Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

In both of the following cases, as well, erotic advances are made
to a female child by an adolescent male, but the advances are not markedly
aggressive or exploitative. In both cases the female child demonstrates
her socialization into adult repressive sexual roles.
When I was seven years old my parents asked a
thirteen year old boy to come and “sit” with me
while they went out.... He got on top of the
covers next to me. After trying to sleep I
turned around to tell him to quit squirming
because I couldn’t sleep, when I noticed his
pants were unzipped and his penis was out. Being
a seven year old, I bluntly told him that that
was not nice and that he better get off my bed.
From my kindergarten year, there is one
particular incident which stands out in my mind.
It involved my uncle, who was about sixteen, and
me. My parents were out for the evening and he
was baby-sitting. I was ready for bed and he
came in and asked me if I wanted a back rub. I
said yes, and I lay down on the bed. He rubbed
my back for awhile and after he had done this
for a few minutes he pulled down my pants. He
told me not to say anything and then he
proceeded to examine and finger my genital area.
He said that he just wanted to see something. I
don’t exactly remember my reactions, although I
know I was too embarrassed to tell my mother
about it.
Since the preadolescent or adolescent who initiates a sexual encounter
with a child is usually known by the child and by the child’s
parents, he dare not be too aggressive or feel the need to be devious
because he will otherwise be exposed, embarrassed, and perhaps punished.
The first case to follow is a case of such deviousness.
I (a twelve year old male) was curious about the
little girls’ genital system and I proceeded to
suggest a game where I could explore this area.
We turned off the lights and I played the role
of monster. The other children were to run
around the room and keep away from me. When I
caught them I would supposedly eat them. The
game went fine and I achieved what I had set out
to do--to find out what the little girl’s penis
felt like when I squeezed it. As the children
ran from me I would catch a boy and throw him
down and pretend I was eating him and give him a
little hit in the rump or on the leg, but when I
caught Tina, the little girl, I immediately
grabbed her vaginal area with my whole hand and
rubbed and squeezed it a couple three times.
While I did this I distracted her attention from
my grip by mumbling a few monster groans and
yelling “I’m going to eat you.” Later, I set up
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