Incest - Page 4

Cicero · 02-11-2008, 04:33 PM

HM...I was being nasty (and apologized)...leave it alone...
It wasn't an actual question.

I wish I could bury posts and put up a headstone.

monster · 02-11-2008, 07:11 PM

Cic you're fine, fuggedaboud it. dig deep enough -we all have threads and posts we'd rather forget on here....

and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

DucksNuts · 02-11-2008, 07:39 PM

Shawnee

classicman · 02-11-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Cic you're fine, fuggedaboud it. dig deep enough -we all have threads and posts we'd rather forget on here....

and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

xoxoxoBruce · 02-12-2008, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister...

Sooo, banana lady was your Mum.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-12-2008, 12:57 AM

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

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The results of the exhaustive study are constant throughout the generations analyzed. Women born between 1800 and 1824 who mated with a third cousin had significantly more children and grandchildren (4.04 and 9.17, respectively) than women who hooked up with someone no closer than an eighth cousin (3.34 and 7.31). Those proportions held up among women born more than a century later when couples were, on average, having fewer children.

Despite the general pattern for reproductive success favoring close kinship, couples that were second cousins or more closely related did not have as many children. The most likely reason, scientists say: offspring of such close relatives were likely to have much shorter life spans, because of the chance of inheriting harmful genetic mutations.

"With close inbreeding—between first cousins—there is a significant increase in the probability that both partners will share one or more detrimental recessive genes, leading to a 25 percent chance that these genes will be expressed in each pregnancy," says Alan Bittles, director of the Center for Human Genetics at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia, who was not involved in the study.

Interestingly, one evolutionary argument for mating with a relative is that it might reduce a woman's chance of having a miscarriage caused by immunological incompatibility between a mother and her child. Some individuals have an antigen (a protein that can launch an immune response) on the surface of their red blood cells called a rhesus factor—commonly abbreviated "Rh." In some cases—typically during a second pregnancy—when a woman gets pregnant, she and her fetus may have incompatible blood cells, which could trigger the mother's immune system to treat the fetus as a foreign intruder, causing a miscarriage. This occurrence is less probable if the parents are closely related, because their blood makeup is more likely to match.

Trilby · 02-20-2008, 11:51 AM

I've not read one thing in this thread but has anybody mentioned that Incest is Best? Coz that's the word on the street.

jinx · 02-20-2008, 12:02 PM

"I'm going steady and I french kiss."
"So? Everybody does that."
"Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it."

HungLikeJesus · 02-20-2008, 12:09 PM

Incest is best
Give your sister the test.

You mean like that?

Shawnee123 · 02-20-2008, 12:16 PM

I always heard it

Incest is best
Put your (insert relative here) to the test.

I didn't want to say it earlier because, you know, selective defensiveness and all.

Aliantha · 02-20-2008, 03:55 PM

I wonder if it's a nature or nurture thing that makes most of us say 'yuck' to the idea of playing silly buggers with our relatives.

HungLikeJesus · 02-20-2008, 03:57 PM

Incest among animals is very common, so I would say that our reaction is learned.

SteveDallas · 02-20-2008, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Incest among animals is very common, so I would say that our reaction is learned.

I don't doubt there's a lot of truth in that. But it seems like a tendency to inbreed would be undesirable from an evolutionary standpoint... in the long run wouldn't those who went out and mixed up the gene pool win out? So I would think there is some biological basis to it.

HungLikeJesus · 02-20-2008, 05:59 PM

A recent study (sorry, I don't have a link) found that, in areas where incest is common, people lived longer.

SteveDallas · 02-20-2008, 08:02 PM

I'd love to see that... if for no other reason than to see which areas those are!

02-11-2008, 04:33 PM	#46
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	HM...I was being nasty (and apologized)...leave it alone... It wasn't an actual question. I wish I could bury posts and put up a headstone. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

02-11-2008, 07:11 PM	#47
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Cic you're fine, fuggedaboud it. dig deep enough -we all have threads and posts we'd rather forget on here.... and beest and I hadn't exactly advertised that we were brother and sister... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-20-2008, 12:02 PM	#53
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	"I'm going steady and I french kiss." "So? Everybody does that." "Yeah, but Daddy says I'm the best at it." __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

02-20-2008, 12:09 PM	#54
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Incest is best Give your sister the test. You mean like that? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

02-20-2008, 03:55 PM	#56
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I wonder if it's a nature or nurture thing that makes most of us say 'yuck' to the idea of playing silly buggers with our relatives. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-11-2008, 07:39 PM	#48
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Shawnee

02-20-2008, 11:51 AM	#52
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I've not read one thing in this thread but has anybody mentioned that Incest is Best? Coz that's the word on the street.

02-20-2008, 12:16 PM	#55
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I always heard it Incest is best Put your (insert relative here) to the test. I didn't want to say it earlier because, you know, selective defensiveness and all.

02-20-2008, 03:57 PM	#57
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Incest among animals is very common, so I would say that our reaction is learned. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

02-20-2008, 05:59 PM	#59
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	A recent study (sorry, I don't have a link) found that, in areas where incest is common, people lived longer. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

02-20-2008, 08:02 PM	#60
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I'd love to see that... if for no other reason than to see which areas those are!

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