Although Barbara Gonyo agrees that acting on these feelings would be a horrible mistake she acknowledges that in adoption reunion “emotionally you are the adult, and they are the child. If you go through with the sexual act, then I hold the parent responsible, not the child.”

I think what Barbara Gonyo was trying to get a across is that those experiencing genetic sexual attraction need support and there needs to be a sensitivity to the attraction that adoptees and natural parents may have for each other.

The bottom line to all the guest comments and the segment was that people are attracted to other who look and think like them. When relatives meet that they did not grow up with the normal controls are not there and they may feel and intense desire for the other person.

The segment focused around a half brother and sister who had the same father. They didn’t know each other growing up but had met as adults at the age of 27. They were in love and had been having a sexual relationship.

Some may see Adam’s comment as being negative and some may agree with him by saying that they can see how people might feel attracted to relatives they did not grow up with but to act on it once it is known you are related is incest. Those that agree with Adam may see that there are people you do not have sex with no matter how you feel and once the line is crossed from thought to action that it is incest. Some may even you an analogy that pedophiles do not feel what they do is wrong either.

As I wrote in a previous blog on genetic sexual attraction is that this is different from incest as the term genetic sexual attraction is used to describe the intense physical and emotional feelings that some people experience following contact natural family.

My previous blogs on this subject can be found at http://birthfamily-search.adoptionblogs.com/?cat=575.