Is it lust, is it poverty or it's just plain mad?
Africa's ethics are fast going to the dogs and morality has reached its lowest point.
A Zimbabwean man was arraigned before the Mutate Civil Courts last week on charges of attempted rape.
The 32 year old man is being accused of attempting to rape his 51 year old mother on more than one occasion.
He is believed to be crazily in love with the beauty of the woman who have birth to him.
The case was heard when Future Matya bared her disappointment when she was seeking a protection order against Severino Mhosva, her biological son.
She also asked the magistrate to evict him from her house as he had proved too difficult to live with. He is being accused of stealing from her.
The accused chose not to attend the court case but magistrate, Ms Notebulgar Muchineripi heard the case in his absence.
His mother, who carried him in her womb for nine months, said he had attempted to be intimate with her on countless occasions.
"I have never heard of a son who lusts after his own mother. He knocks on my bedroom door all night, begging me to let him in. I cannot take it anymore and want him out of my house.
"I no longer have peace in my own house. I bought a residential stand and toiled to build the house after his father's death, now he wants to evict me from my house," said the elderly woman who believes that Mhosva is harassing her to force her out of her house.
The son was once arraigned before the same court on charges of attempted murder. This after he stabbed his mother with a knife for denying him sex.
Ms Muchineripi granted the protection order in Matya's favour.
But this all raises the questions of morality. How can a son lust after his biological mother to such an extent? Is it mental illness or stupidity or there is a traditional hoodoo that's haunting the boy? Because this just is not normal.