A woman in her 50s has defended her sexual relationship with her biological son, describing the pair as 'like peas in a pod' and 'meant to be together'. Kim West gave birth to Ben Ford when she was a 19-year-old student in California but placed him for adoption a week later before returning to the UK.
More than 30 years passed without contact until Ben, then married and living in Colorado, tracked down his biological mother in 2013. What began with letters and phone calls intensified, and when they met in person in 2014, they quickly began a sexual affair. Ben later said the encounters were so 'mind-blowing' that he told his then-wife Victoria he could no longer be intimate with her unless he imagined she was his mother.
Kim acknowledged feeling jealous of Victoria and said Ben's wife called her 'mummy girlfriend'. Despite the threat of a potential 15-year prison sentence, the couple spoke of plans to marry and have children, using surrogacy if necessary. They rejected the label of incest, instead attributing their relationship to 'Genetic Sexual Attraction' (GSA), a phenomenon where relatives who meet as adults experience sexual attraction due to missed intimacy earlier in life.
Ben claimed he never saw Kim as a mother, only as a sexual partner. Kim insisted, 'This is not incest, it is GSA. We are like peas in a pod and are meant to be together.' She acknowledged public disgust but argued, 'when you're hit by a love so consuming you are willing to give up everything for it, you have to fight for it.' It is not known if the relationship continues or if they married or had children.
