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As for myself, when I was in middle school I had a very small crush on my cousin who was a year older and was an incredibly good looking kid...however, he was also adopted, so there was no blood relation whatsoever. Even so, I would never have dreamed of doing ANYTHING with him because adopted or not, he was family and I had grown up always knowing him as nothing but my cousin. It would have really weirded me out to think of pursuing him in anyway.
And yes, incestuous relationships used to be a common thing, particularly between cousins.. however that was long before the medical and genetic consequences were known, and it was also practiced for social class reasons, to keep noble blood lines "pure" or in small populations, out of lack of options. Now we know that that is all a load of ...., that it does bad things to offpsring, so it is no longer an acceptable practice in our society.
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