Inbreeding: still bad.

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Marrying your cousin: still a bad thing, even among remote polygamous fundie enclaves:

Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 September 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any religions that allow polyaglamonomous marriages where it's not jus the man that can marry more than once?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why would any woman want more than one husband at any one time? All those socks to pick up off the floor, shirts to iron, meals to cook, etc etc. It'd be a logiistical nightmare to have to organise several husbands simultaneously.

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard this story before. It was on the X Files.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any religions that allow polyaglamonomous marriages where it's not jus the man that can marry more than once?

it's "polyandry" when there are multiple husbands, I believe. Personal experience only shows some overlap between pagans and polys.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I watched a documentary once about polyandry in remote parts of the Himalayas once. God it was boring.

― treefell (treefell), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

word

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Polyandry sounds like something a mom would yell out o'er the hills to call her kids home for dinner. PolyAAAAAAAAAAndry!

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

how did this moving not make cousin kissing OK?

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4306/rr0040kissingcousinspostersdf1.jpg

― katarina (katarina), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

umm...i guess that says 'hello, cousins!' but the american version was called 'kissing cousins'

ps the brunette was HAWWT

― katarina (katarina), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was doing my family tree and was horrified to discover that my maternal great-grandma's (my mother's mother's mother) parents were cousins. They had the same surname so I jokingly asked my grandma if they were related.... I wasn't happy with what I found out :(

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 3 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pathguy.com/oedipus_photo_s.jpg
I wasn't happy with what I found out :(

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 3 September 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

2 Parents: 4 Grandparents: 8 Great-Grandparents.

Allow 3 generations per century (generous that, I reckon), and keep working backwards. 10 centuries = 2 to the power 30 = 1,073,741,824 direct ancestors. Which I'm almost certain is a higher number than the total population of Earth in 1000 AD.

Which seems to lead to the conclusion that an ENORMOUS amount of inbreeding must have been going on, or there's a big hole in my logic that I haven't figured out yet.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 3 September 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissing_cousins#Cosanguinity

― W i l l (common_person), Sunday, 3 September 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Modal, I remember reading about the Experts using this
same meme to decide that everyone from western europe was descended from Charlemagne.

― Squirl Plise, Sunday, 3 September 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

That Charlemagne, he put it about a bit.

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 3 September 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Map_of_USA_with_Incest_Legality.svg

― jbr, Sunday, 3 September 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Diane Charlemagne from Urban Cookie Collective? Who knew??

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

good ol' John Stossel:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2395516&page=1

Cousins who fall in love have a right to voice concerns. After all, marrying a cousin just isn't done, right?

At least that's what we're taught to believe. Only primitive people who live in isolated places marry cousins, and it's dangerous and leads to creating stupid children.

Or does it? A new study reveals the genetic risks associated with this type of pairing are not as great as once believed.

And consider this — Albert Einstein's parents were cousins, and he married his cousin, too.

FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt were second cousins, so were Prince Albert and Queen Victoria and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was briefly married to a second cousin.

In America, marrying your cousin is legal in 25 states and every year about 200,000 cousins wed.

Worldwide, it's much more common. Twenty percent of all married couples are cousins. In some Middle Eastern countries, almost half of all marriages are to cousins...

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

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