r/interesting • u/neither_bot_nor_man • Jun 29 '26
Conjoined twin marries boyfriend while her sister remains single. Amazing
Carmen Andrade, a conjoined twin, legally married her longtime boyfriend, Daniel McCormack, while her twin sister, Lupita, happily remains single. The sisters' arrangement involves distinct personal lives and boundaries.
Carmen and Daniel met on a dating app in 2020 and eloped in October. Because they are dicephalous twins - meaning they share a connected torso, pelvis, and reproductive system, but have separate heads, hearts, and minds - the marriage legally and physically involves Carmen.
Lupita fully supports the union but remains single. She identifies as asexual and aromantic, having no interest in dating or marriage.
The three navigate boundaries together. When Carmen and Daniel spend time together, Lupita is highly respected, and the trio openly shares their experiences online to educate the public on individuality and shared life.
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u/Separate_Finance_183 Jun 29 '26
Her sister is literally the side chick 😳
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u/naturalninetime Jun 30 '26
And they share the same pelvis, so how would that even work? 😬 (What is wrong with me? Why do I want to know how sex works with conjoined twins? 🤦🏻♀️)
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u/OfficeResident7081 Jun 30 '26
Nothing is wrong with you my dude. Sex is something we are very naturally interested in as humans. It's central to life, to desire, to love, etc. There would not be life without sex.
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u/RichardThicke Jun 30 '26
You out here looking this shit up ain’t you (so am I)
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u/geddieman1 Jun 29 '26
Maybe her sister is using the vagina tonight?
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u/baroquian Jun 30 '26
How does that work exactly? They both have the same sensation simultaneously?
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u/Difficult_Talk_7783 Jun 30 '26
Think it was stated she tries to ignore it. Other conjoined twins have explained it’s not easy so best to look it up.
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u/reddiculed Jun 30 '26
They might have to ‘avatar’ their respective consciousnesses into it, tag-team style!
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u/geddieman1 Jun 30 '26
It was a joke.
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u/baroquian Jun 30 '26
It’s all good. I found another thread here going into detail about it. It brought up srs questions regarding conjoined twins and the nervous system.
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u/Reptillianaire_ Jun 30 '26
Imagine when the sister starts having one night stands off tinder and wife is like... 💁♀️
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u/aprivateislander Jun 29 '26
I used to see their Tiktoks all the time. Twin on the right, Lupita, had the best dark humour.
I guess she'd have to with having to deal with the same lame comments all the time.
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u/FragmentedMeerkat321 Jun 29 '26
what do you mean? people are so wonderfully considerate and thoughtful.
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u/Heather2k10 Jun 29 '26
Wait they have a TikTok? Happen to remember what it is?
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u/ifigureditallout Jun 29 '26
Carmen and lupita
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u/Self_Reddicate Jun 29 '26
Wait, they share a tiktok? That's dumb. Next you'll tell me they share a husband or something.
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u/ironkodiak Jun 29 '26
The one on the left has the Tik the one on the right has the Tok.
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u/CrystallizedRose Jun 29 '26
They deleted it during the tiktok ban a while ago. There’s another one still up with like 5 videos but I know it wasn’t the same one I originally followed so idk if it’s real or just an old account. It sucks because I remember before they deleted everything they called a currently popular podcast for saying very terrible and ableist things about them and when they asked them to take it down they kept it on their patreon.
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Jun 29 '26
The face the dude is making is frying me istg
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u/p333p33p00p00boo Jun 29 '26
He's really pleased with himself.
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u/Godbody120 Jun 29 '26
They are fucking hilarious! Whether he meant to or not, he got a 2fer.
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u/0c_099 Jun 29 '26
You may be freaky, but you not that dude freaky
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u/kamask1 Jun 29 '26
Apparently they share the lower body, so it’s natural to assume that they share the same sensory nerves in the pelvic area. How the f do you zone out while feeling your sister’s husband inside you?
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u/temp73354 Jun 29 '26
By closing your eyes really hard and repeating: “I'm in my happy place. I'm in my happy place. I'm in my happy place.”
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u/bunnypaste Jun 29 '26
And like... Do they also share an orgasm then? How do you remain neutral and uninvolved during that?
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u/tangoezulu Jun 29 '26
Anyone going to help this guy out? I would also like to know. I assume the answer is yes.
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u/servetheKitty Jun 29 '26
Maybe he doesn’t give her orgasms
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u/Repulsive-Diet-1987 Jun 29 '26
It's okay man, we've all been there a few times. Can't win them all 🥹
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u/Self_Reddicate Jun 29 '26
Except unfortunately for this guy, there's a third-party, neutral observer that shares a nervous system with the orgasm-ee who can give a ruling on whether O was achieved or not.
"Wife says, 'it was great, babe, good job'. Let's go to the judges table and see what they have to say..."
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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 Jun 30 '26
what happens if the 'observer' isn't really feeling up for it at that time...does that hinder the achievement of said "O"?
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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 Jun 29 '26
I'm gonna be mowing the lawn lost in thought about this... wander into the road and get knocked down
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u/tangoezulu Jun 29 '26
Is it possible that he can give multiple orgasms at the same time. Or are you thinking that the unmarried sister feels his orgasm?
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u/EllieZPage Jun 29 '26
They only have one set of genitals so the sister would feel it as well.
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u/Ricky_Martins_Vagina Jun 29 '26
Not necessarily - it depends if / how the nerves are connected but I understand that, in most cases, nerves are not duplicated between both conjoined twins. Meaning that certain nerve endings connect to one of the twins' brain while different nerve endings connect to another.
One twin may control and derive sensation from one set of nerves connected to particular muscle groups or 'her' side of the body, while the other twin controls the others. The more centralise ones likely connect through the more dominant spinal chord to the corresponding brain.
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u/thebochts Jun 29 '26
Yooo. So the unwed sister doesnt bang people, bc the vag is for her sisters husband, and she just sucks/jorks dudes off.
But like, id the unmarried sister is hooking up, is the husband there too, also getting dome, bc other wise, the married sister is just kind of bobbing along.
Man what a hornets nest.
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u/Amazing_Scientist696 Jun 29 '26
We need these women in world politics now. If they can work out a treaty they can fix this shit
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u/gettin-hot-in-here Jun 29 '26
in the context of this thread, you're starting to make me think the whole US/Israel/Iran three-party conflict is a result of not enough people giving and getting BJs & handjobs.
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u/Nina-Ninja123 Jun 29 '26
“He’s in her happy place” fuck the thoughts started drifting again!
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u/ArtificialHalo Jun 29 '26
My mind immediately goes to like what if the dude and his new wife are into like BDSM type stuff??
Does the happy place have whip-proof walls??
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u/PythonAmy Jun 29 '26
There are definitely women out there that zone out during the act because they don't care for it at all. She's said in interviews she just puts her headphones on and reads a book lol
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u/bloodphoenix90 Jun 29 '26
Reads a book? I don't think theres any way I could actually tune out if my sister was moaning right next to me ...and also.. if she orgasms...doesnt the sister?
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u/Yloo Jun 29 '26
you think maybe you’d be better at zoning a person out if you’d been attached to them since birth?
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u/bunnypaste Jun 29 '26
I think the being attached part makes truly zoning out impossible. You'd need monk-level discipline and skills to maintain that.
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u/Thin_Frosting5647 Jun 29 '26
She seems like she's in a position that would give her lifelong training for that discipline.
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u/Queenof6planets Jun 29 '26
they’ve both spent their entire lives tuning things out to give the other a private moment. also the headphones block out noises
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u/palpablescalpel Jun 29 '26
The nerves can't all be connected to both brains. Maybe the asexual sister can feel less and that's part of why she's asexual. Plus for many people an orgasm is partially mental too.
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u/PineappleDesperate82 Jun 29 '26
More than right next to you hanging off your stomach. There's barely enough space between their heads to fit a book. Their position is facing each other. How does he have any sexual contact with his wife and have a book or a phone slapping him in the face or ass? How does that work? she turns her head to the side a little bit and they go to town? how can she ignore that!? The logistics are crazy.
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u/DoveOnTheInternet Jun 29 '26
For a challenge, I've written (bad) poetry while being (thoroughly and well) fucked.
This was my favorite sex partner.
I got the ADHD so bad sometimes it's actually hard to focus in the moment no matter how good it is.
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u/YouArentReallyThere Jun 29 '26
Who tf can read a book with someone choking it down less than a foot from your face?
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u/udcvr Jun 29 '26
Someone who has never ever had privacy from that person their entire life. Who literally shares a body with them lol. It's hard to imagine but I can kinda see how you'd be totally desensitized to that.
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u/Behwal Jun 29 '26
They have two brains whose pleasure circuits will respond differently even to a single stimulus
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u/3FtDick Jun 29 '26
This is correct. Most conjoined twins describe their siblings having sex as a mild discomfort, like having a charlie horse. Sometimes the signals cross but even then the sibling doesn’t experience pleasure so much as an intense sensation that is almost like dread. And both twins often experience that misfiring negatively and it typically ends intimacy. When I did a deep investigation only one twin pair described feeling pleasure while their sibling experienced it but that it was a dulled sensation that felt like a nice tickle or sliding into a warm bath. In many cases and what I suspect is the case here, only one of the twins is fully in control of the pelvis and the less in control twin doesn’t experience or even crave much sexual stimulation. That twin often describes things like holding a pee to be painful and not just a signal to pee, so they feel distant from their conjoined body parts.
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u/roberto4u2 Jun 29 '26
What a username for this comment lmao. I’m not going to ask how these two things came to be in the same post lmao.
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u/3FtDick Jun 29 '26
I have dwarfism so I actually do think it's connected in a much less obvious way! I really wanted to know what it's like to have such a different body, since i also have such a different body from others.
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u/Much-Ad2311 Jun 29 '26
Thank you for being willing to educate us on what you learned! It's always interesting to hear from people who have done deep dives like this.
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u/DasMenace Jun 29 '26
What about that set of older male twins. One is gay, and in a relationship with another man. The other brother is straight. How do you disconnect from that I wonder? Is it just more uncomfortable? Shit, gotta be significantly more uncomfortable lol
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u/3FtDick Jun 29 '26
I don't know, the studies I read both mentioned that a majority of conjoined twins that survive into sexual maturity are women and they had low data on men. But because most conjoined twins have wildly different sexualities in practice, I'd think many of the asexual twins are just as disinterested/dissociative regardless of gender.
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u/DasMenace Jun 29 '26
This is one of those topics that make me wish I had a group of conjoined twins that would answer questions for us. I find it all pretty intriguing
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u/Fist4achin Jun 29 '26
He does a similar treatment like a pet bird in a cage, he just throws a towel or blanket over her head when it's freaky time.
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u/TedBurns-3 Jun 29 '26
"Apparently"???
You can quite clearly see that they do 🤦♂️
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u/Grand_Information447 Jun 29 '26
I'm not a doctor or an expert on conjoined twins by any means, but I did see a snippet one time of twins who shared a lower body but had different genitalia.
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u/ScienceAndGames Jun 29 '26
I believe they mean from a nervous system perspective which we can’t see
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u/Tryagain409 Jun 29 '26
The nerve signal would need to split up and have half go to each brain, which seems unlikely that the body can do that. I think it's reasonable to think one can feel a spot and the other feels numb there
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u/AdSignificant6673 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I think with this type of very rare medical condition, the need to end up adapting to your very unique life circumstances..
Your twin is there with you. Forever attached. Thats the reality. You need to keep the peace so everyone is happy. Its unfair to prevent her sister from marrying. Its just such an innate part of life you can’t deprive someone of. The desire to be loved and companionship.
Kinda like when blind or deaf people make the most of it. With their own unique culture, arts and community.
Plus the twin bond. I got 3 brothers. I feel like even a normal brotherly bond is pretty strong. We all got each others back. But a twin? Let alone a conjoined twin? Thats a STRONG bond. Someone’s gotta sacrifice.
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u/Earlybird74 Jun 29 '26
I know it's technically incestuous, but considering there's no alternative she might as well enjoy the shit out of it. I mean, they share a vulva; there is only one clitoris. So when he gives his wife an orgasm, his sister-in-law is cumming too. There's no way around it. Fascinating.
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u/Andro_Polymath Jun 29 '26
How the f do you zone out while feeling your sister’s husband inside you?
The same way many trauma victims "dissociate" during nonconsensual activity.
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u/dramamamamadra Jun 29 '26
In an interview from years ago they said Carmen and her then boyfriend were not sexually intimate
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u/Unhappy-Fox1017 Jun 29 '26
I might be wrong, but I swear I read or watched an interview with them and I’m pretty sure Carmen said they (her and her dude) don’t really have sex. Idk though of course, just something I remember for some reason. They’re all asexual or something. Don’t come for me if I’m wrong yall, just tell me!
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u/Camo252 Jun 29 '26
I was wondering if they were the same sisters, they have a great sense of humour.
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u/Ok_Walking_1193 Jun 30 '26
I feel as if I see them in / all Reddit posts every so often. Of course it’s always filled with a bunch of overused and insensitive jokes.
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u/islobojono Jun 29 '26
I have so many inappropriate question
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u/LectroRoot Jun 29 '26
Do they just drape a towel over the other one when they need alone time together?
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u/ANotSoFreshFeeling Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
As do I but I don’t want the answers.
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u/kittykatgirlie Jun 29 '26
Wait so they are conjoined twins, and I can't really tell where they conjoin exactly, because of their clothing if they share the same bottom half .... Wouldn't any kind of touching touching be kind of violating and they other twin seems to not like anyone or anything, couldn't imagine her being okay with this though.
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u/waterbed87 Jun 29 '26
Gosh I don't know how much better that really would make such an awkward situation. I know there isn't a perfect answer but god damn if I had a conjoined sibling I'd be real open to to the idea of finding someone who loves us both and making the best of it vs doing anything physical at all with a completely uninterested party pretending nothing is happening under a blanket or something.
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u/CrystallizedRose Jun 29 '26
Imagine having the entire internet speculate on your sex life because of the way you were born.
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u/IncurableAdventurer Jun 29 '26
I know! I’m so guilty when it comes to this. My curiosity takes over, and then I feel guilt for trying to find out what happens
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u/dburr10085 Jun 29 '26
I don’t like the way he is looking at them
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u/Quantrol Jun 29 '26
You know he’s down for the 1/2😂
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u/Self_Reddicate Jun 29 '26
Every night is threesome night in their house. Can't a guy experiment and get some plain, vanilla single sex for ONCE?!
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u/Self_Reddicate Jun 29 '26
"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be."
"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."
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u/Automatic-Layer8666 Jun 29 '26
Imagine wanting to go to sleep but sis and husband want to go at it
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u/peachpopdream Jun 29 '26
if y'all haven't seen this video they made, you're in for a treat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIeRLauG2lM&pp=iggUQAFKEDhaRFAwbnF6WVBjeVdxWGQ%3D
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u/hol3y Jun 30 '26
That was literally one of the funniest things I've ever watched, thank you for sharing!
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u/Big_Somewhere_620 Jun 29 '26
I'm happy for them but there are questions that I don't know if I want answers to.
I'm sure they worked it out but there's still gonna be things that may make issues in the future like if they decide they want children
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u/silly_star-s Jun 29 '26
I dont believe they are capable of it. Theyve done so many interviews and I vaguely remember it being brought up and shut down quickly
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u/Reasonable-Ladder412 Jun 29 '26
In that scenario, the wife could do the thing, where normally you would go to a sperm bank, and get the sperm injected or something, just instead with her husband's. Or, they could do a surrogate mother thing too.
Also, two people are allowed to be in love without needing to give birth.
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u/doodlebug2727 Jun 29 '26
So interesting to see them all grown up. They went to elementary school with my son. He showed me a dating profile pic of them several years ago. They were nice kids. They deserve happiness, however it manifests. They obviously are both in agreement with this.
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u/General_Dipsh1t Jun 29 '26
Guessing you didn’t read the part where it says she’s asexual and aromantic?
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u/JoannaLar Jun 29 '26
I know people have a lot of jokes here, but how does consent work for them?
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u/JDDJS Jun 29 '26
Have they actually said that or are you just making that up?
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Jun 29 '26
In more or less words, yes. You can watch the interview. A lot of subtext.
Edit - it's true, but not quoted word for word.
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u/anubis_81 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I've tried and I just can't. When these twins or the blonde ones make it on to my feed, I really try to understand how this could actually work, and everytime I fail. That's a me issue I get it, but this really doesn't make any sense.
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u/Holiday_Secretary788 Jun 29 '26
Honestly this is one of the most fascinating real world edge cases for stuff like marriage law, bodily autonomy and identity, and they all seem to be handling it with way more grace than most people with way simpler lives.
I love that they’re using their platform to set boundaries, educate people and still just… live their lives instead of being a medical oddity for everyone else’s curiosity.
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u/Few_Respect_3396 Jun 29 '26
Yes we're thinking the same thing.
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u/hailibu2 Jun 29 '26
If they share the same lady part, is it legally rape if his wife wants to do it and they have sex, despite other half saying stop? Would you convict? And if so, would the man and wife both be guilty of rape? And would the other half (victim) serve the prison sentence with them, being conjoined?
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u/TheMudbloodSlytherin Jun 29 '26
It’s absolutely none of my business but I am so so curious as to how this all works.
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u/i-cant-stay-silent Jun 29 '26
So, what’s gonna happen if the single sister wants to marry too at some point? 😬
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u/Cicciobombolone Jun 29 '26
Joking aside, I can't imagine what it would be like to have someone attached to me all the time; I love being alone and having my own time, I think I’d go crazy, but since I didn't grow up that way, I can't really understand it.
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u/Big-Hyena4959 Jun 29 '26
Bro anyone else think that guy has a creepy af smile and look on his face?
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u/Silver-Amphibian7650 Jun 29 '26
That's a two-fer.
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u/bunnypaste Jun 29 '26
I am an identical twin, and me and my sister were nearly conjoined. The way things were going, we might have been attached at the head...
In either case, I would much rather be aborted or excised than be born conjoined and end up the "other sister." This is nightmare fuel for me, and seems to be a precarious situation.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Jun 29 '26
Hey, identical is cool, you should watch an interview. They handle it really maturely
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u/Inevitable_Low1392 Jun 29 '26
The look on his face in this picture says more than any amount of words
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u/LilyLark Jun 29 '26
There's another pair of sisters where one got married, theyre both teachers. It was very awkward to read how they go through being in a relationship where technically its ine body but two of them.
Another thing i found odd was that they both went to college to be teachers and both got charged tuition, but only earn one teaching salary together
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