Do young children really experience some kind of sexuality?
Brunod, Regis
Do young children really experience some kind of sexuality? - 2020.
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It is commonly accepted, even by eminent medical authorities, that human sexuality is a function present from birth onward, the mode of expression varying with age. My professional experience as a physician treating children with developmental disorders – and as a legal expert – has led me to question this assertion and to ask the following question: Why should sexuality not follow a comparable mode of development to that of other areas of development during children’s growth? Specifically, this would include the preconditions necessary for the implementation of the function itself (which are called prerequisites, for example the skills a baby must acquire before it can walk or speak).I have documented this hypothesis by examining several areas of child development with regard to adult sexuality: sensory and motor skills, various cognitive functions, as well as affects and emotions.From a developmental point of view, all these sectors can be considered areas that will contribute to love and sexual life when the time comes, and therefore as preambles to it, without being sexuality in itself. By dissipating all confusion between anatomical sex at birth and its function at maturity, that is to say sexuality, this point of view defines a period before puberty that is not yet sexualized, and thus clearly rules out any intrusion of adult sexuality into the world of childhood, in any form whatsoever.
Do young children really experience some kind of sexuality? - 2020.
53
It is commonly accepted, even by eminent medical authorities, that human sexuality is a function present from birth onward, the mode of expression varying with age. My professional experience as a physician treating children with developmental disorders – and as a legal expert – has led me to question this assertion and to ask the following question: Why should sexuality not follow a comparable mode of development to that of other areas of development during children’s growth? Specifically, this would include the preconditions necessary for the implementation of the function itself (which are called prerequisites, for example the skills a baby must acquire before it can walk or speak).I have documented this hypothesis by examining several areas of child development with regard to adult sexuality: sensory and motor skills, various cognitive functions, as well as affects and emotions.From a developmental point of view, all these sectors can be considered areas that will contribute to love and sexual life when the time comes, and therefore as preambles to it, without being sexuality in itself. By dissipating all confusion between anatomical sex at birth and its function at maturity, that is to say sexuality, this point of view defines a period before puberty that is not yet sexualized, and thus clearly rules out any intrusion of adult sexuality into the world of childhood, in any form whatsoever.
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