2013-09-23, 08:14 AM
Flonne Wrote:I have always maintained that the Westermarck Effect is NOT a real thing. There are too many variables that make it a grey area or flat prove it wrong for it to be legitimate. If you aren't at least a little bit attracted to relatives of close age, then they are either not physically attractive or peaches; it goes by the same ruleset as a normal person. Taboo is all societal in any case, if it's never brought up then kids don't even know that it's wrong in the eyes of others.
I don't quite believe in the westermarck effect either, but as i said you could have thrown some of it into the story.
Yosuga no Sora used the concept to an extent, for example.