My mother’s parents were from a small island community in Norway. They were second cousins.
One time I got drunk and made out with my second cousin who still lives on that same island. My friends and family who witnessed the course of events were merely amused and not at all disgusted.
Inbreeding ain’t going nowhere in coastal Norway!
My (not at all previously related) wife thinks I’m insane that I love telling this story.
2nd cousin relationships are common in most parts of the world, and not viewed with the circumspection that 1st cousin relationships tend to be. You are much more genetically distant from a 2nd cousin than you are from a 1st.
I would say that the distance depends too on where someone is from. If they come from an endogamous community then they are related to other people in their tree through more than just a single branch. Islands, villages, etc. Sometimes it is fine, other times it can be a problem.
One time I got drunk and made out with my second cousin who still lives on that same island. My friends and family who witnessed the course of events were merely amused and not at all disgusted.
Inbreeding ain’t going nowhere in coastal Norway!
My (not at all previously related) wife thinks I’m insane that I love telling this story.