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> Did you grow up seeing your cousins often?

I did not! Only occasionally as a young child and a handful of times as an adult. That is probably key.



> The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived with like siblings before the age of six. This hypothesis was first proposed by Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck in his book The History of Human Marriage (1891) as one explanation for the incest taboo.

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




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