Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

My brother is a year older than I am. We were
very fond of each other. When I was in seventh
grade we got very sexually involved. He told me
all about sexual intercourse. Every day after
school we would go to his room and talk and fondle
one another. He had some rubbers and asked
if he could have sexual intercourse with me. I
almost let him do it, but it was too painful. He
was very gentle and he said he wouldn’t do it.
Sometimes we would play rape and I would be in
his room and held run in. We would fight and
finally held rip my clothes off. This was one of
our favorite games.
One day my brother (age thirteen) quite by accident,
found a stack of old “Playboy” magazines
in my dad’s closet and showed them to me. We
never had too much time to look at them because
we weren’t left alone often.... After we’d
looked at them several times, my brother started
asking me if I looked like the girls in the pictures.
I replied that I didn’t but he kept pestering
me. Finally he suggested that we pretend
that I was the model and that he was the photographer.
He coaxed me, saying it would be fun and
besides, ‘nobody would know except us’.... At
first I just took off my clothes, but then I
decided it wasn’t quite fair, so he took off
his, too, when I threatened to quit playing.
Pretty soon the novelty of just looking at each
other wore off, so he decided we should touch
each other. By this time I was a little curious,
too, so we agreed to ‘feel each other’ for
thirty seconds at a time. I suppose this was my
earliest encounter with mutual masturbation. He
told me that he enjoyed it when I ran my fingers
over his penis; however, I (a preadolescent)
didn’t get any pleasure out of doing it
and enjoyed his exploration even less.
Preadolescent-Other Adult Sexual Encounters
Sexual situations involving the preadolescent and adults other than
parents vary from society to society. Among the Siwams of Africa all
men and boys engage in anal intercourse. Males are singled out as peculiar
if they do not indulge in these homosexual activities. Prominent
Siwam men lend their sons to each other, and they talk about their masculine
love affairs as openly as they discuss their love of women. Both
married and unmarried males are expected to have both homosexual and
heterosexual affairs. Among aborigines of Australia this type of coitus
is also a recognized custom between unmarried and uninitiated boys.
(Ford and Beach, 1951, p. 132).
Among the Aranda pederasty is a recognized custom. (Strehlow 1915
as reported by Ford and Beach, 1951, p. 132). Commonly a man, who is
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