Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

we quit after a while and went into the living
room. Then one day we found ourselves playing in
the basement on the bed. He asked me if I had
ever been “fucked” before. I said no. Then he
said that it was really important that every boy
be able to say that he had “fucked” a girl and
would it be all right if he “fucked” me.
Oral Sex
Reevy (1967) reports that mouth-genital contacts have occurred in 2
percent of the cases of girls and 8.9 percent of the cases of boys who
have had heterosexual play experience.
After stripping girls, beginning in the second
and third grade, my curiosity led me to touch,
smell, and eventually taste that hole.
Homosexual Activity
A number of students of preadolescent behavior have reported on the
kinds and incidence of homosexual behavior. Among eight year old boys,
Alpert (1941) reports sex behavior consisting of mutual exploration of
a homosexual and heterosexual sort, such as matching masculine prowess
in the toilet, peeping, smutty jokes, provocative giggling, some masturbation,
obscene language, and “secrets” about “boy-girl” favorites.
Much the same behavior is observed in older preadolescents.
In some societies, along with our own, tendencies toward homosexual
behavior are strongly proscribed during childhood. Cuna children
are prohibited from indulging in homosexual play. If Trukese boys masturbate
in the presence of other members of their sex they are whipped.
Chiricahua children who are observed to engage in any heterosexual or
homosexual play are severely punished, and the Sanpoil thrash soundly
any child who exhibits behavior that is at all suggestive of homosexual
tendencies. (Ford and Beach, 1951, p. 129).
On the other hand, among the Koniag some male children are reared
from infancy to occupy the female role. They learn women’s crafts, wear
women’s ornaments, and become skilled in wifely duties. When such a
male is mature he becomes a “wife” of one of the more prominent males
in the community. He is usually credited with magical powers and accorded
a great deal of respect. (Ford and Beach, 1951, p. 131). Among
the Trobriand Islanders, children’s sexual encounters include masturbation
and oral stimulation of the genitals of the same sex, as well as
of the opposite sex.
In the Ramsey study (1943), approximately half of the boys who had
been involved in preadolescent homosexual play had confined their relationship
to one other boy. The remaining boys with homosexual experience
reported from two to ten partners in their encounters. The
partners were, except in rare instances, boys of approximately the same
age. The frequency of homosexual play ranged from a single experience
to a maximum of over 400 times. Manual techniques were most frequently
reported, but oral and femoral contacts also were engaged in. The following
case involves two boys masturbating in each other’s presence and
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