Love a news article that let's you read down a while before cutting you off to reveal its a pay to view site.

Fuck those sites.

One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives—a brother and a sister or a parent and a child. “That’s way, way more than I think many people would ever imagine,”

Now I'm not walking around thinking I'm living in a porn movie, but a rate of 0.014% is not what I would call shocking.

Given the number of blathering idiots there are, I'm kinda surprised inbreeding isn't even more common.

I’ve been thinking it’s pretty common for a while, just because of how common a version of it with plausible deniability for the downsides (step siblings, etc.) is in porn. I know people say it’s just to appeal to people who really like it and the rest can just mute, but that’s very unconvincing. I always have porn muted, because the sounds don’t do much for me and just about every person I talk to about this (not a lot, so grain of salt) is surprised that anyone would mute as a rule. Secondly, I don’t think you really need words to pick up on the incest vibe.

The UK actually has a big issue with incest. Especially with cousins. Causes loads of child fatalities.

Really big issue with people from Asia, incest is the norm there.

Edit for those downvoting me is this a recorded issue. It's been in the news. Just because it doesnt fit the narrative or we arent meant to talk about those things doesn't mean it isn't happening.

If 1/7000 kids are the product of incest, I'm guessing that 1//500 have been lied to about their biological father; looking at you royal family of England.

Well there's 8 billion humans and 331 million Americans so

Over a million humans and almost 50k Americans.

Rad

A bit off topic but, here is the latest episode from the podcast Citations Needed. They talk about the Atlantic's shitty politics. It made me not want to give them any views.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-198-how-the-atlantic-magazine-helps-sell-austerity-and-war-to-middlebrow-liberals