# Incest is best at the Oscars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309 "2000-03-27T19:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/41 "2000-03-29T19:11:00Z")
**Da Ace** - Yeah, I’ve got some mighty good-looking cousins, too, and you’re right; they are quite tempting. Must…resist…urge…to…live…down…to…stereotype…of…southerners… We don’t need to go wading around in our own gene pool, now, do we? (For the record, though, just how distant must a cousin be before it’s OK? Just wondering… No reason…) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/42 "2000-03-29T19:13:00Z")
Anything furthur than a first cousin is legal, spoke. I am afraid of what will happen now that you know this… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/43 "2000-03-29T19:15:00Z")
Gee, I feel left out; I don’t have any attractive male relatives at all. But I do notice that after I become pals with men, they no longer attract me. I can think of a handful of guys who are cute as all get-out, but after we became good platonic friends, I could bunk down with them and not feel a thing (in fact, that has happened). I guess familiarity really does breed contempt . . . Or at least disinterest. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/44 "2000-03-29T20:02:00Z")
Don’t worry SwimmingRiddles; I don’t go to the family reunions looking for dates. Maybe Da Ace and I could make some cousin-swapping arrangements, though… ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/45 "2000-03-30T00:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Akatsukami: > \*\ ***ThisYearsGirl** writes: > > > [@](#): > > > > I think the lesson in [the Oedipus] story is not to sleep with familt members. > > Or perhaps it’s not to abandon your infant son on a hillside after spiking his feet? > > \*\* Nah, the lesson is that we’re all merely pawns of Fate, and if the oracle had said that your infant son was destined to murder your husband, well, you would have been better off just going along with it. Otherwise . . . DHR ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/46 "2000-03-30T06:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Anything furthur than a first cousin is legal, spoke. I am afraid of what will happen now that you know this… Some states allow sexual relations and marriage between first cousins outright, some have specific requirements. For example, her in Wisconsin 1st cousins may marry if the woman is over age 55 or if a physician submits an affidavit that one of the parties is permanently sterile. Every state will recognize 1st cousin marriages if they are performed in a state which allows them. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/47 "2000-03-30T15:00:00Z")
**Otto** and **SwimmingRiddles** – I won’t even ask why y’all seem to know the demarcation lines of cousin-lovin’ off the tops of your heads… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309/48 "2000-03-30T15:04:00Z")
Don’t worry about me, my cousins think I’m gay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incest-is-best-at-the-oscars/15309.md?page=2)