Fuck you antisemites.

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        4 months ago

        That’s a more modern, legal use of the word. Traditionally, incest doesn’t necessarily require blood relation.

        For example, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we find “o wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”.

        This is in reference to his mother (Gertrude) sleeping with her deceased husband’s brother Claudius. Marrying your deceased spouse’s sibling (doing a Biden, in today’s words) was considered incest despite no blood relations whatsoever since at least the Elizabethan era.

        • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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          This is in reference to his mother (Gertrude) sleeping with her deceased husband’s brother Claudius. Marrying your deceased spouse’s sibling (doing a Biden, in today’s words) was considered incest despite no blood relations whatsoever since at least the Elizabethan era.

          in contrast to Onan failing to knock up his brother’s widow.