Six-fingered brides

**Salty Ears** · 03-12-2023, 01:15 PM

Six-fingered brides were very common before the revolution in the Vyatka province - it was believed that such women were more economic and handy, this is generally a common mutation, found in 1 out of 500 newborns - but an extra finger is now usually amputated in the maternity hospital.

According to the Doctor of biological Sciences Sergey Savelyev (who receives a lot of criticism), there were 5 or 7 villages in the Vyatka province with a six-fingered population due to such selection, while the first Russian magazine dedicated to eugenics was published there.

Can you imagine creating a family, a relationship with a six-fingered person, or is it an aesthetically unpleasant feature, an ugliness for you?

**Salty Ears** · 03-12-2023, 01:25 PM

This was well known among the broad masses of the people; there was a six-fingered village in the Grodno province, and brides and grooms were very valued in the district, as they gave six-fingered offspring, which exempted them from military service

**Cybele** · 03-12-2023, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Salty Ears

Can you imagine creating a family, a relationship with a six-fingered person, or is it an aesthetically unpleasant feature, an ugliness for you?

More than the aesthetics, I wonder how much polydactyly affects negatively the quality of life an individual like in performing manual tasks for e.g. or that of his/her children (if they inherit it). And if it is associated with other symptoms/ genetic conditions.
In here, is not common and there was no such thing as actively selecting partners with polydactyly for reproduction. So, the chances of meeting such a man and start a family with him would be low.