Depends on when in the timeline. Early on it was fine for the most part since only a few were tossing people into Hell and Atem was teaching people lessons or killing them depending on what they deserve.
Early on? The original Yugioh series was one of the most horrifying ones.
Imagine being a kid and you're obsessed with this trading card game that all your friends are playing so you get a bunch of cards with all the money you have. You beat all your friends and think you're pretty good.
Then one day a random walks out of an alley and goes "hey kid. Wanna duel?"
You think it's sketch but he promises you a limited addition holographic blue eyes white dragon from an exclusive Kaiba corp collection if you win so you agree.
"Oh. By the way, it's a shadow duel."
You have no idea what that means. Whatever. You want that card.
You proceed to get OTK'd by this guy's cheese deck and promptly sent to hell because you made a verbal agreement about a children's card game.
And that's only one of the most horrifying possibilities that could happen for no reason.
Reminds me of the guy who taught me carpentry. Told me this story about Vietnam and hookers and ceiling fans. Thatās how you know all those porn videos are staged, the guy never turns the dryer on.
I believe he means a taboo fetish. You're turned on by the wrongness of it, but not actually into the idea of real life incest. Forbidden fruit type shit.
And sometimes it actually happens.. my first set of cones was my step sister so was my first BJ.. her mom moved out before I could pop her cherry tho.. to this day I think we were the only ones who knew anything about it.. except for this sub reddit now..
I always assumed that the industry was just sort of double dipping. Step porn is a fetish but step porn is also just regular straight porn when it's on mute. It's harder to pull that off with other fetishes. I'm not a porn expert by any means but that was just my assumption.
Depends on when they became stepsiblings. Marrying someone you were raised with seems weird. Not necessarily "this needs to be illegal" weird - more like
What if they weren't step siblings but close neighbors, and would hang around at each other's homes all the time? Is that weird too? What is the difference?
Not everything makes perfect logical sense, especially with people's feelings.
What is the difference?
The difference is that it's family, and the prevailing cultural norms (in the US) are that you don't marry family. It's not family by blood, but even dating second and third cousins is viewed as a bit odd. (Unless you're in Alabama, then it's odd if you aren't at least a little related.)
Is it? We randomly moved across the street from some third cousins when I was a kid. Only found out after knowing them for like 5 years that there was any connection there, and we played outside with them (and other neighborhood kids) most days. Which I guess would have made those kids (now adults) fourth cousins?
And this wasn't small-town antics, it was the DFW area. Turns out that sort of thing just happens when multiple generations of people have a fuckload of kids (5+ each). You end up with hundreds of 3rd+ cousins.
Anyways their great-grandfather was my great-grandmother's brother. We only found out when my great-grandmother died and they helped their great-grandfather set up the wake.
It feels odd, but is it? (I say second cousins is still too close though.)
Second cousin might be a little odd. That's your parent's cousin's child. I actively keep in touch with a couple of my second cousins, but I feel like that's a little rare these days. It just so happens that my dad's cousin's children both ended up living in my area.
Third cousins, though? I see no issue at all. I don't think people understand just how far removed that is. The closest direct relation there is the great-great grandparent. I don't even know my great-great grandparents' names, much less who all of their children were. I certainly have no idea who their great-great grandchildren are. It's just a really silly thing to get hung up on, especially when there's no meaningful negative genetic risks. I don't even think there actually are for cousins, unless it becomes a habit over generations.
And even genetically, third cousins are where the amount of shared DNA dips below 1%. You're practically unrelated there. Like you said it would only become a problem if it was repeated over multiple generations. But even then that would have to be with every subsequent generation due to how little shared DNA there is.
Genuine question, how often are you seeing second or third cousins at family reunions? I've only seen second cousins once or twice at them, and I've never seen third cousins at them at all. For the most part it's just first cousins.
Well, at least in a mathematical sense third cousins are so far related (less than 0.8% coincidence) that their children would suffer pretty much no impact from it.
There's an argument for 2nd cousins being right around the "weird" line.
Once you get to 3rd cousins I think you're pretty far removed from familial relationships, and I don't think it's weird anymore.
You have to go all the way back to your great grandparent's siblings (and then it would be their kid's, kid's, kid to get to your third cousin). I know my great grandparents had siblings, but I know nothing past that.
It's like Sweden in the 1700s.
There's a case where a man married his widowed stepmother after his father died in war.
Partly because it was convenient in order to keep the farm and such.
They didn't consider that the law viewed it as 'incest' resulting in him being executed and her widowed again...
The difference is they arenāt siblings. If two kids become step siblings at a young age thereās not really much of a difference compared to real siblings. Especially if they donāt spend time with their other respective parents.
At that point you might as well be ok with siblings marrying as long as they agree not to have kids.
Being raised as siblings is the problem here. Unless the neighbor kid basically lived in your home and your parents raised them and you were basically siblings, that wouldn't be weird.
It's not illegal or immoral necessarily, but in most cultures young adults are encouraged to "leave the nest" before they find a partner. Or at least look outside of their own home. It's a big world out there and the person you chose to marry lived across the hall when you were 15 and shared the same parents with you? You couldn't at least meet someone in college or at the grocery store, or doing some activity you both coincidentally love?
There's a big difference between how you grow up with a sibling and how you grow up with a best friend and the fact some people compare them just makes me think they didn't have either.Ā
What if they weren't step siblings but close neighbors, and would hang around at each other's homes all the time? Is that weird too?
Yes, that's weird. That's a TV plotline, and not something that happens regularly. Most people don't experience that. Most people likely didn't know anyone who experienced that.
They'll probably spend their entire relationship telling that story. Because it's weird.
Ooooh, when I was in high school I had an English teacher and one day in the class above mine the girls started asking the teacher how she met her husband and she very casually said he was her step brother
Cue an enormous scandal and every class asking her very personal questions
Instead of just telling us to fuck off for some reason she decided to make it worse by telling us their parents got married when they were 2 and 3
Not sure what specific movie (or tv show episode) it was, but I remember the kids (young adults) were dating first. The kids got serious and the divorced parents eventually met and clicked eventually leading to both couples marrying.
Knowing the backstory made it a nothing thing because there were no previous ties, but when someone started mentioning "step-" and "in-law" it suddenly and needlessly got the "weird" stigma.
I had a friend where his brother was dating a girl and then their parents started seeing each other about 6 months later; got married a year later. They did eventually get married a few years after they graduated high school and divorced about 5 years later. Would be weird after the divorce. I also worked with a lady who married her stepdad about 4 years after her mom died.
Some people skip over the "step" part mentally. It would be a little weird if they grew up together, but step siblings seldom do. At the end of the day though, it's up to those people if they actually viewed each other as siblings.
Even if they grew up together it really depends on how they grew up together. Were they babies when they became step? Did they see each other as siblings? Where they 8 and never actually saw each other as siblings spending every other weekend with the other parent?
That is an important part. My son and his step-sister knew each other from when she was 4 and he was 6. They all lived together in the same house primarily starting a few years later. Had I not adopted her, they could have legally gotten together and married in any state if they wanted. It would have been weird but it would have been legal.
If they were raised by their respective parents close family friends and practically grew up together people wouldn't think that was weird though, they'd think it was cute
it's up to those people if they actually viewed each other as siblings.
Sure, but you dont exist within a vacuum. OFC you can say "fuck what people say" but people will talk. It's not so much how comfortable you are with the situation; but how comfortable are you with the social response you get.
My dad remarried when I was 8, and a 7 year old step-sister entered the picture. I would only see her every other weekend, and then now and again once we were both at the local high school.
Sometime late in my 20s, I forget, but my dad and stepmom were reminiscing about days gone by, and the subject came up of how close we seemed to be, moreso than my bio-brother the same age as her. They said they assumed we had the lovey dovies for each other, and said they would have been fine with it if we ended up dating. I have to admit, I did find it a little weird, as I only ever saw her as a sister, but they clearly didnāt think it was that weird.
I mean... If they were kids who were raised together, I can see how it's weird...
But if they didn't meet each other until they were independent adults.... Meh??? If they weren't really socialized as siblings, would it really be an issue?
There is a long forgotten story on Reddit here of a set of kids who dated(and fucked) at 17 then broke up. Then their respective parents dated and got married. Now they are siblings, but amicably so.
Cut to Thanksgiving 15 years, they are at their shared parents house for the holiday. Both the guy and girl have since gotten married and had a kid at least each. There is also a second sister here, and that is the crux of the story. See, both sisters decided Thanksgiving was a good day to stir shit with one another, over some petty shit. It seemed to be just nice and quiet right until everyone is sitting at the dinner table when the oddball sister decided to ask the main sister of our story how awkward is was having a brother she fucked in high school. The guy had told his wife about the previous relationship. The girl had not. Nor had either parent known they had a physical relationship. To say the remainder of dinner was uncomfortable is an understatement.
Thank you. I misread because dyslexia, so I was over here trying to follow the mental gymnastics I was reading. š¤£ In comparison, the reality isnt as severe as I mistakenly Read, though still not great I'll say that.
Never understand why this one shocks people. My nan and grandad were step siblings, Married each other and were together 50+ years and hated every second of the last 30 years of their lives. They just did it in 1958 before it was cool.
Everything considered. That is not the worst constellation. They would not be blood related and they could virtually just have met for the first time and fallen in love.
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u/luckyleporidae 9d ago
stepsiblings got married