Why Doesn't Childhood Association Always Inhibit Sexual Attraction?

为什么童年协会不总是抑制性吸引力？

• 批准号: 0439095
• 负责人: Arthur Wolf
• 金额: $ 8.87万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-03-15 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0439095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Why; Doesn; Childhood; Association; Always

One of the few questions that have engaged the attention of philosophers and the theologians as well as social and biological scientists is the origins of the nearly universal prohibition on sexual relations between close relatives. Until only a few years ago the central question was: Is the prohibition constructed to protect human beings from a natural inclination to mate and marry their close relatives or is the prohibition rooted in a sexual aversion aroused by early childhood association? In other words, does the incest taboo repress or express a natural human tendency? Evidence from studies in Israel and Taiwan has shown that children reared together from an early age develop an aversion to sexual relations. Most scientists agree that the ultimate cause is the dangers of inbreeding. But the proximate cause is the subject of this project. The primary purpose of this project is to examine Taiwanese minor marriages (where the bride is reared from a young age as a sibling of the groom). Household registers compiled by the Japanese colonial government make it possible to reconstruct the families in which couples married in the minor fashion were reared and determine whether or not their parents married in the minor fashion and with what result. This creates the possibility of determining what it is about early association that is heritable.Broader impact. The broader implication of the research concerns our understanding of human sexuality in general. It is very unlikely that incest is an isolated aspect of human sexuality. Evidence concerning the conditions that do or do not inhibit sexual attractions among close relatives will be of general interest because it is certain to have implications for our understanding of sexual attraction in general.

哲学家、神学家、社会学家和生物学家都注意到的少数几个问题之一，是近亲之间几乎普遍禁止性关系的起源。直到几年前，核心问题还是：这项禁令是为了保护人类不受近亲交配和结婚的自然倾向的影响，还是源于儿童早期联想引起的性厌恶？换句话说，乱伦禁忌是压抑还是表达了一种自然的人类倾向？以色列和台湾的研究证据表明，从小一起长大的孩子会对性关系产生厌恶。大多数科学家认为，最终原因是近亲繁殖的危险。但直接原因是这个项目的主题。这个项目的主要目的是研究台湾的未成年婚姻（新娘从小就被当作新郎的兄弟姐妹来抚养）。日本殖民政府编制的户口簿可以重建未成年人结婚的家庭，并可以确定父母是否未成年结婚以及结果如何。这就有可能确定早期联想是如何遗传的。更广泛的影响。这项研究的更广泛含义涉及到我们对人类性行为的总体理解。乱伦不太可能是人类性行为的一个孤立方面。关于是否抑制近亲之间的性吸引的条件的证据将引起普遍的兴趣，因为它肯定会对我们对性吸引的理解产生影响。