But after Ford, who was living in the United States, sent his England-born mum a letter out of the blue in 2013, the pair began forming an unusual mother-son bond.
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As its name suggests, GSA is a type of sexual attraction experienced by close relatives, including a parent and his/her child, who met as adults.
The front page of New Day, which was the first to report on the story of Kim West and Ben Ford’s affair. However, her son’s unresponsiveness towards her attraction meant she never acted on it. According to The Genetic Sexual Attraction Forum, some studies of GSA suggest that feelings of more than just a familiar level occur in up to 50% of all post adoption reunions.
Kim West, 51, and her son Ben Ford, 32, have been in a relationship for two years and are planning to get married and try for a baby together. Upon the reconnection, they discovered that they were attracted to each other and have been in a relationship since then, enjoying “incredible and mind-blowing” sex.
Before the two were in correspondence, Ford was married to a woman named Victoria, who he later left for his mother. Mr Ford told her he felt relieved and said he had stopped having feelings for his wife.
The pair insist their relationship is not incest, according to the New Day.
As incest is illegal in the state of MI, the couple is willing to move to another state.
She wrote a book “I’m his mother but he is not my son” about the lust she felt for the adult son she had given up for adoption 26 years earlier.
West came back to United Kingdom after her son was adopted and her relationship didn’t work out.
We are like peas in a pod and meant to be together.
Pioneering research by American author, Barbara Gonyo described situations in which people separated from relatives at a young age experience strong sexual feelings when they are reunited.
The law in MI, which West and Ford were probably unaware of when they made their bold proclamations of love, has prompted authorities to begin investigating their relationship.
Three days later Ben told a disgusted Victoria he was leaving her for his mum and the couple flew to MI, where they had help from another GSA couple in setting up a new life.
He also told his wife the only he achieved orgasm when they had sex was by thinking of his birth mom. After, they reunited, they…um….err….fell in love.
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However, GSA is rare between people raised together in early childhood due to a reverse sexual imprinting known as the Westermarck effect, which desensitizes them sexual attraction.
