Why did he do it bros?
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Poe married his 13 year old cousin
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It was a different time.
It was actually very abnormal for the time.
It was a time.
He got a cute and funny licence didnt he?
The age difference was abnormal but the age of consent at the time was 10 and marrying your cousin wasn't considered that weird either.
I don't know about that
https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/24.html
No mention of family
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/science/cousins-marriage-family-tree.html
Paywalled
I knew about that
I might've known about that.
If there is grass on the field, play ball
by the time you find out, you're in too deep anyway
It was time
Times have changed, I suppose.
Just twenty years ago having sex with 16-17 yo girls was normal. Imagine in the 1800s.
But his first cousin?
> Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coupled_cousins
Sorry to keep sounding pedantic but that is about the world in 2009, cousin marriages are concentrated in specific regions and cultures and that also includes second cousin marriages which, I believe, have always been fine. Also, the article sourcing that claim is paywalled (nyt).
The percentage was higher in the past (including the 1800s when Poe lived).
download bypass paywalls or open it in archive.today you moron. have you never encountered a paywalled article before?
Because he was based
>1 post apart
Neat
Because he was fricking based
Good for him.
Good on him.
No shade.
Genuinely. His writing is better than the voidless personalities attending your local book festival protesting climate change while traveling to said book festival.
The mad loved a lady and his inspired works will live in; your shitty attempt to grab 5 minutes of fame at the next book festival will not.
SUCKS TO SUCK
I wish it were again more normal for cousins to have this sort of relationship, perhaps excluding the age difference.
I felt a sincere and very profound attraction to my mid-twenties cousin when I was a young teenager. I had never met her before, and having only met her once, she has left a profoundly erotic and romantic influence on my life. I would have let her sweep me away forever if she'd wanted.
I wouldn’t mind staring the black death in the face if it meant getting some dicky with no moral and or social repercussions…
why do you all act like you don't find your first cousin hot? all first cousins are hot
I made out with my (first) cousin, also touched her breasts, ass and pussy.
Cousin marriage was pretty common till about 1850, when it started to decline. Still, it was not considered taboo the way it is today until about 1950. Einstein and Darwin married their first cousins.
As for marrying at 13, that wasn't very taboo either. As evidence, the first Western criticism of Muhammad's marriage to Aisha happened in the early 20th century. This was after 1300 years of relentless Christian polemicism against the character of Muhammad. So evidently, nobody really saw child marriage as a great taboo till then.
I'm a short, ugly 28 year old with no money or friends, and I just want to marry a cute 18 year old
forget about it anon, short guys dont even get short girls anymore...
manlets are basically doomed to a life of perpetual furious masturbation sessions in front of their monitors
Why did no one tell me Poe looked like such a homosexual. I don't like him anymore.
>has read Poe without knowing what he looked like
Anon, Poe's face is a pop culture icon..
>which may have inspired some of his writing
>may
I read somewhere that he did that just to get custody over her and they never consummated, therefore I will choose to believe it because I want to.
God lord I'm pro cousin fricking but not cousin fricking to an early grave.