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(NSFW) Many Egyptian pharoahs practiced incestual marriage. Why did they not have the Westermarck effect, ie the innate disgust for brother-sister/child-parent sex that most people today have? NSFW

by /u/The_Manchurian in /r/AskHistorians

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