Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

a horror house in the garage and tried again. As
I did before, I conned a few of the neighbor
girls into coming into my horror house in the
garage and proceeded to molest two other girls.
In the second case, a five year old girl is involved with an older
sexually aggressive boy. She does not express the same repressive morality
but nevertheless reacts negatively to aggression; whereas she
does not react negatively to non-aggressive sex play with her kindergarten-aged
boy friend, Bill.
A disturbing event came to the front at the age of
kindergarten. The instigator was a boy from the
neighborhood, four years my senior, whom we will
call Tom. At our age, my friends and I were unaware
of his sexual problem--extensive sexual aggressiveness.
One afternoon in the neighborhood playhouse
he “depantsed” me and pulled down his own pants. No
negativism existed in my reaction for I had seen a
penis many times before. Evidently he had never
been exposed to a girl’s sexual parts for he forced
me to keep my pants down. The second encounter did
bother me. The boy across the street, we will call
him Bill, and I were close friends and the two of
us went over to Tom’s house to play, and Tom locked
us in the bedroom. We could only go if we exposed
ourselves physically to each other. I had seen Bill
many times without clothes on, for in the summer we
swam without suits in my outside pool until we were
about three years old. We undressed and Tom immediately
fondled Bill’s penis and then tried to touch
my labia, and I either cried or screamed and he
stopped. A fear existed because sex had never been
forced upon me. I think where I became confused was
that at home nakedness was common, accepted and
associated with good thoughts. This situation was
conflicting because of the force involved, and I
immediately and have always disliked Tom. However,
Bill and I had a typical kindergarten romance. As
others, we were in love and wanted to get married
some day.
In the third case, a girl is repelled by the proposition of two
aggressive adolescent boys partly because of her earlier conditioning
and partly because of feeling physically trapped and being expected to
touch a boy who is ostensibly physically ill at the time.
A little girl friend and I spent one summer afternoon
playing at her house. I think I was about
seven years old and I must admit that I had led a
very sheltered life. Her mother was gone for the
afternoon and her two older brothers were there.
They must have been fourteen or fifteen at the
time. One of them was sick in bed that afternoon.
It was about time for me to go when one of the
girl’s brothers called me into the bedroom of the
sick boy and locked the door behind us. I can still
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