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Chris Handsome
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"cishet smut"
What does that even mean? |
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Gina Szanboti
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I take it that this went to press without being edited? I guess it is that time of year when everyone is overworked!
It reads like the reviewer was as confused by the gender shenanigans as the characters sound like they are. Made it very difficult to sort out what was being described. |
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Florete
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The blurb on the main site also incorrectly spells "a while" as one word. |
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MFrontier
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This actually makes me curious to check out the anime.
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Hellsoldier
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About the cousins thing, and I remember this being an issue with Yuka from Elfen Lied...
... Most places don't care about it as much as the Anglosphere. There are exceptions to this rule, of course. Here. Hope that answers it. |
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FanGamer24
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Well it’s uncommon enough that it would still be viewed as odd but it is technically allowed. |
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RenimLS
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I think it being viewed as odd would be dependent on the country or locality. At least in a survey in 1983 first cousin marriages accounted for 1.6% of marriages in Japan and looking around some sites cite it's still around 1% of marriages in Japan. That might sound small, but in 2023 there were over 474k marriages meaning there would have been several thousands of first cousin marriages in just that year alone. |
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Nionel
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Given the various sibling romance anime/manga over the years, something with cousins hardly seems out of place.
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Traptrix Lover
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It does seem hard to imagine clutching one's pearls over cousins when the amount of sibling incest is present in anime. Even western media jokes about finding your cousin hot or whathaveyou like Mean Girls or Code Lyoko. I guess even siblings has become a thing here as well with the "step bro" meme. |
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Hellsoldier
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And like... Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins. And whilst there are several countries, and 30 US states, where cousin marriage is forbidden, the 8 US states that make it explicitly a crime are the only places on Earth to do so.
And in fact, they are considered normal, or even preferable, among many people in Africa and the Middle East. And cousin marriage used to be more of a thing among Native Americans. So, the author of the review actually lives in a cultural bubble. Edit: This is a about how stigmatized cousin marriage is or isn't around the world, and not about the genetic consequences of high levels of cousin marriage in a given area or community. |
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Rosiero
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cishet https://www.dictionary.com/browse/smut#id-sec-notes-usage-wordpress |
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vashfanatic
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Yeah, I find a lot of the arguments against marriage between adult consenting cousins being legal to be… eugenics-y. Like, occasional cousin marriage slightly increases the chance of disability or other physical difference, but so does having kids after the age of 35. Also, disability =/= bad. Now, if it’s a situation where a family forces cousin marriage over multiple generations like the Hapsburgs, you get Charles II of Spain, but to get to that point you have to have a lot of other problems (limiting choices in marriage, etc.) that should have been stopped already. |
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Shay Guy
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Also, fun fact, the kind of first cousin also makes a difference in some cultures! That is, a guy marrying his mother's brother's daughter isn't the same as marrying his father's sister's daughter, or his father's brother's daughter. One of those might be considered more on the "incestuous" end of the scale than another.
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Hellsoldier
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Well, it IS eugenics. The most common argument is precisely on the grounds of genetic defects. But to be clear, it isn't just a matter of disabilities, rather real or socially constructed (I'm on the ASD spectrum). It is also about problematic diseases. But as you pointed out, that requires repeated cases of cousin marriage in a given family tree, leading to constant inbreeding. Now, that does not simply happen, unless for cultural and social factors (over half of marriages in the British Pakistani community are between cousins, but they're not the only community). At the end of the day, decisions between consenting adults should be that: decisions between consenting adults. Of course, couples should be educated on the risks. But then again, we're just assuming everyone is going to have kids. |
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Dancing Green
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Fancy way to say straight porn. |
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