When It Comes to Love, It’s All In The Family

July 28, 2010 - 3:00 pm By Alex- University of South Carolina

Good news, everybody.  If you’ve ever found yourself sexually attracted to your brother/dad/uncle/cousin, the University of Illinois just released a study that says you’re not completely wacko.

Pause.  Now recollect yourself.  No vomit noises, please.  This is science.

Apparently it was proven that humans are more attracted to those who look like themselves.  And who looks like you more than your own darn family?  One group of the study participants were subliminally shown pictures of their opposite sex parent as they rated the attractiveness of strangers’ pictures.  The other group were simply shown the strangers’ pictures without the subliminal image before.  Guess which group was more attracted to those strangers? Yup, forget the guy on the soccer team you’ve been seeing, seems pretty obvious that you should lust after your older bro instead.

Okay, go back to your dry heaving.

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7 Comments on "When It Comes to Love, It’s All In The Family"

  1. Marya says:
    Wed, 28th Jul 20105:08 pm 

    LOL, I hope the whole thing is a joke.

    Even so, isn’t incest illegal? (In the United States.) I think it was 20-something states wherein marrying your first-cousin is illegal.

    Your brother/uncle/Dad is just plain weird…

    *shudders*

  2. Ashley says:
    Wed, 28th Jul 20105:54 pm 

    I actually just read a study that proved that we’re not attracted to our family members based on scent. Our family members smell too much like us so that’s why we’re not attracted to them. The study included a bunch of different sweat smells (gross, I know) of different subjects including the test subjects brother/dad/uncle. The woman said she disliked the related person’s scent the most without knowing that they shared DNA. It’s pretty interesting.

  3. kissing games says:
    Wed, 28th Jul 201011:25 pm 

    yes,when i go home every time ,i will love my parents and my grandmother more, they always move my heart . from kissing games

  4. Tiffany says:
    Thu, 29th Jul 20108:28 am 

    Scientifically you are attracted to those who smell like you but not too close. We are genetically/instinctively set up to avoid incest. And you can definitely notice trends that you are attracted to those who look similar to your opposite-sex parent…although actually being attracted to your dad is very Freudian.

  5. johna clayton says:
    Fri, 30th Jul 20104:33 am 

    the family is a big country , if they love each others the country will be free from every things like (fighting, disturbing, …etg)the family must be full of love , its come by every one of them i mine loves .

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  6. ian blackwel says:
    Wed, 4th Aug 20108:09 am 

    mostly persons attract with love opposite sex.i have seen few real example in my neighborhood..
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