Kimmers' Taboo Tuesday Read: April 12, 2016
On this Taboo Tuesday I find myself reflecting back on an article I read recently. A mother and son, who had not seen one another since she gave him up for adoption some 30 years ago, found themselves falling instantly in love after their first meeting.
In this article, on First to Know, they mentioned a phenomenon known as GSA or Genetic Sexual Attraction. GSA is a sexual attraction between close relatives, such as siblings or half-siblings, a parent and offspring, or first and second cousins, who first meet as adults.
As I researched this syndrome I found that this happens more often than we probably realize. In fact it is reported in a full 50% of reunion cases between adults separated by early adoption.
There is even a forum/support group to help educate people about, as well as provide support to, those in GSA relationships. http://www.gsaforums.com/
So I found it more than fitting this week to bring you Mel Thorn’s Never Mind the Genetics (Double Helix #1).
Not knowing he had a son, Kevin meets Andrew at age 17 when his mother brings him to live with Kevin.
Both men soon find something bright and unexpected in their developing relationship.
They discover the true meaning of love. All be it a very different kind of love.
BLURB:
Since breaking up with his high school girlfriend seventeen years ago, Kevin had no idea that he had left something precious behind with her. Now at age thirty-five, his success has brought him everything in life that he might need– all except companionship. Since his birth seventeen years ago, Andrew and his mother haven’t had a very peaceful relationship. Born into a family that couldn’t afford him, and haunted him with threats of violence, he hoped and wished for a better life– a life with the father he had never met. After years of bickering and bitterness, Andrew’s mother takes him not only to meet, but live with his long, lost parent. What Andrew expects is a cold shoulder, but what he gets instead is a warm welcome. Kevin’s gentle demeanor and sweet words are all it takes for Andrew to understand the true meaning of what it is to be loved, but something else– something bright and unexpected– blossoms from their growing friendship: a very different kind of love. Never Mind the Genetics is the first book in the series Double Helix.
