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http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,956454,00.html

A book-related mailing list I'm on was discussing incest in novels, and someone sent this link. It's about a phenomenon called "Genetic Sexual Attraction," which is basically where when people who are biologically related meet for the first time as adults, and are sexually attracted to each other. Apparently the phenomenon occurs in up to 50% of these meetings, both between parents and children (parent gave child up for adoption) and between siblings separated at birth. Anyway I thought it was really interesting. It's worth reading all the way to the end.

Perhaps we're all a bit narcissitic

Date: 2007-09-06 02:23 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
... and finding a part of our genetic code is like finding a part of ourself to fall in love with all over again.

Very interesting article... thanks for sharing! - Anne

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