From: quadibloc@ca.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:06:41 -0800, The Horny Goat wrote:   
      
   > I read one article suggesting strongly that the blood tests that used to   
   > be required in many states before issuance of a marriage licence was not   
   > so much about minimizing consanguineous marriages but rather to avoid   
   > marriages where one or both partners had an active case of one or   
   > another venereal disease and if positive to hustle them off to treatment   
   > "muyo pronto" (which did not of course prevent sexual contact outside   
   > marriage but to give people information they didn't already have)   
      
   What you read was correct. Back then, they didn't even _have_ DNA testing.   
      
   John Savard   
      
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