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'''Child sexuality''' is a little-researched topic. This is due to most research being carried out in Western [[anglophile]] countries, where the subject of children engaging in sexual activity is taboo, and any such activity is automatically considered to be "[[inappropriate child sexual activity|inappropriate]]". | '''Child sexuality''' is a little-researched topic. This is due to most research being carried out in Western [[anglophile]] 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 child sexual activity|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 {{w|stigmatized}}. | 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 {{w|stigmatized}}. | ||
Revision as of 07:13, 12 March 2015
Child sexuality is a little-researched topic. This is due to most research being carried out in Western anglophile 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.
Third-wave feminists, radical feminists, and right-wing Republicans 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 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 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.
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
External links
https://www.newgon.com/wiki/Research:_Secondary_Harm
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