Does anyone find this disgusting?
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garlicbreath — 20 years ago(July 31, 2005 01:53 AM)
They were really distant relatives (as proven by what Brantley's mum said before he left, about the dead cousin's blah blah thing) and they certainly weren't blood relatives. It's not too disgusting a thing, seeing as in normal villages/towns/communities, people are all going to be rather related. marrying the wife of your third cousin several times removed's son doesn't sound that terrible.
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mel_anie_98 — 20 years ago(August 30, 2005 08:38 AM)
If you only look at it from the perspective that he called her "Aunt" then yes, it's disgusting. But if you look at it the way it really is then he didn't sleep with his aunt.
First of all, relatively speaking she's not his aunt, but rather a cousin. Plus, neither her nor Howard were related by blood and technically not even legally. His mother's cousin Helen married Howard's half-sister's nephew. If the nephew came from the parent of Howard's sister that wasn't his parent, then technically Brantly's family wasn't even related by blood. That's more of an adopted family, where you and the rest of society consider you family (legal or otherwise) when in fact no ties (legal or blood) exists.
The fact that he called him "Uncle" Howard wasn't accurate. That's a relationship that would only exist on any level if he was a sib of one of his parents, which he wasn't. If anything he was cousin, but technically he wasn't even that.
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Owlzindabarn — 20 years ago(February 16, 2006 01:41 PM)
Listen, yeah she was kind of a skank; but she stripped him naked in the pool, nature took over and what happened happened. I'd do it too if I were in his shoes. Oh wait a minute, he was naked. Well all you guys know what I mean.
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dave-soete — 19 years ago(July 01, 2006 08:41 AM)
Still gross. You can split hairs about bloodlines etc., but the fact remains that they are (or were) related, even if by marriage. This is, as it should be, taboo.
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Ratinho80 — 19 years ago(July 20, 2006 02:28 AM)
Brilliant, so if you have sex with your brother's wife's sister it's wrong and immoral is it? People don't seem to understand..well, life here. If there's no blood link with someone, they are in no way connected to you in any immediate family sense for christs sake.
Don't be moronic.
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dave-soete — 19 years ago(August 07, 2006 05:58 AM)
Tough talk Ratinho, but your argument is false ffs. You don't need a blood link to be related, and that's the point ffs. Adoptive parents and step-parents do not have a blood link to their children, but it IS still wrong for them to have sex the children, right?
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Mickyfinn — 19 years ago(September 01, 2006 10:50 AM)
What planet are you on? No, you don't need a blood link to be related, but his mother's "cousin Ellen married his half-sister's nephew" and you equate this having sex with his aunt?
You and I must be related then.
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