Poll: Marrying your step-brother/sister

[Zarkov]

So, as the title suggests, what do you think of people who marry a brother or sister who aren't related?

I had a teacher once tell us (the class) about his experience moving to Kentucky from Ohio (It was northern Kentucky, and it's in the US for those Escapists who have the luck of not living in the US). One of the first things he mentioned was that the first friend he ever made over here in Kentucky was married to his step-sister.

Now, to clear up the ambiguousness, this person had known his step-sister since they were children, and had actually grown up with his sister. So in reality, they had the same relationship (I'd suppose) as a sister and brother except for the fact that they didn't have the same parents.

Now... imagine sneaking into your sister's room to make out. Interesting thought?

Either way, I could never see myself doing that. Not to someone I've been with since birth. I'd love her, but I'd love her like a sister, not a potential wife. Ironically, I should be an expert when it comes to inter-family marriage, however even though I live in Kentucky this is the first case I've heard of. Oh, and the married couple has had children.

So, could you see yourself doing this? And have you heard of anyone else doing this?

EDIT: Surprising results are surprising. I can see where you could marry your brother/sister, I just wouldn't do it myself.

Also, I don't know if Kentucky's reputation proceeds itself, however it's a running joke in the tri-state (Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky) that in Kentucky people always marry their cousins and brothers. And that's why one of the first things my teacher brought up was that he first friend married his step-sister. I have question also about that: Is this joked about in other places about Kentucky?

 

[GrimTuesday]

It all depends on the length of time and at what age she became my sister. If this is someone I've grown up with, not a chance, but if this is someone who becomes my sibling in may late teens, early 20's and there was a strong attraction, I'd consider it.

 

[Jedamethis]

Well, if we were young together then HELL NAW DAWG.
But maybe if she became my sister when we were teenagers...

 

[Zarkov]

It all depends on the length of time and at what age she became my sister. If this is someone I've grown up with, not a chance, but if this is someone who becomes my sibling in may late teens, early 20's and there was a strong attraction, I'd consider it.

Yeah, and there's where the gray area starts with me. Although, even in my late teens I don't know if I'd do that. And before and after that time there wouldn't be a chance at all for me.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

unless she had just become my step sister, then hell naw

hell one of my best friends sisters is roughly our age and she's like a sister to me, she's basically off limits in my mind (even though she is pretty damn hot)

 

[Hiname]

She's hot? We get along well? We know each other long enough to make a solidand valid oppinion?

Sure, why the hell not.

 

[Henkie36]

Like you said, it depends on the age at which they became stepbrother/sister. Of course, there are people who can keep telling themselves all along ''We're not related, we're not related'', but the real question is, are you just lying to yourself at that point?

Say this was the other way around. That two people fall in love and get married, and the girl has say, a father who died when she was three, and the guy has divorced parents. What if the parents fall in love? would that be any weirder?

In any case, I think children should not be affected by the choiches of their parents or the other way around.

 

[enzilewulf]

No...I mean while she could be hot in all that, I don't think it would be good for when I run for president and win and take over the universe. I mean "all hail the king...and his sister/queen" doesn't sound to appealing.


*Oh and im coming for you first China*

I mean I am fine with people who would. I don't think there is anything against it. Yet it all seems a bit weird to me.

 

[stefanbertramlee]

I have no problem with someone comitting incest so, no I wouldn't have a problem withe someone marrying they step-sibling.

 

[AdeptaSororitas]

I use the same question I use for everything like this: Do they truely love each other?

Yes: Go for gold.
No: Welcome toooooo: PAINFUL DIVORCE ALLEY! And as a bonus prize: AWKWARD SHAME!

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

It really depends on the actual relationship. In that case, if it were me I wouldn't do it. Reason being that though they were only legally siblings they did end up basically being like any other brother and sister because they had been for so long. If they had only become siblings late in their lives and thus had not developed a sibling-like relationship then it would make more sense to me.

 

[Lyri]

No problem here, it's only by marriage they're in your family so nothing really to stop you from going at it like rabbits if you like.

 

[Kae]

I answered the wrong option I meant to say I have a problem with it so subtract one point from yes and put it in no way.
And here's why I have a step sister and I think of her as if she were just my sister, for me she's not my step sister just my sister and I would never marry my sister so therefore it's a NO WAY from me.

 

[Agayek]

I see nothing inherently wrong with it, but it can get really weird depending on the situation. My mom re-married about 18 months ago (and I'm 23), so if my step-dad actually had a daughter, I'd see nothing wrong with establishing a relationship with her. It might make family get togethers a bit weird, but there's nothing wrong there.

That said, if the parents married when the children were very young and they grew up together as siblings, it would be really weird if they had a romantic relationship. It's kinda the same thing as a pair of orphans/foster kids who grew up together marrying. Not wrong, but kinda... squicky, for lack of a better word.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

It's not genetic so it isn't a huge deal depending on when the parents marry. If you want to marry your step-sibling after having lived with them all throughout childhood...that's be kind of weird. If the stars align in such a way that the girl you married just so happened to have her (insert gender-specific parent here) marry your (inset gender-specific parent here) then I would take that as an odd coincidence but nothing horrible.

You don't need to worry about a severe genetic deformity unless you're banging your youngest or, oldest sibling (assuming you yourself are on the opposite end of the scale. You're the youngest banging the oldest or, the oldest banging the youngest). When it comes to step children there's no genetic link so there's no added risk of genetic deformity among whatever offspring they produce.

When it comes to half-siblings though (say your parents divorced, re-married and, had more kids with a different gender-specific step-parent) then those new kids are blood siblings to an extent which which would make marriage, sex, etc, extremely...awkward...and genetically risky.

TLR version, I'd think it would be better to marry a step-sibling than, for example, a second cousin (provided that step-sibling came with the step-parent and isn't a half-sibling).

 

[Zarkov]

No...I mean while she could be hot in all that, I don't think it would be good for when I run for president and win and take over the universe. I mean "all hail the king...and his sister/queen" doesn't sound to appealing.


*Oh and im coming for you first China*

I mean I am fine with people who would. I don't think there is anything against it. Yet it all seems a bit weird to me.

Same opinion here. And how's that taking over the universe goal working for you?

 

[ace_of_something]

It's a little weird. It kind of depends on when they became step siblings. I have two friends who became step-siblings AFTER they got married. The guy's widowed dad married the girl's divorced mom. It upset them at first but they got over it.

It's really only disturbing if they grew up together.

 

[enzilewulf]

No...I mean while she could be hot in all that, I don't think it would be good for when I run for president and win and take over the universe. I mean "all hail the king...and his sister/queen" doesn't sound to appealing.


*Oh and im coming for you first China*

I mean I am fine with people who would. I don't think there is anything against it. Yet it all seems a bit weird to me.

Same opinion here. And how's that taking over the universe goal working for you?

...well I can speak in public. I think that should help me!

 

[Dags90]

That said, if the parents married when the children were very young and they grew up together as siblings, it would be really weird if they had a romantic relationship. It's kinda the same thing as a pair of orphans/foster kids who grew up together marrying. Not wrong, but kinda... squicky, for lack of a better word.

What about the border-y area?

Everyone keeps saying "Well, if they're really young then that's weird, and if they meet as adults that's fine". One of my sister's friends married his step-sister. Their parents married while they were entering their teenage years, and they started hooking up in high school.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, I couldn't do that. Thankfully I don't have any step-sisters. Even though there's technically no blood relation, the whole sister part would make very very very very very creepy.