "pure" breed dogs...

children of brother/sister matches have an increased chance of developing any thing that their perents are carring, but if the brother/sisters dont have many defects then the chance of one showing up is slim...

children of first cousins are less likly to have defects, than brothersister children.

children of second(or higher) cousins are even less likly to have problems...

and once(or twice) removed means cousin by marage and usualy is the same as a total stranger ...

having said all this, each time there is inbreeding the chnces of a defect are going to go up ... which means more people carrying the defect meaning more chances of an inbreed child devleoping a problem... see point on brother/sister children

all in all from a biological point of veiw a small amount of inbreeding is ok... sometimes handy ...as it increases the chance of a good mutaion carring on as well as a bad... but as we've lost those things that would cull out dangerous mutations , its not adviseable ...

Hum but from a moral point of veiw you do have to ask, if there are no children invlolved (its just sex wth no repoduction) then is is ok?... I would have to say it's a perversion ... but what is'nt :-)

strat · 26-02-2002 05:12PM

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Victor · 26-02-2002 05:13PM

Originally posted by kiffer
children of brother/sister matches have an increased chance of developing any thing that their perents are carring, but if the brother/sisters dont have many defects then the chance of one showing up is slim...

This is, of course, illegal, even to just have the sex.

Apparently one of the British royals married his cousin, they only had 4 grandparents between them (as opposed to eight). A number of the resulting children weren't acknowledged to exist until they were in their 70s, due to their medical / genetic condition.

Aspro · 26-02-2002 05:16PM

No, but I'd sleep with yours:)

EvilGeorge · 26-02-2002 05:23PM

This reminds me of a simpsons episode.

kiffer · 26-02-2002 05:28PM

Originally posted by Victor

This is, of course, illegal, even to just have the sex.

this is why i said from a biological point of view...

Originally posted by Victor

Apparently one of the British royals married his cousin, they only had 4 grandparents between them (as opposed to eight). A number of the resulting children weren't acknowledged to exist until they were in their 70s, due to their medical / genetic condition.

Apparently one of the British royals married his cousin? Apparently???
most of the royal famialys from around europe are related ... Inbreeding is a hugh problem amounst them... not becaues they often marrying first cousins but because they're all distant (and not so distant) cousins ...
so when they do marry first cousins they are already messed up and carring defects... increasing the chance of major problems...

Beruthiel · 26-02-2002 05:42PM

the book "Flowers in the Attic" comes to mind!

Lemming · 26-02-2002 06:00PM

Originally posted by neuro-praxis
I remember reading a while back that it's a bit of a myth that your children will be deformed if you sleep with a sibling or a cousin. It's deeper into the family - like second or third cousins - where problems arise, apparently. I could be wrong, though - can anyone provide facts?

You've got it the wrong way around. The reason WHY shagging a family member or 1st cousin is illegal is all to do with genetics.

The further down the chain you go (2nd/3rd/34th) cousin the less likely deformaty is likely to occur.

po0k · 26-02-2002 06:03PM

1 step away from [EDIT](full-on)[/EDIT] incest.

No.

EvilGeorge · 26-02-2002 06:24PM

So anyone you know got webbed toes ??

Lemming · 26-02-2002 06:30PM

Originally posted by EvilGeorge
So anyone you know got webbed toes ??

Well now that I think about it ... uncle Cleatus had webbe...... EUWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw

Dont be at yourself · 26-02-2002 07:16PM

I still say keep it in the family.

The only argument levelled against it has been the chance of defects - but the chances of that happening with a cousin are fairly slim. Anyway, we're not talking about reproducing.

amp · 26-02-2002 07:59PM

Hmmm if Jerry Springer ever gives up the day job I feel Bubbles would be an ideal replacement.

TONIGHT ON BUBBLES:!

People who shag their fathers brothers daughter!

Bosco · 26-02-2002 08:44PM

NO!!...think of your poor Granny's face when she finds out her beloved grand-children are shagging each other. Poor Granny

smiles · 26-02-2002 09:01PM

I really dont think I would/could. theres something that just says..... "ick!" inside, probably cause i'm good friends with some of my cousins and dont really know the others (plus they're all old... i'm the youngest by about 6 years)

Originally posted by neuro-praxis
I remember reading a while back that it's a bit of a myth that your children will be deformed if you sleep with a sibling or a cousin. It's deeper into the family - like second or third cousins - where problems arise, apparently. I could be wrong, though - can anyone provide facts?

I heard that too... but i'm not sure where.

<< Fio >>

smiles · 26-02-2002 09:04PM

Originally posted by Victor

Apparently one of the British royals married his cousin, they only had 4 grandparents between them (as opposed to eight). A number of the resulting children weren't acknowledged to exist until they were in their 70s, due to their medical / genetic condition.

The British royal family and most of the other royal families in Europe are very closely blood related on many sides, i think the British ones were predominatly originally German (trust Britian to import it's royal family!)

<< Fio >>

Mills · 26-02-2002 10:06PM

Theoretically I can't think of any reason not to sleep with a cousin, but I don't have any cousins who I'd want to sleep with anyway. Oh and it'd have to be someone really hot, who I didn't know well, like a cousin from overseas that I didn't know.

Actually, just thinking about it now and the thought of sleeping with any relative at all really doesn't appeal to me, not sure why.

elexes · 26-02-2002 11:03PM

Originally posted by Beruthiel
the book "Flowers in the Attic" comes to mind!

it dose dosent it . well anyways . i would its not as if im geneticaly related to any of them

m1ke · 27-02-2002 01:27AM

if there's grass on the playing field............

Clinical Waste · 27-02-2002 08:30AM

As a small island dwelling community should be airing these things publicly to the world at large?

Would you sleep with your cousin?

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