Re: GSA Finale

["Richard Fay" <RichardFay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken,

I only saw two posts, your original and final post regarding GSA. Could you
please sum up in a post just what you found out about genetic sexual
attraction?

I attempted a web search using general search engines and the World Wide Web
Resources for Social Workers with no good hits.

Thank you,

Richard Fay MSW

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Prescott" <krprescott@earthlink.net>
To: "Child Maltreatment Researchers"
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 PM
Subject: GSA Finale


> Thank you to all who posted on the question of Genetic Sexual Attraction.
I
> hope those who did not understand the term were, like me, educated by the
> posts that were informative.
>
> In posting the topic, I was hoping to get a definition and to find out how
> widely the problem was recognized.
>
> Interestingly the Child-Maltreatment Research List won the category of
more
> informative postings.  The ATSA (Association for the Treatment of Sexual
> Abusers) list won the category of posting related to scratching their
heads
> and saying they never heard of it before.  (This is where I was.)
>
> The thing that is interesting is that ATSA has sexual offense and
offenders
> as a professional focus and they did not recognize GSA.  That could mean
> that this is a small problem, or that GSA is a problem that is typed
> differently, or that there is a low level of legal intervention, or any
> number of similar explanations.
>
> The people who responded with information from Child Maltreatment seemed
to
> come from the fields of research and post adoptive services.  I did get
one
> off list email from a post adoptee who had researched and experienced the
> phenomena herself.
>
> Having received all of this information, I have enough to satisfy my
> curiosity.  Thanks again!
>
> Ken Prescott, MSW, LCSW
> Los Angeles, California
>