Preventing Accidental Incest
(Reykjavík, Iceland) With a relatively small population and a uniquely confusing method of passing on family names, Iceland is
susceptible to accidental incest. Consequently, an "incest prevention" app has been created.
The app allows users to bump their phones together and instantly find out whether or not they are related.
“Bump in the app before you bump in bed,” is the totally awesome tag line for the new product, created by a group of Software Engineering students at the University of Iceland named Sad Engineer Studios.
Sleeping with a relative is more of an issue in Iceland than most other territories due to the country’s small size—Iceland has just 320,000 residents, compared with more than 300 million people in the U.S.—as well as the lack of immigration and the peculiar way that surnames are constructed in the country.
Your surname is not passed down through the generations as it is in most Western cultures. Instead, your surname is your mother or father’s first name, with the word “son” or “dottir” suffixed.
Heh.
(Reykjavík, Iceland) With a relatively small population and a uniquely confusing method of passing on family names, Iceland is susceptible to accidental incest. Consequently, an "incest prevention" app has been created.
1 comment:
Having been adopted, and liking older women when I was younger, I actually started to have nightmares about finding my birth mother and... Look, she could have been in her young teens, even 13 or even younger for all I knew. My average woman was about 10-20 years my senior, with a few on the opposite edge if always legal... save when neither of us were technically legal. I doubt if it works for adoptions though...
Turns out I dodged that bullet. When I met my birth mother I didn't recognize her. And vice versa, which was also good, as I don't remember all the women.
Post a Comment