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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kirsta_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirsta-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Genetic_sexual_attraction&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term was popularized in the United States in the late 1980s by Barbara Gonyo, the founder of Truth Seekers in Adoption, a Chicago-based support group for <a href="/wiki/Adoption" title="Adoption">adoptees</a> and their new-found relatives.<sup id="cite_ref-Kirsta_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kirsta-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gonyo first heard the term used during an <a href="/wiki/American_Adoption_Congress" title="American Adoption Congress">American Adoption Congress</a> conference in the early 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She developed sexual feelings for her son when she met him after he was adopted away, but he did not want to be part of any such contact.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Psychologists theorize that the reported phenomenon of attraction to biological relatives separated at a young age occurs because the separation forecloses the <a href="/wiki/Westermarck_effect" title="Westermarck effect">Westermarck effect</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ABC_News_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC_News-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which normally desensitizes biologically related persons to later sexual attraction.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC_News_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC_News-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another suggested explanation for the phenomenon is possible <a href="/wiki/Narcissism" title="Narcissism">narcissistic</a> feelings.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although reported frequently in the field of psychology,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> there are some studies showing that people are sexually attracted to those genetically similar to them. Studies of <a href="/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex" title="Major histocompatibility complex">MHC</a> genes show that people are attracted to those genetically similar to them.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in mice, this lack<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag needs further explanation. (October 2024)">further explanation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> of attraction can be reversed by adoption.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Catherine MacAskill, an adoption and <a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse">child sexual abuse</a> expert, has suggested that "genetic sexual attraction" cases seem to be associated with sudden unplanned meetings which lack the proper safeguards of a thoroughly prepared reunion.<sup id="cite_ref-Macaskill2002_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Macaskill2002-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Genetic_sexual_attraction&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Critics of the hypothesis have called it <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a <i><a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)">Salon</a></i> piece, <a href="/wiki/Amanda_Marcotte" title="Amanda Marcotte">Amanda Marcotte</a> called the concept "half-baked pseudoscientific nonsense that people dreamed up to justify continuing unhealthy, abusive relationships".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The use of "GSA" as an initialism has also been criticized, since it gives the notion that the phenomenon is an actual diagnosable "condition".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many have noted the lack of research on the subject. While acknowledging the "phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction", <a href="/wiki/Eric_Anderson_(sociologist)" title="Eric Anderson (sociologist)">Eric Anderson</a>, a sociologist and sexologist, noted in a 2012 book that "[t]here is only one academic research article" on the subject, and he critiqued the paper for using "Freudian <a href="/wiki/Psycho-babble" class="mw-redirect" title="Psycho-babble">psycho-babble</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson2012_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson2012-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Genetic_sexual_attraction&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assortative_mating" title="Assortative mating">Assortative mating</a>, preferential mating between individuals with similar characteristics</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Genetic_sexual_attraction&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Genetic_sexual_attraction&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Pennsylvania State University: Russell House. p. 81. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-903855-09-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-903855-09-6"><bdi>978-1-903855-09-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Safe+Contact%3F%3A+Children+in+Permanent+Placement+and+Contact+with+Their+Birth+Relatives&rft.place=Pennsylvania+State+University&rft.pages=81&rft.pub=Russell+House&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-903855-09-6&rft.aulast=Macaskill&rft.aufirst=Catherine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D1YwbAQAAMAAJ%26q%3D%2522genetic%2Bsexual%2Battraction%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGenetic+sexual+attraction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEdwards2004" class="citation journal cs1">Edwards, Jeanette (December 2004). "Incorporating Incest: Gamete, Body and Relation in Assisted Conception". <i>The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</i>. <b>10</b> (4): 773. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-9655.2004.00210.x">10.1111/j.1467-9655.2004.00210.x</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3803853">3803853</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+the+Royal+Anthropological+Institute&rft.atitle=Incorporating+Incest%3A+Gamete%2C+Body+and+Relation+in+Assisted+Conception&rft.volume=10&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=773&rft.date=2004-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1467-9655.2004.00210.x&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F3803853%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Edwards&rft.aufirst=Jeanette&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGenetic+sexual+attraction" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Anderson2012-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Anderson2012_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEric_Anderson2012" class="citation book cs1">Eric Anderson (7 February 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bYsVDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Freudian+psycho-babble%22&pg=PA48"><i>The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love, and the Reality of Cheating</i></a>. 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Women and Psychology. Taylor & Francis. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781315536361" title="Special:BookSources/9781315536361"><bdi>9781315536361</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Adopted+Women+and+Biological+Fathers%3A+Reimagining+stories+of+origin+and+trauma&rft.series=Women+and+Psychology&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9781315536361&rft.aulast=Hughes&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGenetic+sexual+attraction" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVaknin2014" class="citation book cs1">Vaknin, Sam (2014). <i>A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible</i>. 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