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'''Incest between twins''' is a subclass of sibling [[incest]] and includes both [[heterosexual]] and [[homosexual]] relationships. In traditional [[Bali]]nese culture, for example, a set of [[twin]]s of the opposite sex were forced to marry each other, since it was assumed that they had had sex in utero.<ref>Jacobs, A. J., ''The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World'' (2004), p. 142, Simon & Schuster</ref> In traditional [[Mohave]] culture, opposite-sex twins were thought to have been married in heaven.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Devereux |first=George |year=1941 |title=Mohave Beliefs concerning Twins |journal=[[American Anthropologist]] |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=573–92 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28194110%2F12%292%3A43%3A4%3C573%3AMBCT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D |accessdate=2007-05-28 |quote=Twins of the opposite sexes are believed to have been spouses in heaven. |doi=10.1525/aa.1941.43.4.02a00060}}(p. 578)</ref> |
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'''Incest between twins''' or "'''twincest'''" is a subclass of [[sibling incest]] and includes both [[heterosexual]] and [[homosexuality|homosexual]] relationships.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wagner|first1=Roy|title=An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology|date=2001|page=53}}</ref> |
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== In Asia == |
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In a review of the scholarly literatures on twin homosexuality and twin incest, Ray Bixler concludes that "most same sex homosexual twins, if reared with their co-twins, do not attempt or even want to seduce them in adulthood".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bixler |first=Ray H. |year=1983 |month=August |title=Homosexual Twin Incest Avoidance |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=296–302 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4499%28198308%2919%3A3%3C296%3AHTIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V |accessdate=2007-05-24 |doi=10.2307/3812342}}</ref> |
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In traditional [[Bali]]nese culture,{{when|date=December 2013}} it was common for a set of [[twin]]s of the opposite sex to marry each other, since it was assumed that they have had sex in utero. The standard anthropological explanation of this custom is based in explications of the conflicts between [[Cultural heritage|descent]] and affinity in Balinese society.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boon|first=James A.|title=Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture and Indo-European Culture|year=1990|publisher=Chicago University Press|isbn=978-0-226-06463-5|pages=113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEp1lzmyceYC&q=incest%20twin&pg=PA207}}</ref> |
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His study draws on [[Edvard Westermarck]]'s hypothesis that sexual desire is generally absent in relationships between members of a [[nuclear family]].<ref>[[Edvard Westermarck|Westermarck, Edvard]] (1922). ''The History of Human Marriage'', Vol. II. New York: Allerton, p. 193.</ref> |
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Incest was commonplace in [[Southeast Asia]]n [[creation myth]]s which prominently featured twin or sibling couples. In these stories, the brother usually wooed and wed his sister, who bore his child or children, but on discovering that they are siblings, they are often (but not always) forced to part.<ref>{{cite book|last=Errington, Atkinson |first=Shelley, Jane Monnig|title=Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia|year=1990|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=0-8047-1781-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/powerdifferenceg00atki/page/227 227]|url=https://archive.org/details/powerdifferenceg00atki|url-access=registration |quote=incest twins. }}</ref> |
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One case of incest between twins, in which a pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies later married without knowing they were brother and sister, was mentioned in a [[House of Lords]] debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in January 2008. According to the charity Adults Affected by Adoption, there had been other cases of this sort that had involved siblings.<ref>{{cite news |title=Parted-at-birth twins 'married' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7182817.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-01-11 |accessdate=2008-05-18}}</ref> The story was widely publicised in the British press, although its truthfulness was called into question.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Henley |title=Did a pair of twins really get married by mistake? |url=http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2240924,00.html |work=[[guardian.co.uk]] |date=2008-01-15 |accessdate=2008-05-18}}</ref> |
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Twin incest is a prominent feature in ancient Germanic mythology, and its modern manifestations, such as the relationship between Siegmund and Sieglinde in [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Die Walküre]]'', and a feature in some [[Greek mythology]], such as the story of [[Byblis]] and [[Kaunos (mythology)|Kaunos]]. There are strong parallels between the Germanic portrayals of twin incest and those of the Balinese [[Ramayana]], and some scholars have speculated an early [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] link.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boon|first=James A.|title=Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture and Indo-European Culture|year=1990|publisher=Chicago University Press|isbn=978-0-226-06463-5|pages=107|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEp1lzmyceYC&q=incest%20twin&pg=PA207}}</ref> |
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The theme also appears in [[English literature]], such as the incest between the twins Polydore and Urania in [[Delarivier Manley]]'s ''[[The New Atalantis]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pollak|first=Ellen|title=Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814|year=2003|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0-8018-7204-4|pages=103|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heN14DHX_IIC&q=%22incest%22%20%22twins%22&pg=PA103}}</ref> |
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Other depictions of or references to it can be found in [[fanfiction]] (where it is usually referred to as "twincest" [a term used by Noah Dillon]),<ref>{{cite journal |author=Green, Leila, and Carmen Guinery |year=2004 |month=November |title=Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon |journal=M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture |volume=7 |issue=5 |url=http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0411/14-green.php |accessdate=2007-02-02}}</ref> traditional [[folklore]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hammond-Tooke |first=W. D. |year=1992 |title=Twins, Incest and Mediators: The Structure of Four Zulu Folk Tales |journal=Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=203–220 |doi=10.2307/1160455 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9720(1992)62%3A2%3C203%3ATIAMTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E |accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref> erotic and pornographic magazines and videos, [[advertising]], and even mainstream films. In the latter two cases, incestuous relationships between twins are usually only implied and almost always used for a shock effect. |
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One supposed case of incest between twins, in which twins who were adopted by separate families as infants later married without knowing they were brother and sister, was mentioned in a [[House of Lords]] debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in January 2008. According to the charity Adults Affected by Adoption, there had been other cases of this sort that had involved siblings.<ref>{{cite news |title=Parted-at-birth twins 'married' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7182817.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-01-11 |access-date=2008-05-18}}</ref> The story was widely publicised in the British press,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/shock-for-the-married-couple-who-discovered-they-are-twins-separated-at-birth-6682411.html|title=Shock for the married couple who discovered they are twins separated|date=2008-01-11|publisher=The Evening Standard|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> although its truthfulness was called into question.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Henley |title=Did a pair of twins really get married by mistake? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/15/familyandrelationships.jonhenley |work=[[guardian.co.uk]] |date=2008-01-15 |access-date=2008-05-18}}</ref> In a 1983 review of the scholarly literature on twin homosexuality and twin incest, Ray Bixler concluded that "most same-sex homosexual twins, if reared with their co-twins, do not attempt or even want to seduce them in adulthood".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bixler |first=Ray H. |date=August 1983 |title=Homosexual Twin Incest Avoidance |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=296–302 |doi=10.1080/00224498309551190 |jstor=3812342}}</ref> His study drew on [[Edvard Westermarck]]'s [[Westermarck effect|hypothesis]] that sexual desire is generally absent in relationships between members of a [[nuclear family]] due to the [[Westermarck Effect]].<ref>[[Edvard Westermarck|Westermarck, Edvard]] (1922). ''The History of Human Marriage'', Vol. II. New York: Allerton, p. 193.</ref> |
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The fantasy fiction series ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' describes a secret relationship between [[Jaime Lannister|Jaime]] and [[Cersei Lannister]], who are [[fraternal twins]]. Within the setting of the books, various historical characters from [[House Targaryen]] were married to their siblings.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}} |
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*In [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|The Ring of the Nibelung]]'', twins [[Sigmund|Siegmund]] and [[Signy|Sieglinde]] commit incest at the end of Act 1 of ''[[Die Walküre]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gilman |first=Sander L. |year=1998 |title=Sibling Incest, Madness, and the 'Jews' |journal=[[Social Research]] |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=408–09 |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n2_v65/ai_20964259/pg_1 |accessdate=2007-02-02}}</ref> The offspring of this union is Siegfried, the hero of the next operas in the Ring cycle, [[Siegfried (opera)|''Siegfried'']] and ''[[Götterdämmerung]]''. |
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*In [[Melvin Burgess]]'s novel [[Bloodtide]], which, like "Die Walküre", is based upon the [[Volsunga Saga]], the Volson twins Siggy and Signy share an incestuous sexual encounter which leaves Signy pregnant. However, Siggy is unaware that it is his sister, since she is in the guise of another character, Cherry. |
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The Japanese series ''[[Yosuga no Sora]]'' features heavy depiction of romance and sex between twins Haruka and Sora. |
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*Incest between twins figures prominently in [[Thomas Mann]]'s 1905 [[novella]] ''Wälsungenblut'' (''The Blood of the Walsungs'').<ref>{{cite journal |last=Luzes |first=Pedro |year=1990 |month=February |title=Fact and Fantasy in Brother-Sister Incest |journal=International Review of Psycho-Analysis |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=97–113 |url=http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=irp.017.0097a |accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref> |
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*''[[The House of Yes]]'' features [[Parker Posey]] and [[Josh Hamilton (actor)|Josh Hamilton]] as fraternal twins Jacqueline and Marty, whose incestuous relationship is complicated by Marty's engagement to Lesly ([[Tori Spelling]]). |
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*In the film ''[[Cruel Intentions 2]]'', identical twins [[Alicia and Annie Sorell]] kiss during a [[nudity in film|nude shower scene]] with actor [[Robin Dunne]]. |
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Twincest has been a recurring theme in [[gay pornography]] since the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Maureen |title=Incest Is the Fastest Growing Trend in Porn. Wait, What? |url=https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a18194469/incest-porn-trend/ |website=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |access-date=12 March 2023 |date=28 February 2018}}</ref> In 2009, Elijah and Milo Peters, then-19-year-old Czech identical twin brothers, gained notoriety for having sex with one another in gay pornographic films for [[BelAmi]]. According to them, they developed a romantic and sexual relationship with each other at age 15 and sent photos of themselves to BelAmi at age 18, saying they were open to having sex with each other on camera. BelAmi's videos featuring the twins originally involved little contact between them, but gradually escalated to featuring [[Non-penetrative sex#Manual sex|manual sex]], [[oral sex]], and [[anal sex]]. Their popularity led to the traffic on BelAmi's website doubling in 2009 and a tour of gay nightclubs in Florida.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Thomas |title=Gay porn's most shocking taboo |url=https://www.salon.com/2010/05/21/twincest/ |website=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |access-date=12 March 2023 |date=21 May 2010}}</ref> Maureen O'Connor of ''[[Gawker]]'' called the Peters twins "the most famous twincest stars" in 2012, while Graham Gremore of ''[[Queerty]]'' referred to them as "perhaps the most famous pair of gay twin lovers" in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Maureen |title=Could This Gay Male Twin Fuck Story Possibly Be Real? |url=https://www.gawker.com/5885722/could-this-gay-male-twin-fuck-story-possibly-be-real |website=[[Gawker]] |access-date=12 March 2023 |date=16 February 2012 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206201200/https://www.gawker.com/5885722/could-this-gay-male-twin-fuck-story-possibly-be-real |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gremore |first1=Graham |title=Hot Homoerotic Twins Have Us Seeing Doubles |url=https://www.queerty.com/photos-hot-homoerotic-twins-have-us-seeing-doubles-20140518 |website=[[Queerty]] |access-date=12 March 2023 |date=18 May 2014}}</ref> |
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*In the book "De uanstændige" by the Danish writer [[Leif Panduro]], the protagonist twin couple has an incestuous relationship with each other. |
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*In [[Bertolucci]]'s movie [[The Dreamers (film)]], twins Isabelle and Theo have a very close, incestuous relationship, although it is not revealed if they engaged in [[sexual intercourse]]. They are not shown to do anything directly passionate, but bathe and sleep together in the nude. |
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*[[Trey Parker]], the creator of [[South Park]], recorded a song in 1985 on a cassette tape ''Immature: A Collection of Love Ballads for the '80s'' titled ''Twin Brothers In Love''. |
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* [[Incest]] |
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*In [[George R. R. Martin]]'s series of novels, [[A Song of Ice and Fire]], an incestuous relationship between twins Cersei and Jaime [[Lannister]] is a major plot point and is described in explicit detail throughout the series. |
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* [[Incest in the Bible]] |
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* In [[Anne Rice]]'s [[Blackwood Farm]], the Twins [[Tarquin Blackwood|Tarquinn (Quinn]]) and "Goblin" had a sexual relationship. His spirit would try to do sexual acts on his twin. While Quinn was not in love with his brother, it is enough for some{{Weasel-inline|date=August 2008}} to think that Goblin does think of Quinn romantically. |
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* In another one of [[Anne Rice]]'s books, [[The Witching Hour (novel)|The Witching Hour]] there was a set of twins who had a child together. |
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* In the movie ''[[EuroTrip]]'', twins Jamie and Jenny, kiss each other at a night club after drinking [[absinthe]], although this is entirely due to their inebriation, and both are horrified and humiliated upon realizing who their partner is. |
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* In Marvel Comics Andreas and Andrea Strucker the twin children of villain [[Baron Strucker]] were lovers prior to Andrea's murder (a fact [[Baron Zemo]], a family acquaintance, confirms by saying they had run out of sexual positions to try). The bizarre undertone of the incestuous relationship between the twins has become a minor but recurring plot element in the Thunderbolts comic series of which Andreas is a main character. |
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* In Ultimate Marvel Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver the twin children of [[Magneto]] have an incestuous relationship. |
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* In the book ''[[The God of Small Things]]'', fraternal twins, Esthappen and his sister Rahel have sex. |
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Incest between twins or "twincest" is a subclass of sibling incest and includes both heterosexual and homosexual relationships.[1]
In Asia
[edit]In traditional Balinese culture,[when?] it was common for a set of twins of the opposite sex to marry each other, since it was assumed that they have had sex in utero. The standard anthropological explanation of this custom is based in explications of the conflicts between descent and affinity in Balinese society.[2]
Incest was commonplace in Southeast Asian creation myths which prominently featured twin or sibling couples. In these stories, the brother usually wooed and wed his sister, who bore his child or children, but on discovering that they are siblings, they are often (but not always) forced to part.[3]
In Europe
[edit]Twin incest is a prominent feature in ancient Germanic mythology, and its modern manifestations, such as the relationship between Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre, and a feature in some Greek mythology, such as the story of Byblis and Kaunos. There are strong parallels between the Germanic portrayals of twin incest and those of the Balinese Ramayana, and some scholars have speculated an early Indo-European link.[4]
The theme also appears in English literature, such as the incest between the twins Polydore and Urania in Delarivier Manley's The New Atalantis.[5]
One supposed case of incest between twins, in which twins who were adopted by separate families as infants later married without knowing they were brother and sister, was mentioned in a House of Lords debate on the Human Fertility and Embryology Bill in January 2008. According to the charity Adults Affected by Adoption, there had been other cases of this sort that had involved siblings.[6] The story was widely publicised in the British press,[7] although its truthfulness was called into question.[8] In a 1983 review of the scholarly literature on twin homosexuality and twin incest, Ray Bixler concluded that "most same-sex homosexual twins, if reared with their co-twins, do not attempt or even want to seduce them in adulthood".[9] His study drew on Edvard Westermarck's hypothesis that sexual desire is generally absent in relationships between members of a nuclear family due to the Westermarck Effect.[10]
In fiction
[edit]The fantasy fiction series A Song of Ice and Fire describes a secret relationship between Jaime and Cersei Lannister, who are fraternal twins. Within the setting of the books, various historical characters from House Targaryen were married to their siblings.[citation needed]
The Japanese series Yosuga no Sora features heavy depiction of romance and sex between twins Haruka and Sora.
In pornography
[edit]Twincest has been a recurring theme in gay pornography since the 1970s.[11] In 2009, Elijah and Milo Peters, then-19-year-old Czech identical twin brothers, gained notoriety for having sex with one another in gay pornographic films for BelAmi. According to them, they developed a romantic and sexual relationship with each other at age 15 and sent photos of themselves to BelAmi at age 18, saying they were open to having sex with each other on camera. BelAmi's videos featuring the twins originally involved little contact between them, but gradually escalated to featuring manual sex, oral sex, and anal sex. Their popularity led to the traffic on BelAmi's website doubling in 2009 and a tour of gay nightclubs in Florida.[12] Maureen O'Connor of Gawker called the Peters twins "the most famous twincest stars" in 2012, while Graham Gremore of Queerty referred to them as "perhaps the most famous pair of gay twin lovers" in 2014.[13][14]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wagner, Roy (2001). An Anthropology of the Subject: Holographic Worldview in New Guinea and its meaning and significance for the world of anthropology. p. 53.
- ^ Boon, James A. (1990). Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture and Indo-European Culture. Chicago University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-226-06463-5.
- ^ Errington, Atkinson, Shelley, Jane Monnig (1990). Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia. Stanford University Press. pp. 227. ISBN 0-8047-1781-8.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Boon, James A. (1990). Affinities and Extremes: Crisscrossing the Bittersweet Ethnology of East Indies History, Hindu-Balinese Culture and Indo-European Culture. Chicago University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-226-06463-5.
- ^ Pollak, Ellen (2003). Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-8018-7204-4.
- ^ "Parted-at-birth twins 'married'". BBC News. 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ "Shock for the married couple who discovered they are twins separated". The Evening Standard. 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ Henley, Jon (2008-01-15). "Did a pair of twins really get married by mistake?". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ^ Bixler, Ray H. (August 1983). "Homosexual Twin Incest Avoidance". The Journal of Sex Research. 19 (3): 296–302. doi:10.1080/00224498309551190. JSTOR 3812342.
- ^ Westermarck, Edvard (1922). The History of Human Marriage, Vol. II. New York: Allerton, p. 193.
- ^ O'Connor, Maureen (28 February 2018). "Incest Is the Fastest Growing Trend in Porn. Wait, What?". Esquire. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ Rogers, Thomas (21 May 2010). "Gay porn's most shocking taboo". Salon. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ O'Connor, Maureen (16 February 2012). "Could This Gay Male Twin Fuck Story Possibly Be Real?". Gawker. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ Gremore, Graham (18 May 2014). "Hot Homoerotic Twins Have Us Seeing Doubles". Queerty. Retrieved 12 March 2023.