Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

attempts at fellatio. Other cases involve mutual masturbation and anal
sex.
I (approximately nine years old) masturbated with
the neighbor boy. Not performing the act on each
other but being in the same room together. This
went on until one day he told me what a “blow
job” was and wanted me to give him one. I made a
feeble attempt at it but I thought it tasted
awful.
At age eight we (two boys) exposed ourselves to
each other and took turns putting our noses
between the two portions of each other’s buttocks
close to the rectum. We enjoyed the smell
experience and probably the physical contact. In
another particular episode I inserted my finger
into my friend’s rectum.
When I was ten years old, a number of new houses
were going up where my friend lived, and we quite
often played inside them when no one was working.
One day I was directly below my friend, and
we could see each other through a hole, about
four inches in diameter, in the ceiling. The idea
came to me that he should try and stick his penis
through the hole although I believe I used the
word “cock.” He did this without difficulty, and
I pulled a stepladder over below him. I climbed
the ladder and after touching his penis a couple
of times I told him that we should switch. I
remember that he decided to grab my organ and
pull to which I immediately objected. This
exchanging of position must have been going on
for about five minutes when he urinated on my
hand. This is what ended the encounter.
Some homosexual encounters involve limited touching or fondling and
some are fleeting; some involve group participation.
Another form of physical homosexuality in my
youth came with the desire to touch another
boy’s genital area. We did this in an effort to
hurt each other. In the toilet or outside somewhere,
we would try to hit each other in the
genital area.
When I was about twelve, I had a completely
different experience concerning homosexuality.
About six of the boys got together one night and
we had a ‘circle jerk.’ A ‘circle jerk’ is when
the boys stand around in a circle holding on to
the boy’s penis in back of him.
I (age 12) was invited to an all boy slumber
party at one of my friend’s homes.... I laid
down next to Jim, and we talked for a long time
and I remember scratching his back and then I
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