DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest

[EmilyMiller]

Not passing judgement, just sharing an article:

The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the frequency he found in the U.K. Biobank, an anonymized research database: One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives—a brother and a sister or a parent and a child.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,” he told me. And this number is just a floor: It reflects only the cases that resulted in pregnancy, that did not end in miscarriage or abortion, and that led to the birth of a child who grew into an adult who volunteered for a research study

— The Atlantic (probably behind a paywall)

Emily

 

[intim8]

Mere availability is a huge factor in sexual selection.

 

[Volunteer_]

Thanks for sharing, that’s really quite surprising. I guess the proportion of Incest stories are actually more representative than thought.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

The secret history of USA. - "Just as The British Empire decided to send their convicts to Australia, they decided to send their incestuous degenerates to their American colonies. Many, many years later, the Incest section of Literotica was born!"

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Link to it without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dna-tests-are-uncovering-the-true-prevalence-of-incest/ar-BB1k6mNN

 

[tenyari]

DNA has rewritten a lot of narratives.

If this is anything like the DNA reveals among societies with extreme class divides or a history or racism, and I suspect it is - then a major driver is likely non-consensual.

 

[OverconfidentSarcasm]

DNA has rewritten a lot of narratives.

If this is anything like the DNA reveals among societies with extreme class divides or a history or racism, and I suspect it is - then a major driver is likely non-consensual.

Yes... but not as major as one would think.

 

[SimonDoom]

Those car seats just keep getting more and more comfortable.

 

[StillStunned]

At least my I/T won't be true to life, because no-one is going to get pregnant.

 

[EmilyMiller]

DNA has rewritten a lot of narratives.

If this is anything like the DNA reveals among societies with extreme class divides or a history or racism, and I suspect it is - then a major driver is likely non-consensual.

I suspect so

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not getting on anyone’s case about writing I/T. Just noting that it’s much less rare IRL than we thought.

Emily

 

[alohadave]

Fun fact, all humans are related to each other. Everyone is a cousin-fucker when you go far enough up the tree.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Fun fact, all humans are related to each other. Everyone is a cousin-fucker when you go far enough up the tree.

Not just us. We are all related to sponges as well (now some are more closely related of course).

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

Not just us. We are all related to sponges as well (now some are more closely related of course).

Emily

It's been a few years since I molested my sponge though.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It's been a few days since I molested my sponge though.

I fixed this for you.

Emily

 

[SimonDoom]

So many factors at work. Sons staying home because of COVID and high housing prices. Moms looking hotter longer through better diet and exercise. Fear of STDs. Loutish fathers. It kind of makes sense.

 

[StillStunned]

So many factors at work. Sons staying home because of COVID and high housing prices. Moms looking hotter longer through better diet and exercise. Fear of STDs. Loutish fathers. It kind of makes sense.

And, if Pornhub is anything to go by, teenage sons who look remarkably like 30-year-old bodybuilders and teenage daughters who dress like Japanese schoolgirls.

 

[VallesMarineris]

Not passing judgement, just sharing an article:


— The Atlantic (probably behind a paywall)

Emily

1 in 7,000 seemed rarer than expected to me, not more common. So I looked up the article in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_disease

Most countries classify a disease as rare if its incidence is < 1/2000. So incest is quite rare, even considering that only a fraction of such relationships result in pregnancy.

 

[StillStunned]

I fixed this for you.

Emily

Does it count as molesting if you get it wet first?

 

[EmilyMiller]

And, if Pornhub is anything to go by, teenage sons who look remarkably like 30-year-old bodybuilders and teenage daughters who dress like Japanese schoolgirls.

Better than the other way round though.

Emily

 

[EmilyMiller]

Does it count as molesting if you get it wet first?

Consensual sponge sex is a gift from the almighty.

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

Consensual sponge sex is a gift from the almighty.

Emily

If only it was a better kisser...

 

[8letters]

So many factors at work. Sons staying home because of COVID and high housing prices. Moms looking hotter longer through better diet and exercise. Fear of STDs. Loutish fathers. It kind of makes sense.

From the article, the 1-in-7000 DNA results are from "adult who volunteered for a research study" in the UK. So the impregnation would have happened at least 20 years ago.

 

[EmilyMiller]

From the article, the 1-in-7000 DNA results are from "adult who volunteered for a research study" in the UK. So the impregnation would have happened at least 20 years ago.

And - as they say - 1:7,000 is definitely a floor. Maybe 1:1,000 adjusting for the factors referenced.

Emily

 

[OverconfidentSarcasm]

1 in 7,000 seemed rarer than expected to me, not more common. So I looked up the article in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_disease

Most countries classify a disease as rare if its incidence is < 1/2000. So incest is quite rare, even considering that only a fraction of such relationships result in pregnancy.

1 in 7,000 is the number from this specific example. It doesn't account for all the cases of incest that didn't produce offspring, or where the parents weren't first-degree relatives (so grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts are already out of scope for this study), or where the offspring simply never sent in their DNA (for example because they know about their heritage and are understandably hesitant to let others discover it).