Posts Tagged marriage

Date: June 4th, 2008
Cate: society + culture

would you marry your secret twin?

Interesting situation – let’s say you meet this amazingly attractive person. Guy or girl, whatever you prefer. You are in love. You go to get married.

Surprise! It’s your twin brother or sister, seperated at birth! What do you do now?

Obviously, having kids of your own is out of the question. But could you actually still ‘be’ with them? You wouldn’t have any of that weird family / sibling taboo, at least not a history of it – but I’ll bet there would be plenty of cultural pressure. Would you just have secret sex, while joking about how close you came to marrying your own twin brother or sister? Would you be totally sickened about the whole thing and refuse to even see them again? Would you freak out? Would you be cool with it?

I’m curious. I think I would be a little weirded out by it – but if I’d already got to the point where I was going to marry them… I mean, how could you find a more perfect foil for your own self then your own twin?

Ha ha ha, twincest. Okay. Seriously. What would you do?