Kevin Bacon eating Bacon

[el numero uno]

Alive and kicking...

[Rambone]

Alive and kicking...

Must be an old pic. Getbig told me he was murdered. #PIP #Graboids #whereisrogerbacon

[hardgainerj]

he  married his cousin

[Primemuscle]

he  married his cousin

If you go back far enough many people marry their cousins.

Kyra Sedgwick married actor Kevin Bacon on September 4, 1988. Sedgwick learned in 2011, via her appearance on the U.S. TV show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, that she and Bacon are ninth cousins, once removed.

[Matt]

If you go back far enough many people marry their cousins.

Kyra Sedgwick married actor Kevin Bacon on September 4, 1988. Sedgwick learned in 2011, via her appearance on the U.S. TV show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, that she and Bacon are ninth cousins, once removed.

Even first cousin marriages are enough genetic distance not to matter.  What is a ninth cousin, once removed?  Does the "once removed" part indicate a lack of blood relationship?

[Primemuscle]

Even first cousin marriages are enough genetic distance not to matter.  What is a ninth cousin, once removed?  Does the "once removed" part indicate a lack of blood relationship?

The words "once removed" mean that there is a difference of one generation.

[Tapeworm]

The milquetoast grandpa look doesn't suit anyone. Shave the grey face pubes, Kev.

[Taffin]

Even first cousin marriages are enough genetic distance not to matter.  What is a ninth cousin, once removed?  Does the "once removed" part indicate a lack of blood relationship?

Incorrect Matt

Hundreds of studies on this - it's just that Public Health doesn't like to cause offence where this is common (imported) cultural practice


"Parental consanguinity as a cause for increased incidence of births defects in a study of 238,942 consecutive births.

The risk for birth defects in the offspring of first-cousin matings has been estimated to increase sharply compared to non consanguineous marriages. As a general decline in the frequency of consanguineous marriages was observed in this century, one wonders whether consanguinity is still a factor in the appearance of birth defects in developed countries.

Based on our registry of congenital anomalies we tried to answer to this question.

In the population studied in North-Eastern France a consanguineous mating was known in 1.21% of the cases with congenital anomalies, vs. 0.27% in controls, (p < 0.001). The frequency of the malformations recorded paralleled the degree of consanguinity: out of 89 malformed children, 51 were seen in first-cousins mating (10.3 times more frequent than in offspring of non consanguineous couples), 17 in second-cousins marriages and 18 in more distant relatives mating. Three were uncle-niece marriage. Excluding known mendelian conditions these numbers were 73, 36, 17 and 17 respectively and the corresponding relative risk were 3.68, 3.01, 3.41 and 4.89 respectively.

Therefore there is a negative dose-response effect between level of inbreeding and risk of congenital malformations.

Consanguineous mothers were more often pregnant than non consanguineous mothers (p < 0.01) and they had more stillbirths than non consanguineous mothers. These results show that consanguinity is still a factor of birth defects and they must be taken into account for genetic counseling of inbred marriages, in developed countries."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10526655

[IroNat]

Everybody is related to Kevin Bacon.

[Taffin]

Everybody is related to Kevin Bacon.

In bred bacon...

[old-school-lifter]

apparently KB has a huge cock (no homo)

there is some movie where he comes out of the shower naked....not sure which movie

[IroNat]

[harmankardon1]

apparently KB has a huge cock (no homo)

there is some movie where he comes out of the shower naked....not sure which movie

Movie with Denise Richards "wild things" if I remember....

[Griffith]

Even first cousin marriages are enough genetic distance not to matter.  What is a ninth cousin, once removed?  Does the "once removed" part indicate a lack of blood relationship?

First cousin marriages are a major health risk for newborns.

As has been shown in the moslem community we're marrying cousins is basically the norm and the large amounts of birth defects they have.

Even the UK NHS is acknowledging it as a problem on the national health system.

[Primemuscle]

First cousin marriages are a major health risk for newborns.

As has been shown in the moslem community we're marrying cousins is basically the norm and the large amounts of birth defects they have.

Even the UK NHS is acknowledging it as a problem on the national health system.

I always thought it was illegal to marry one's first cousin. Apparently I was only partly correct. As of February 2014, 24 U.S. states prohibit marriages between first cousins, 19 U.S. states allow marriages between first cousins, and 7 U.S. states allow only some marriages between first cousins. Six states prohibit first-cousin-once-removed marriages.

Note: Matt lives in Canada where it is legal to marry your first cousin.