Good time to plug Dara O'Brian: don't do that. One day you're gonna have kids and need these words in their normal context. Your kid is gonna come in with muddy shoes and you're all "oh my. You're a dirty girl." and then you'll ask yourself wtf you just said to your own kid.
Some words and expressions need to stay with their original meaning! These include:
It’s a joke an the futility of linguistic prescriptivism. I might not have represented it well but the whole punchline is that this ship has sailed long ago.
i remember glancing over an interesting article about this. it was saying that this whole step-fad doesn’t really have anything to do with the person being related to you, it’s more about the taboo. the attraction isn’t the relation, it’s that it’s taboo to be attracted to them at all.
and something about the perceived pre-existing relationship adding to the sense of intimacy and taboo-ness, can’t really remember the details there.
there was more about how other taboos have become over saturated in the industry and this one is in this sweet spot of not too taboo for your average person.
i now wish i’d saved this article, but i truly never thought i would need to recall this information.