(November 26, 2018 at 9:11 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: Marrying a "cousin" is very spread in the Middle East and even considered "the stereotypical" kind of marriage.
I wouldn't link incest to cousin marriage, but I'll call any "mother-daughter-sister...first degree relative" sexual relationship as "incest".
As a Middle Eastern, I can attest to marrying a first cousin being a norm there.