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Heh, second cousin is far enough.
Second cousin means cousin second order (grandchild of a sibling of one of your grandparents), right?
Yes
Thanks!
Another way I like to think of it is it’s your parent’s cousin’s kid. So you can see why from their perspective it would feel more closely related, it would be like you having a kid and your cousin having a kid and then you seeing them together.
A parent’s first cousin. Your first cousin’s child would be a first cousin once removed.
What really confuses me is your second cousins parent is also called your first cousin once removed.
Second cousin’s parent is great aunt/uncle
No, your great aunt/uncle is your second cousin’s grandparent.
Second cousin is your parent’s cousin’s child.
Your parent’s cousin’s parent is your parent’s aunt/uncle, which is your great aunt/uncle.
You’re parent’s cousin is your first cousin once removed.
That happened to a few of my cousins years ago. We were at a family function so I thought they would’ve put two and two together, but alas.
Isn’t there some sort of biological thing where you’re more likely to be sexually attracted to your relatives if you don’t know they’re you’re relatives
All I could find on this is something called “genetic sexual attraction” [1], though Wikipedia contains arguments that it’s pseudoscience [1.1]. Here’s a Reddit post asking about this. [3].
Related to this, I also came across the “Westermarck effect” [2] which appears to suggest that people who grow up together are less likely to be romantically attracted to each other [2.1].
References
- “Genetic sexual attraction”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-14T18:46Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:29Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction.
- §“Criticism”
Critics of the hypothesis have called it pseudoscience. In a Salon piece, Amanda Marcotte called the concept “half-baked pseudoscientific nonsense that people dreamed up to justify continuing unhealthy, abusive relationships”.[8] The use of “GSA” as an initialism has also been criticized, since it gives the notion that the phenomenon is an actual diagnosable “condition”.
Many have noted the lack of research on the subject. While acknowledging the “phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction”, Eric Anderson, a sociologist and sexologist, noted in a 2012 book that “[t]here is only one academic research article” on the subject, and he critiqued the paper for using “Freudian psycho-babble”.
- §“Criticism”
- “Westermarck effect”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-09-26T14:09Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:33Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect.
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The Westermarck effect […] is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six.
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- "How does nature prevent us from feeling sexually attracted to relatives who are objectively sexually attractive? ". Author: “Morgentau7” (u/Morgentau7). “r/TooAfraidToAsk”. Reddit. Published: 2024-09-25T17:50:08.227Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:34Z. https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/1fpaold/how_does_nature_prevent_us_from_feeling_sexually/.
- “Genetic sexual attraction”. Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-14T18:46Z. Accessed: 2024-12-09T07:29Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction.
Yeah, that’s weird: genetically similiar people are more attractive (as long as it isn’t too similiar)(people in stable relationships often look alike) but bigger genetical difference is better.
Yes, one of the primary components of attraction is familiarity. Also proximity and similarity.
Well there was that movie, Code 46.
Edit. I understand now, thanks.
What is a second cousin? Your cousins cousin? The person your aunt/uncle marrieds niece/nephew? That can’t be right, that’s not blood. Help! Lol
I find this chart helpful to see family relationships.
Then its not even an issue at all from a genetic standpoint. People might find their relationship weird but their children would turn out healthy.
That is helpful, thanks
Your Nan’s sisters granddaughter
What is a second cousin?
Someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a great grandparent to both of you.
Like how a first cousin is someone with whom your most recent common ancestor is a grandparent to both of you (aka you both have a same grandparent but not a same parent - meaning one of each of your parents are siblings with each other).
If the most recent common ancestor isn’t the same relation for both of you, then there’s probably a “times removed” or one of you is some variety of aunt/uncle to the other.
Thanks for ignoring the edit on my comment.
I used to work with this absolute idiot when I was a kid. He was married to his cousin. But apparently he was such a gross dude, that it was too much for her, so she left him. For his brother. She ended up having a couple kids, one with each brother.
Talk about going out of your way to keep it in the family. Their family tree was tied in a knot.
This is the only one that isn’t fake
Oh hey look. The story of how Rudy Giuliani found his wife!
Edit: ex wife, sorry forgot the church didn’t condone their boning like they wanted so they had to get a divorce.
Erotic fan-fic at its finest.
Reminds me of the time I fucked my cousin a few times. She moved I now miss her.
Second cousins you don’t share even blood
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Second cousin in my country is a cousin from the part not related to any of my parents of one of my cousins. What is weird of that?
For example, my cousin is one of my father’s brother son, then my second cousin has to be (otherwise would be a cousin too) the daughter of the cousin’s mother’s brother.
If I pick a random girl I would be equally related genetically.
Uh…yeah you do. Just not very much of it
Dude second cousin in my country is a cousin from the part not related to any of my parents of one of my cousins. What is weird of that?
For example, my cousin is one of my father’s brother son, then my second cousin has to be (otherwise would be a cousin too) the daughter of the cousin’s mother’s brother.
A second cousin is someone with whom you share a great-grandparent.
Earliest common ancestor is great-grandparent. With same number intermediaries for both people.
n^th cousin is how many “g’s” in the title of the earliest common ancestor. Grandparent == one “g” = first cousin. Two gs, second cousin, etc.
“Removed” is the offset value, or the difference between how many intermediaries between the two parties and their earliest common ancestor.
Well yes, but ‘second cousin’ with no qualifiers implies we’re talking about zero times removed. The more salient point I was trying to make was that yes, second cousins share blood
In the country this post was most likely typed, your second cousin is the cousin of your mom or dad. That’s what’s weird of that
The child of the cousin of your mom or dad actually
Oh! I thought that was once removed. Did I get the two mixed up?
Careful anon, that’s how you get a Habsburg child
I mean, probably not with a second cousin, unless you do it for hundreds of years. Greater risk of birth defects if you have children over 30.
Yeah even first cousins are actually not that bad, biologically speaking, if it’s only done for one (or probably even two?) generation.
Yup, and AFAIK, it’s legal in some areas to have kids with your first cousin.
Probably legal in more places than it’s illegal
AFAIK the risk is about the same as having a kid after 40.
To be honest though, there’s always going to be a risk of birth defects if you’re having more than 30 kids.
If you have them like 5 at a time, you’ll probably get a pretty good crop before age sets in.
Having children after 40 greatly increases chances of birth defects, I can only imagine what happens after hundreds of years.
Hmm, we’ll need to ask an elf…
