Romantic relationships with cousins, creepy?

[devonin]

Well, as I recall, isn't the american phrase "Kissing cousins" referring to second cousins, on the grounds that at that point, you are genetically distant enough to have kids with basically no risk of genetic issues?

On the Six Degrees of Seperation front, you can connect yourself, by blood, to almost anybody to some extent, so theoretically there is a line whereupon it just shouldn't matter. My step-mother's parents found out after having been married, that they were something like third cousins once removed. I don't see such a distant link making any difference, especially if discovered after the fact.

That said, ew, gross, ick. Not something I am personally a proponant of, but if it is determined that biologically you're far enough apart that there's no particular risk to having kids, far be it from me to try and stop you.