Infant and Child Sexuality: A Sociological Perspective - Ipce

then sounded a warning if parents were approaching.
I was in the seventh grade. There were only couples
there. We ate and danced for a while and
then everyone sat on the couch with the lights
out and kissed.
The slow songs and dim lights seemed like
heaven, with a stiff penis being the first pleasurable
sign. Sometimes the girl and myself
would hold each other tighter as the songs progressed
and many times, about half way through a
song, we would start to touch bottoms and really
hold each other tight--oh, I hoped the songs
would never end. This sometimes led to makingout
after a few songs or just holding hands, but
whatever it was, it was really “neat.”
Mutual Masturbation
Boy-girl mutual genital fondling is not a common experience of preadolescence
in the United States, but it is not completely unknown to
this age.
Coitus
We both had reached the ripe old age of
twelve.... Sexual experimentation was not new to
me, nor to him.... We both left our houses that
evening after dark and met secretly at the “swamp
road.” We kissed for awhile and both of us became
increasingly excited. This led, in turn, to the
unfastening of our clothes and the placement of
his hand on my breast. Gradually his little hand
crept downwards, beneath my pants until he was
gently stroking my mons veneris and clitoris. He
wanted to “finger” me but I resisted firmly, as a
girl had to draw the line somewhere! Now he posed
a rather surprising question. He wanted “me” to
touch “him.” He exposed his erect little penis
and pulled my hand toward it. At the thought of
touching it I trembled, but managed to do so. I
think I was the first girl in seventh grade to
actually “feel out” a boy as this was previously
unheard of. We continued to mutually masturbate
for a while and then I decided that it was time
for me to go home. The significance of this
encounter lies in the fact that for the first
time, one of my common childhood sexual experiences
had suddenly become really sexual and the
action was tinged with my first feelings of
guilt. I suffered a great deal following this
incident for fear of losing my reputation.
Coitus or attempted coitus does take place among preadolescents in
American society, although such behavior is generally taboo. There are
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