Are there any countries that allow a brother and sister to marry if at least one of them is permanently sterile?

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I have heard speeches condemning discrimination on various grounds, with the orator providing a list of grounds for discrimination, and the list ending with “who you love.”

If a man and woman have the same biological mother and the same biological father, and they are in love with each other, then what prevents them from asserting that laws against incest are discriminating against them?

Assuming that at least one of them is permanently infertile, there is no utilitarian argument against their marriage based on effects on potential offspring.

Future developments in reproductive technology could conceivably allow a sperm that contains an X chromosome to be the genetic material in an artificial human egg. Future technology might permit a same-sex married couple of two brothers to produce their own offspring. If the technology arrives before there are laws forbidding such reproduction, then it might be possible to persuade them to not produce offspring in that manner, but there would be no way to legally forbid them from doing so.
 
I don’t know if any country permits marriage between siblings, but the way our society is going it doesn’t make a difference since so many people now just co-habitat.
 
If Wikipedia can be trusted, there are a bunch of countries where consensual incest is legal – including Cote d’ivoire in Africa, China, India and Israel.

Not sure if that applies to marrying someone also, but the sex at least is OK.
 
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