Child sexuality
Child sexuality is a little-researched topic. This is due to most research being carried out in Western anglophone countries, where the subject of children engaging in sexual activity is taboo, and any such sexual activity (or even research on child sexual activity) is automatically considered to be "inappropriate".
Children in the past were considered to have agency and could engage in sexual activity with others, including adults. The vast majority of such sexual relationships caused absolutely no harm to the children -- it is only in the past 40 years or so that child sexually activity has become stigmatized [1]
Third-wave feminists[2], radical feminists[3], and right-wing Republicans[4] have (falsely) denied that children are sexual beings, and continue to (unjustly) condemn and to criminalize adults who engage in sexual activity with minors.
Sexologists[5] are well aware that children are sexual beings, but, due to attacks from the above-mentioned groups, they remain cowardly silent as they fear the damage to -- or the complete loss of -- their careers.
In the Netherlands, Theo Sandfort performed research on young boys (adolescent boys and pre-adolescent boys) who were involved in sexual relationships with adult men, and reported on his research. The results showed that the boys fully enjoyed the sexual relationships they had with the men, and felt that any harms were cause by the attitudes of society and not by the relationships with the men or the sexual activities.
Kinsey[6] also studied child sexuality, and he was fiercely attacked for having done so. He found that even very young children are normally sexually active, and capable of sensual enjoyment, and can even experience orgasm.
Larry Constantine also studied child sexuality in 1983.
There have been tangential studies (studies not directly studying adult-child sexual activity) in other countries which confirm that "children" (minors) are sexually active, and usually suffer no harms from engaging in sexual activity, as long as the sexual activity is not forced or strongly coerced.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stigma
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_wave_feminism
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexologist
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_report
Relevance to BoyLovers
BoyLovers are condemned for engaging in sexual activities with young boys, though research has demonstrated [1] that usually no harms result to the boys from such activities, aside from any harms of a sociogenic nature.
References
- ↑ A meta‐analytic review of findings from national samples on psychological correlates of child sexual abuse, Bruce Rind , Philip Tromovitch, Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 34, Iss. 3, 1997; https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/adcorr_txt.htm. A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples, in: Psychological Bulletin 1998, Vol 124, No 1, pp 22-53; https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.htm. A replication of the meta-analytic examination of child sexual abuse by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998), Ulrich, Heather; Randolph Mickey & Acheson, Shawn; https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/rbt_replica/frame.htm.
See also
- Pedophilia, Science and Self-Deception
- America's War on Sex
- MHAMic
- Research (books)
- List of boylove-related publications
- Larry L Constantine
- sexophobe
- antisexual
- sociogenesis
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External links
- The Sexual Life Of Children by Floyd M. Martinson (may be read on-line at this link)
- "The Effects of Early Sexual Experiences: A review and Synthesis of Research" by Larry L. Constantine, from Children and Sex by Constantine & Martinson (eds) (.PDF file for downloading)
- A Chronology of Sex Research
- Childhood Sexuality: Normal Sexual Behavior and Development by Theo Sandfort
- Download of the above here:
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) - chapter 5 - Early Sexual Growth and Activity
- The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia; an account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea by Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
- THE SEXUAL RIGHTS OF CHILDREN: IMPLICATIONS OF A RADICAL PERSPECTIVE by LARRY L. CONSTANTINE
- The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship by Matthew Waites
- The Magical Age of 10
- Harmful to Minors
- Normative Sexual Behavior in Children: A Contemporary Sample
- Harming Children in the Name of "Child Protection": How Minors Who Have Sex with Other Minors are Abused by the Law and Therapy' by Andrew Heller; From the book Censoring Sex Research - The Debate over Male Intergenerational Relations edited by Thomas K. Hubbard & Beert Verstraete; Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA; 2013 (several pages missing - I hope to fix that soon-User4)
- 'The Main Thing Is Being Wanted'
- The Trauma Myth
- The Quality of Adolescent Sexual Experiences
- MURRAY & ROSCOE, BOY-WIVES & FEMALE HUSBANDS
- Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn from the Greeks?
- Censoring Sex Research: The Debate over Male Intergenerational Relations eds. Hubbard, Thomas K., & Verstraete Beert
- Social Response to Age-Gap Sex Involving Minors by Bruce Rind
- Growing Up Sexually - World Reference Atlas (website)
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