I thought this was interesting

[John_Doe]

I've been skimming through parts of "Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe" by Audrey I. Richards the last few days and at one point (page 140) s/he writes, "A man has technically pre-emptive rigts to marry his granddaughter and often jokingly addresses her as his 'wife' when she is a child, whether he intends to marry her or not, and it is therefore considered fitting that she should feed him in his old age if he is left alone." I'm assuming that parent-child relations were taboo, I read somewhere that relations between siblings were. I don't agree with much of traditional Bemba society (what seems to me to be its 'feudalism' ; although apparently some researchers don't think that concept properly applies to traditional African societies, its slavery/slave raiding, women seem to have been treated almost like property when it came to marriage, etc.) so I can imagine that many age-gap relationships would not occur under ideal or morally acceptable circumstances but I thought it was interesting to note. I would love to live in a world where there was no stigma around someone having a romantic relationship with their grandchild or someone their grandchild's age if that person was interested (or at the very least, no idea that such a relationship would be inherently wrong even if risk aversion justified discouraging relationships with one's actual grandchildren or their grandchildren at a young dependent age or young children in general etc. but without any demonization of an attraction to or romantic interest in one's grandchildren itself, and even if; realistically, most people aren't going to be romantically interested in their grandparents).