According To Cosmo, It’s Not THAT Weird To Fall In Love With Your Brother

OK, this may not be as bad as Salon’s sad attempt at normalizing pedophilia, but it’s in the same ballpark of weird and inappropriate.

Cosmopolitan usually attempts to address today’s most serious taboos. What are they tackling today, you ask? Oh you know. Falling in love with your brother.

This particular story details the life of Melissa and Brian– two individuals who share the same father but are totally and completely in looooooooooooove.

Growing up, Melissa didn’t know her father wasn’t her biological father. It wasn’t until she got a strange friend request on Facebook that the puzzle pieces started coming together.

In January 2015, a Facebook friend request came from Chris*, a man she didn’t know — and her world shifted drastically again.

 

“When I messaged to ask how I knew him, he said, ‘If I really told you, you wouldn’t believe it,'” she says. “I pushed, and he said, ‘Your dad was not your dad. Your mom lied to you your whole life about who your father was.'”

 

Chris claimed to be the stepson of Melissa’s real biological father, who had recently died. He said he grew up knowing his stepfather had a secret child out there, and even tried to contact Melissa years before, but her mother always intervened. “He knew all this information about me,” she says. “Of course, I was flipping out.”

Interesting story, right? Well hold on. It gets real weird real fast. Chris gave Melissa a bunch of contact information so she could reach out to her other siblings, including her brother, Brian. (This is where this entire story gets really gross.)

Melissa recalled hearing Brian’s voice on the phone for the first time.

“I don’t really know how to describe the feeling, but I was really attracted to it,” she said.

Like anyone in the 21st century, the two basically stalked each other’s Facebook timelines, but Melissa said it stirred “sexual fantasies.”

Then the two met in person, and it was apparently “love at first sight.”

“… absolutely the craziest thing I have ever experienced,” Melissa said. “The sexual force was like I was levitating off the earth. Your body instantly craves the other person.”

The feeling was mutual: The pair shyly hugged and they had trouble looking at each other, in part because it was like gazing in a mirror, they looked so similar. “It was trippy, like seeing yourself in the opposite form,” Brian says. “Everything inside you is just vibrating. Your cells know that this is your person.”

So obviously, the siblings slept together. Oh, I should also mention that they were both married at the time. But Brian left his wife two weeks after hooking up with his sister, and Melissa said her husband is an “open-minded guy” and is totally cool with her sleeping with other dudes because “he knows who I am and my upbringing.”

But ultimately, Cosmo wants you all to know that Brian and Melissa’s relationship isn’t all that weird. Because science.

Social scientists and psychologists have long researched how societies’ prohibition against incest evolved: It’s essentially nature’s way of protecting humans from passing along the genetic mutations and disease risks that happen more commonly with close relatives, explains Dr. Debra Lieberman, a professor of Psychology at the University of Miami. The dominant theory, first proposed by Finnish social scientist Edward Westermark, is that people become desensitized to those they are raised alongside.

 

“Westermarck’s hypothesis and my research have shown that siblings use clues like living under the same roof and being cared for the same parents to develop a sexual aversion,” Lieberman says. “But if you don’t grow up together, no aversion naturally develops.”

But still. They have so much in common. I mean, they both like tattoos. And they both like the same music. And they were both sexually abused. (Cosmo doesn’t apparently think that’s a big deal, because they barely mention it.)

Hey Cosmo. Stop trying to normalize abnormal behaviors. Pedophilia isn’t normal. Transgenderism isn’t normal. Incest isn’t normal.

I can’t believe I actually have to point that out.

h/t Breitbart