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Today, we’re talking about cousins. Kissing cousins specifically, and some of the genetic malformations it may or may NOT produce.
If you live in America, the thought of kissing cousins probably makes you cringe. But outside of the Western world and throughout a lot of time, that wasn’t always the case. Throughout many wealthy families and cultures, it was and is considered par for the course. How was this taboo born and when did it really get it’s wings? That’s what you're in for today on Impolite Society.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-early-christian-church-gave-birth-today-s-weird-europeans
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/science/cousins-marriage-family-tree.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/there-s-nothing-wrong-with-cousins-getting-married-scientists-say-1210072.html
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/what-scientists-found-after-analyzing-cases-of-inbreeding-in-the-uk 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/graphics/cousins_042505.html?noredirect=on 
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/go-ahead-kiss-your-cousin 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605922/ 
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/02/15/cousin-marriage-is-probably-fine-in-most-cases 
https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy201325 
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7232766/dupont-family-inbreeding-legacy-cousins-marriage/ 
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/prehistoric-humans-are-likely-to-have-formed-mating-networks-to-avoid-inbreeding 
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Today we’re digging into the world of diapers and the adults who love them. We’ll dig into how adults role play being babies and how they put the lovers in diaper lovers. We’ll also take a look inside the mind of an adult baby to try to understand what draws them to the diaper lifestyle.
We’ll cover all this with many more messytidbits along the way. That’s what you’re in for today on Impolite Society.
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Fashion is a complicated world. Youthful women, beautiful clothes, and the whiff of culture and privilege is a heady mix. It’s no surprise that the trends and fads in fashion have had us chasing our tails for eons. But before there was heroin chic and body positivity movements, fashion was shaping our health in a completely different way. Turns out it’s not just the culture of fashion that’s toxic.
Today we’re exploring the deadly fashion trends of centuries past. Industrial waste, poison hats, and columns of fire are on the docket today and it might make you think twice about what threads you decide to rock at your next big social function.
That’s what you're in for today on Impolite Society.

00:00 The World of Fashion: A Toxic Legacy
03:25 Historical Fashion: From TikTok Trends to Deadly Dyes
06:23 Aniline Dyes
19:17 Fiery Hoop Skirts
26:13 Felt Hats and Mercury Poisoning
37:00 The Legacy of Scheele's Green
46:06 Reflecting on the Dangers of Fashion and Industrial Chemicals
48:25 Share the Podcast and Stay Informed
 

Sources:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toms-river-excerpt-on-aniline-dye/


https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=448&toxid=79#:~:text=Aniline%20is%20irritating%20to%20the,acute%20or%20delayed%20hemolytic%20anemia 


https://mollybrown.org/death-by-crinoline/


https://thecowkeeperswish.com/2018/08/06/the-crinoline-fires/


https://www.famsf.org/stories/poisons-part-i-the-mercurial-world-of-felt


https://corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Mercury-mad-hatter.htm


https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/


https://www.jezebel.com/the-arsenic-dress-how-poisonous-green-pigments-terrori-1738374597






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Secret sea labs, extraterrestrial intelligence and LSD experiments…. No this isn’t the plot of a new spy movie. This is the story of a very real experiment that took place in the U.S. virgin islands in the 1960s.
Join us as we tell the story of a scientist and intellectual who became obsessed with unlocking the secrets of language and the young, star-crossed lovers who would get entangled in the messy affair. This is a story of strange science, unorthodox experiments and interspecies love. And you’re going to hear it all today, on Impolite Society.


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Stories are unique to the human race. They inspire us, delight us, and cast the familiar world around us in a whole new light. Everyone has been wrapped up in a good story at some point in their lives- curled up with a book you can’t put down, binge watching television shows late into the night, or being so obsessed with a story you find yourself dreaming about it. And every one of us, at some point, has thought, “What if….”

Today we are entering the online world of fanfiction: what is it, who writes it, and why the subject matter often leans to the dark, the sexual, and the taboo.

That’s what we’re in for today on Impolite Society. 

Sources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/02/surprising-18th-century-origins-fan-fiction/606532/

https://reporter.rit.edu/views/fanfiction-legal-battle-creativity

https://noraphoenix.com/2018/03/26/introduction-into-mpreg/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/questions-about-mpreg-you-were-embarrassed-to-ask 
https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/v9h4ae/analysis_of_the_top_fandoms_on_ao3_percentages/

https://screenrant.com/fan-ships-highest-number-fanworks-ao3-ranked/#keith-amp-lance-voltron-legendary-defender

https://archiveofourown.org/tags



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La petite mort. This phrase, meaning the little death, is an old school French euphemism for Orgasms. But, what happens when our pursuit of these little deaths results in the big one? Around the globe, thousands die each year from these autoerotic fatalities, and those are just the ones where the family let the coroner put that down on paper.

So how does the five finger shuffle turn deadly? Today we're talking about masturbation and all the ways the grim reaper might catch you with your pants down. We'll explore the famous cases from the medical journals and how you can avoid a similar fate.

This episode is not for the squeamish,  so buckle up because that's what you're in for today on Impolite Society.

Sources:

https://usstore.tenga.co/pages/globalreport2021
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3177356/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11453096/#:~:text=We%20report%20a%20case%20of,a%20sufficient%20amount%20of%20air. 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/23/drugsandalcohol.uknews2 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35315374/ 
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/autoerotic-fatalities-power-hydraulics#:~:text=This%20article%20describes%20two%20cases,used%20a%20frontend%20loader%20shovel. 
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