Documentation of human beings being disgusted by incest goes back as far as Oedipus a king of Thebes, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, when he found out what he had done, blinded himself and went into exile.
It probably goes back even further than that.
Well just like Oedipus, Patrick Stuebing didn’t know his real biological family.
He was put up for adoption as a child and only after he was an adult did he find out who his real biological family were.
But the similarities between he and Oedipus stop right there. When Oedipus started screwing his mother Jocasta, Oedipus had no idea that she was his mother.
When Patrick started sleeping with his sister Susan he knew full well who she was.
They ended up having four kids together.
Patrick has already spent 2 years in jail over this very issue.
In 2004, Patrick voluntarily underwent a vasectomy on his lawyer’s advice.
"It's legal for the couple to live together, and to share a bed. But they are breaking the law once they have sex. If there are no more children, then who will be able to prove that they are a couple?" asked their lawyer.
There’s nothing like having a lawyer on your side thinking up ways to circumvent the law.
Does it make it any less disgusting that he was adopted and didn’t know that he even had a sister? I mean, to him Susan Karolewski was just like any other girl on the street, ya know? They could’ve been classmates and had he never looked into who his biological parents really were, the world might not have ever known.
Well according to behavioral scientists who study incest it makes all the difference in the world.
There is a 50% chance that offspring from brother and sister, mother and son or father and daughter will end up with some surrealistic genetic mutation, like a lidless wandering third eye in the center of their forehead.
And because of this, evolutionary biologists say that our species has developed ways to make sure you toss your cookies at the idea of sleeping with your sibling.
Obviously it isn’t fool proof.
But then again, nothing is fool proof. Fools are too resourceful. They can reverse engineer anything.
Scientific research even shows that people who saw their mother raise their siblings were more likely to view sibling incest as disgusting.
"What this basically is saying is that no matter how attractive your sibling is to other people, it’s a deal breaker if it’s your sibling," said Leda Cosmides of the University of California at Santa Barbara who was on the team that conducted the incest yuck study.
"By the same token, you could have a full sibling but have been reared apart and have none of these cues; you wouldn’t in particular have an aversion to sex with them," she said.
There is something about watching your sibling have their diaper changed, throw up in a bib, nurse on your mother’s boob and teeth on plastic toys that just kills the sex drive.
And that is what we have here. Patrick never saw his mother changing his sister’s diaper, nursing her or anything like that.
So to him, Susan Karolewski was just another hot babe.
At least he has an excuse…sort of.
Mormons still don’t.
'Kinship Detectors' Prevent Incest ... In Some Cases, Live Science, Feburary 14, 2007
Couple stand by forbidden love, BBC, 7 March 2007
same difference
Why Humans Don’t Have A Mating Season I wrote once that “If it wasn't for beer, humans would have a mating season just like every other animal on the planet. Then we would just go our separate ways,” well I was right.
Well here comes the science.
