Perhaps GSA accounts for Kevin Gates’s attraction to his first cousin. Though the research is scarce, those who have studied GSA offer a range of possible explanations for it, including a primordial feeling of always having “belonged” to the estranged relative, a sense of wanting to experience the bonding missed out on during childhood, or simply an overwhelming closeness based on similarities: like meeting a mate who was designed for you in a science lab. According to an article in The Guardian, experts estimate that these taboo feelings occur in about 50 percent of cases where estranged relatives are reunited as adults ( GSA’s discoverer had herself become attracted to the son she’d adopted out when she met him 26 years later, but her feelings were not reciprocated). In the late ‘80s, the founder of a support group for adopted children who had recently reconnected with their biological relatives coined the term “Genetic Sexual Attraction” ( GSA) to describe the intense romantic and sexual feelings that she observed occurring in many of these reunions. Photo: Laurence Mouton/PhotoAlto/Corbis Illustration: Konstantin Sergeyev
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