Raising the bar on sad/weird....

Schmaltz
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:36:53 +0000

Under the article that’s linked in the original post, there is are some surprisingly informative comments. Some mention this syndrome in which genetically close relatives who have not been around each other growing up have an odd attraction to each other if they meet later on in life for the first time. And not having been around each other while growing up, some sort of natural tendency to NOT see each other in a sexual way hasn’t had an opportunity to develop (the Westermarck Effect).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction

Imprinting (psychology) - Wikipedia;

Also a tragic gallows-humor comment from someone who said he was looking for the incest story on a Detroit newspaper website, but when he instead stumbled onto the the ax-murdering grandmother story, he threw in the towel on catching up on today’s local news. [Grandmother Accused in Fatal Axe Attack in Highland Park](FOX 2 Detroit)