Could be! who knows. I can't remember how old this story is, maybe around 10 years? I wouldn't put it past the Spanish press to just invent pieces of news like this, or at the very least exaggerate them a lot.

Sadly, i don't know any wacky stories about Spain on Bestiality. Well, i know that the codex calixtinus accused basques of being particularly fond of their sheep, but that's about it.

Well, it depends a lot on the circumstances.

Nope, not universally. My best friend, for example, finds him ugly, she prefers bishonen dudes.

Well, Cristiano Ronaldo is universally known as a hottie among women and gay men, so maybe your concept of what strange proportions are is a bit off ;)

Football is not played with the hands.

Well, how come we don't? We have two reasons to lecture Americans on the mistreatment of native peoples:

all blunted edge, but yes, edge anyway xD

yeah, the once removed thing, i didn't learn about it till recently (we were discussing consanguinity in the alternate history forums).

Yeah, you can say that. But when two people are hot for each other, stigma isn't going to do much. See how all the stigma and oppression and murder in the world didn't manage to make homosexuality disappear.

I bet Brits don't call it incest. And they don't forbid those marriages since the times of Henry the VIII, while half of the US does.

I would like to use the "no true scotsman" fallacy here.

Huge and weird power imbalances that happen between the people that grow up together. I just don't buy that two siblings that grow up as such can have perfectly consensual relationship. I mean, look at Jaime and Cersei.

Nah, those were Brits. Maybe Germans, too. Those people behave like respectable citizens in their own countries, but like cavemen when they come to Spain.

Well, crying about them wouldn't help much, would it?

As i said, i never went to a family reunion, but thanks to the American sitcoms, i got to understand they are a bomb waiting to happen. And many Americans seem to agree.

I defend it's noone business but the cousins in question. And that moral outrage about cousin sex makes no sense at all, and yes, it's a quaint trait.

Where i come from, the countryside is actually quite liberal sexually speaking. And even then, yes, my grandfather was a very interesting person hehe. He would give me a hard time for being a "late bloomer" lol. He would always say "when i was 14, i was already 'talking' to your grandmother *wink*" xD

First cousins, it depends a lot with the person. It's ok with the govt and the Church, though. For example, my father was very vocal against any kind of cousin-relationship, no matter if it was first, second or 12th-thrice-removed. He got really wary once i invited a second cousin of mine to the theater. On the other…

Those big family reunions i see in the American sit-coms actually trigger the ick for me :D haha