# Sex with twin brothers creates murky paternity gene pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 28, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027 "2004-11-28T19:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/21 "2004-11-29T17:54:58Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > An issue which straight men and gay men and bisexual men can unite upon as a good thing, with the appropriate set of twins. > > Better? šŸ˜ƒ Much. In related news, is it legal for a man to remarry his widow? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/22 "2004-11-29T18:29:20Z")
> [@Bob55](#): > > Well the article did say that twins are actually slightly genetically different due to mutations during embryonic development. But it does remind me of that GQ a while back that asked if two sets of twins had kids together would the kids be siblings or cousins or both? Actually the article said it was possible that twins would be slightly different. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/23 "2004-11-29T18:59:48Z")
> [@Evil Death](#): > > Much. > > In related news, is it legal for a man to remarry his widow? Of course not, at least here in the US. Though if gay marriage ever goes through, next thing you know necrophilia would be legal too. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/24 "2004-11-29T21:16:52Z")
> [@RandomLetters](#): > > Though if gay marriage ever goes through, next thing you know necrophilia would be legal too. > šŸ˜‰ 'Scuse me? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/25 "2004-11-29T22:41:58Z")
You can only have a widow if youā€™re dead. So if she remarried you and you were dead. . . ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/26 "2004-11-30T00:12:28Z")
If you go missing for enough years to be deemed in law to be dead for succession purposes, but then you return, then yes, you could marry your widow. Of course she would probably kill you first for putting her through so much grief for so many years, so the matter would be moot. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/27 "2004-11-30T00:15:35Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > If you go missing for enough years to be deemed in law to be dead for succession purposes, but then you return, then yes, you could marry your widow. > > Of course she would probably kill you first for putting her through so much grief for so many years, so the matter would be moot. No, it wouldnā€™t - some Doper would assuredly open a Pit thread about double jeopardy on the back of it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/28 "2004-11-30T00:45:33Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > And straight women. Two words: Cingular Triplets. :eek: You know, there are people Iā€™d kill to get in bed with all three of them at the same timeā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/29 "2004-11-30T00:47:16Z")
Oh, and on the ā€œmarried siblingsā€ subject, my (maternal) grandfatherā€™s sister married my (maternal) grandmotherā€™s brother. No twins in the bunch, though. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/30 "2004-11-30T03:02:39Z")
I hate to ask, but what are the ā€œCingular Tripletsā€? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/31 "2004-11-30T03:27:43Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I hate to ask, but what are the ā€œCingular Tripletsā€? Nick, Ryan and Craig Karshner. Theyā€™re from the Detroit area. [Hereā€™s](http://www.thekarshnertriplets.com/gallery.php?img=gallery_sittingOnRock.jpg) some eye candy. Weā€™re calling them the Cingular Triplets because theyā€™ve done some Cingular ads. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027/32 "2004-11-30T03:30:38Z")
Oh my. Put a little hair on their chests, and add about ten years, and yeah, I could go for them. Damn, I hate growing old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-twin-brothers-creates-murky-paternity-gene-pool/277027.md?page=1)