Are siamese twins committing adultery if they get married?

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Logically there are only 3 outcomes for these women legally if you ignore all other church teachings
  1. adultery (because one would be committing a sexual act with another’s spouse)
  2. polygamy (because the man would be married to two people)
  3. sexual violence (because the woman would have to submit sexually to someone she did not love)
 
Another possibility is that one of the twins is merely a bystander. Suppose the genitals are connected by sensory nerves to only one of the two heads. The other twin could, in principle, be like a discreet roommate who can hear the couple making love, yet she minds her own business and is not a participant.

There may be other possibilities.
 
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RandomAlias said:
Another possibility is that one of the twins is merely a bystander. Suppose the genitals are connected by sensory nerves to only one of the two heads. The other twin could, in principle, be like a discreet roommate who can hear the couple making love, yet she minds her own business and is not a participant.

There may be other possibilities.
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I’m guessing you’ve never been the other roommate. Not very pleasant, very very awkward
 
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I am not saying it would be easy, but rather possible.
 
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RandomAlias said:
Another possibility is that one of the twins is merely a bystander. Suppose the genitals are connected by sensory nerves to only one of the two heads. The other twin could, in principle, be like a discreet roommate who can hear the couple making love, yet she minds her own business and is not a participant.

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Uhh no. They each are able to feel and control half the body. Even if only the genitals carried sensation the rest of their body would be subject to a sexual act. Courts have determined there need not be sexual penetration for something to count as sexual violence.
 
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(To the question: What happens when one of the twins decides he wants a divorce?)

What happens to a family when the parents get divorced?

There are a hundred what-if scenarios.
 
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(To the question: What happens when one of the twins decides he wants a divorce?)

What happens to a family when the parents get divorced?
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That is an imperfect comparison because the children are not directly involved in the free will of the sexual relationship.
 
Daisy and Xanthippe, I have enjoyed this dialogue but I am going to slip out soon. I don’t know the answer to every question. I have attempted to approach the question at the basic level of “love God and love one another,” rather than starting from interpretations of that law together with the expectations and customs that we all have. Sometimes I have found this approach useful, and if I had a week to discuss it, no doubt I would learn something new about Catholic doctrine, morality, and marriage.

Also thank you, jdavani, for bringing up this very interesting question.

God bless.
 
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There sure are a lot of responses for something that will likely never happen, and as I pointed out, the Catholic Church has not ruling or doctrine specific to address. There are a lot of opinions as well. 😐

The closest thing we have to Church teaching on this in my own opinion is that which Pope Francis recently gave us. Namely, that we must not try to fit people into rigid categories. If anyone ever defied such rigidity it would have to be someone(s) that are both one person and two persons. Darned if I know what would be best, but wouldn’t this be the very case where spiritual discernment would be useful?
 
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Sometimes what-ifs are useful in giving insight into other situations.

I read that they both are hoping the right man comes along. I hope the right answer theologically comes along before then. Here are my leanings…

Let’s say one of them got married and then pregnant. It would take a DNA test to determine who the mother is. Weird.

And in the act of marriage, would only one experience arousal and consummation? How would the other twin “stay out it”?

I am not in that situation and do not have the answers. When I don’t have answers, if I am pressed, I go back to where I do have answers. Here, all I can say is, “Oh look! A squirrel!” and then run out of the room while everyone is distracted.

This is one for greater minds than mine.
 
More practically, what if you are in a social situation and someone introduces you to Mr. and Mrs. Jones…and her sister? Or the Jones and the Adams? It would feel weird. Is that feeling justified or is it just because I have never been in that situation before? Why would it feel weird? Because deep down I know it’s wrong or because deep down I have something that dislikes the situation unjustifiably? In either case I would be called to Christian love. Does that mean I blurt out that their marriage(s) are illegitimate if I have come to that conclusion? No.
 
I don’t know the exact answer either. But to me, there is an element of coersion, which would invalidate a marriage, and there are three free wills involved, which to me, is adultury. This is my immediate instinct, of course. I could be wrong.

Yes, it is a very interesting topic, I’ve considered the difficulty when watching the famous and very capable Siamese twin girls who are now adults. Sorry to see you leave the convo, Random. I didn’t mean to be forceful with my opinion.
 
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I am not in that situation and do not have the answers. When I don’t have answers, if I am pressed, I go back to where I do have answers. Here, all I can say is, “Oh look! A squirrel!” and then run out of the room while everyone is distracted
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🐿️

Time to run.
 
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… Sorry to see you leave the convo, Random. I didn’t mean to be forceful with my opinion.
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I’m still lurking. I just don’t have much more to say.

And don’t worry about sharing your beliefs or opinions. The only kind of forcefulness I dislike in the forums is when someone has to control the thread and get the last word on everything. I didn’t see anything like that here.

And hey, what’s with the thread being Unlisted? I haven’t seen that before. I think it means that the thread is not shown in the Latest or New topics, and so has no way of attracting new participants. We must have pushed someone’s buttons!
 
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Unlisted is new to me.

It occurs to me that there may be only one such set of twins in the world and here we are discussing their private part. Parts. Marriage. Hopefully they are not offended, and neither is their family. It may not be known, but this is the internet.

I think it demonstrates compassion that the thread cannot be seen by those not on it, and at the same time concern for us as we wrestle with the issue. Nicely done, I say.
 
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