Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce
Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce
Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce
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Literature<br />
One indirect method utilized by adults in teaching about sex is<br />
through literature. Adults unable to speak openly about sex have found<br />
this to be one method of fulfilling what they regard as their obligation<br />
to provide sex instruction. Sometimes such literature is adequate<br />
<strong>and</strong> is appreciated. In other cases it is not. Frequently, of course,<br />
sex literature not approved by adults falls into the h<strong>and</strong>s of the<br />
young.<br />
Misery likes company, so I (age twelve), teamed<br />
with an equally as ignorant friend, consulted<br />
some paperbacks that she had found in her dad’s<br />
drawer. One of the stories was about a married<br />
woman who wanted to become pregnant. When her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> objected, she went to her neighbor who<br />
was her previous boyfriend, <strong>and</strong> asked him to be<br />
the father. This man said he was ready anytime,<br />
all she had to do was let him know by biting the<br />
tip of his tongue when he thrust it into her<br />
mouth. Aha, I thought, now I know how a boy lets<br />
you know he wants intercourse--he’ll just thrust<br />
his tongue into your mouth.<br />
(Five years later) I was infatuated with my<br />
date, very tired <strong>and</strong> quite intrigued at the idea<br />
of making out. So when he l<strong>and</strong>ed his first kiss<br />
<strong>and</strong> thrust his tongue into my mouth--oh, God,<br />
no, I thought, he wants intercourse!!! I pushed<br />
him away <strong>and</strong> escaped into the night. It was<br />
embarrassing later when my girlfriends told me<br />
that you exchanged tongues to French kiss!!<br />
I don’t know why but I always had funny feelings<br />
inside whenever we looked at them (preadolescent<br />
girl looking at her father’s sex<br />
literature on the sly with her adolescent<br />
brother). The very fact that they hid the magazines<br />
that contained pictures of nude or seminude<br />
girls meant it wasn’t ‘good’ or ‘nice.’<br />
While his parents were gone we (eleven years<br />
old) proceeded to go into his parents’ bedroom<br />
<strong>and</strong> opened the bedside cabinet to pull out the<br />
most recent publications of Playboy. This was<br />
the first time I had ever seen the magazine in<br />
the open sense. We proudly gazed at the naked<br />
beauties <strong>and</strong> gasped at the size of their<br />
breasts. Both of us began to raise huge erections....<br />
Later on, when we decided to go to<br />
bed, we thought we better look at them once more<br />
<strong>and</strong> maybe we could dream about them.... We again<br />
achieved an erection.... My friend was greatly<br />
amazed at the size of my erection <strong>and</strong> asked me<br />
if he could touch it. I told him yes <strong>and</strong> afterwards<br />
I felt very bad <strong>and</strong> remembered that I had<br />
heard that when another boy plays with your<br />
penis he is queer.<br />
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