Have to say they don't look very real, at this point.
Some greedy Outback veterinarian probably did it with instructions off youtube.
Posted on 03/21/2016 8:23:58 AM PDT by wagglebee
You might think that this is grotesque. I certainly think it is grotesque. But should we be so judgemental about the unorthodox connubial arrangements of Anna and Lucy Decinque, 31-year-old identical twins who are sharing a bed with their 32-year-old electrical mechanic boyfriend Ben Byrne?
The trio have lived together for the last four years in Perth, Western Australia, with the girls’ mother.
The girls are inseparable, so much so that they have spent A$240,000 on various cosmetic improvements to look even more alike. They imitate each other and share everything. Even their boyfriend.
When Anna and Lucy appeared on the SBS current affairs program Insight last week, they announced that they wanted to become pregnant at the same time, even if one or the other had to use IVF. "[We] just have to be pregnant at the same time," one said. "Yeah, we just want to be the same in everything," the other chimed in.
Relationships with separate boyfriends had always failed, they said, "because we're with each other 24/7, every single day, every minute of our life together". So Ben treats them equally and they form a happy family.
So the question is: if the Australian Marriage Act is amended to allow homosexuals to marry, why can’t Anna, Lucy and Ben have their sincere love and tested commitment for each other recognised? It seems outrageously unfair to leave them unhitched and unhappy. After all, unless their polyamorous love is recognised by the majesty of the law, they will always be regarded as a freak show.
To a certain extent, still untested in the courts, they already are a de facto thruple. They have been living in a “marriage-like relationship” for more than two years, which is the condition for constituting a de facto couple in Western Australia. Ordinarily, a third woman (or man) in such a relationship would enter it later and the law would probably insist that only the original pair possesses the rights arising from a de facto relationship.
But because the Decinque twins have insisted on doing everything together, their relationships with Ben began simultaneously. It seems unfair that only one of them can have access to property, government benefits or care of children in the event of death or a relationship breakdown. Surely authentic equality means giving even this peculiar ménage a trois an opportunity to get married.
The bigwigs of the marriage equality movement in Australia say that they are absolutely -- cross their hearts and hope to die -- opposed to everything poly except Polynesia. But isn't it time that they woke up to the reality of diverse family structures in Australia today? Surley the lived experience of Anna, Lucy and Ben suggests that society needs to move beyond the antiquated dyadic hegemony they are promoting in their campaign for same-sex marriage.
A grotesque prospect? I agree. But that is the inexorable logic of the push for same-sex marriage. If all love is equal, why not polyamory?
Laz would hit it TWICE!!!!
I have known several pairs of identical twins over the years (all girls/women, oddly enough) ... none of them needed any surgery to look like her twin.
I’ve known identical twins. There are usually slight variations that one can notice, particularly after a period of time. Some are more easily seen.
I meant being legalized, but you make a good point. In fact, your point makes my prediction more likely.
A quick glance at the vid indicated to me they did the cosmetic more to look Hollyweird than identical (duck lips, etc). Not cute...
Not my idea of beauty.
all one of the sisters has to do is tell the courts that she self-identifies as the other sister (IE She believes, in her sick twisted adulterous mind, that she is her sister)- that way it will be a normal two person marriage because now anyone can identify as anything or anyone they choose and society has no right to question it apparently
They must have lotsa dough to spend a quarter mil to look nasty, LOL.
The Man marries one sister and she marries her sister
Since the man is married to only one woman, it is legal. A sister wedding a sister might be incesteous but there is thus no bigamy
Yes. It sounds like narcissism combined with obsession. What a waste of money.
There’s still bigamy, being committed by the sister who’s married both to her sister and to the guy.
Thanks. I didn’t want to bother with the link.
I wonder if they get headaches at the same time?
Polygamy is an ancient and quite stable social arrangement, as long as you have large land armies to soak up all the leftover young men. I am certain polygamy will be legal in the US as soon as the Supreme Court takes an on-point case.
Polyandry, on the other hand, has never worked and cannot ever work, because the men involved will kill each other or commit suicide in short order.
Or as Groucho Marx would say:
“Bigamy? Why, thatsa big a-you!”
That’s still bigamy because the one sister is married to two people- but if she self identifies as a poodle, then the other two would only be charged with bestiality- but hey- who are we to judge? And at least there will be no icky bigamy going on- Perhaps one woman could self-identify as a deceased person- that way it would only be necrophilia- (and as in the days of Noah- everyone did what was right in their own eyes)
Have to say they don't look very real, at this point.
Some greedy Outback veterinarian probably did it with instructions off youtube.
Nor might that be construed as ‘incestuous’, as the sisters cannot ‘formally’ fornicate/reproduce. More stigma opposition than biological.
I mean, if we’re going to take bizzaro logic to its bizarro conclusion...
SMH, coming to a legislature near you.
I think a man who had to live with two wives might come close to killing himself...not everything is what it’s cracked up to be ;-)
-JT
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