So incest is okay now? This is the most disgusting thing you'll read all day.

"I'm in love with my son, and I want to have his baby." This comes from a 51 year old woman who is reportedly in love with her 32 year old son, and intends to get pregnant by him.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - Over thirty years ago, a young Kim West gave her son up for adoption. After reuniting, the pair reported they felt a strong sexual attraction to one another and fell in love. Now, with their story in the media spotlight, they are facing public allegations of incest, and have reportedly gone into hiding.

So is this really such a bad thing? Both are consenting adults and this is just another case of "Genetic Sexual Attraction."

Wait, what?

That's right. It's no longer incest. Now it's Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA).

You see, by relabeling incest as a psychological phenomenon, it now becomes okay, or at least explainable. Maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on the happy couple, hoping for a baby?

According to the psychologists, GSA occurs when close biological relatives, such as offspring, siblings or cousins, meet for the first time as adults. These people feel an intense mutual attraction and can hardly control themselves after the family reunion. Nobody knows why it happens or quite what to do about it. Supposedly the feelings are so intense, the couple can't hardly control them. It rips apart families and invites incredible shame on the couple.

Researchers say that GSA does not happen with people who grow up together because they be come desensitized to their partner as a sexual partner. However, in reunion cases, the rate of GSA can be as high as 50 percent.

So apparently this is a common phenomenon. However researchers say most people are ashamed by it and suppress their urges because they appreciate that such behavior is wrong.

The issue with Kim West and her son, is that West expressed a desire to pursue their relationship publicly and to have children with her son.

As humans, we have impulses all the time. Sexual impulses are significant because they're always there, nudging us to cheat on our spouses or to behave promiscuously. Other impulses push us to drink, to curse, to gamble, so skip work or church, and to generally misbehave. This is part of the human experience. But in order for a society to function, we must put aside these impulses and say no. It's expected that everyone from the age or two or three and above is capable of resisting the temptation to act out or misbehave. We rightly hold each other accountable for when we fail.

But here is a movement to justify incest. While we can understand that incest can be provoked by explicable psychological phenomena, so too can we explain why people lie, cheat and steal, and commit terrible crimes such as pedophilia. Shall we excuse these offenses too on the basis we can explain them? Shall we pardon the child rapist because that's just how their brain works?

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No!

There's good and bad behavior. Bad behavior must always be punished, which is essential to justice. It's how we maintain a just and civil society. Just because a person has an impulse does not justify its satisfaction.

The attempt to change incest from taboo to something we have to accept is a moral change we cannot allow. Incest is a violation of both judicial law and natural law, and the fact we can slap a new name on the behavior does not make it any less repulsive.

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