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▸ noun: A hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction. It is one explanation for the incest taboo.
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▸ noun: A hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to later sexual attraction. It is one explanation for the incest taboo.
Similar:
genetic sexual attraction,
Vandenbergh effect,
Coolidge effect,
Whitten effect,
dauermodification,
adultomorphism,
diatropism,
Lee-Boot effect,
mateship,
pedomorphism,
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