Monday, 09 November 2009
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From Kid Sexuality to Adult Sensitivity?
Recently, I took a read at someone's blog named "Reason #237 to not have children". The focus was upon finding out a kid as young as 10 has a "face down, ass up" picture of a girl on his PS2. When I read this, I actually was a bit shocked but also had a point that maybe that stuff was normal, if you just happened to be a boy who was introduced to something sexual at a pretty young age. It brought me back to a sudden conclusion I drew to within my life: if a kid is drawn to something raunchy and sexual when they are young, there is a slight chance they will grow up to be gentlemen when they are older. After all, the story goes that the way they are when they were younger WILL change once they get older.
I'm pretty sure you guys knew my sexual story when I posted it earlier, but just in case you needed a little bit of a memory jogged, here you go. And most of this will be of the most honest truth.
I remember when I was young, I would see these women, some of them as young as 15, wearing midriffs. I didn't know what was sexy about a woman showing their bellies, but I just knew it was normal. I also would see some women in R&B videos wearing booty shorts. More or less the ones where the legs of the jeans were cut off. Added to that, I read some music magazines where a woman wore a chain around her belly like a gypsy dancer, and it was called a belly ring. Added to that, I saw plenty of women with their belly pierced. That added right to the picture of the most sexual "hero", named Terry. I was envisioning movies at the time wen I was around 7ish? I don't know how old, but I drew that. She became like my version of Barbarella (funny enough, I didn't hear about Barbarella until I reached college). Luckily when I was young, I never really knew how to draw when a woman's breasts showing cleavage. Either way, my sudden sexuality search out of nowhere was nothing new.
I remember when I was young and seeing my first oral sex scene in a porno in my brother's room when I was younger. I didn't understand it but I imagined it for nothing. I saw plenty of things pointing to raunchiness in a mininum but what kept me from going so far is knowing I didn't understand it, but I guess I kind of understood things when I first started to explore my sexual organs. I didn't know why I was doing it. I just assumed it was normal. And it was to the point where when I was as young as 7 or 8, I had assumed everyone including women had penises.
Yes, there is a good point to this, and we'll cross that hump when we get to it. Just bare with me.
Needless to say, as the sudden curiousity about sexual situations came, so did the old stereotypes about what men liked, and there was a big streamline of things in order from
1. Bellies (I once again can't explain it)
2. Big butts (Every other rap video I saw, it was in my face, as soon enough I wound up sneaking peeks at butts from so apparent reason. Thank goodness I actually had he power to keep composure)
3. Big breasts (this one was a problem I could never ever figure out honestly. I saw plenty of guys liked big boobs, and yet again, I thought it was just plain normal to like women like that. There was a time I saw a girl named Monique and thought she was sexually attractive, and I was only probably 11. Thank goodness she shut me away before I was planning to do nothing but sit next to her. Hehe! But after seeing cleavages and bikinis, it came at just a random woman thing)
4. Thick women in general (To be honest, this one carried from then to now, because I just liked that most thick women cared so little, as a means to have their own set of confidence, and confidence to me was definitely key. But mostly it started with a cute Latina girl who happened to have been young, but was also the rudest girl you have ever met in your entire life.)Funny enough, there was this curve when I was little, too. Whenever I found someone attractive, and I actually got to know them, I would fall for them and want to be their boyfriend. Let me explain.
This particular woman did not fit any of the stuff much. Not quite at all in fact, but she looked like an absolute angel. I feel in love with her as soon as I looked at her. And she was a plain Jane, who was also your typical average girl, too. I talked to her more than I talked to any of the women in that list of attractions on the top. This is the main clue to the point: I thought women who were sexually attractive were cool, and even eye-catching then, but as I grew older, I was a lot more interested in women who were simple and would make you want to fall for how good they were.
Here my friends is where I skip right up to college year. By then, I came across plenty of people who were either promiscuous or sexually attractive, but I had made up my mind: I really wanted someone who was easy for me to love. Someone that to the core made me want to stay with them for eternity. Physical attractions will indeed be built in, but when the dust cleared, I knew that the girl the bad guys wanted were also the girls that may be prone to breaking a good guys' heart, so I was determined to keep out of that jar, and find someone to be a good gentlemen to.
Case in point, here is where we cross the bridge: I found that psychologically, a kid will find it normal to explore young sexuality. But when they grow up, assuming they'll be their real selves, they'll be something completely different. More or less, they will grow up to be young ladies and gentlemen. To put it more generally, The way you are now as a real person is the opposite of what you may have been as a kid. If you were a good Christian kid as a child, when you grow up and learn more, you are going to be the everyday preacher's daughter. If you were a grade A student when you were younger, when you get older, you are not going to care about straight A's once the stress hits you. When you are a do-gooder if you were young, grow up, you won't seem anywhere near that. And you can blame that on the world influence. Becuase there is a big difference between being young and being older: when you were younger, it was considered normal. When you are an adult, you learn just enough to turn yourself a new leaf.
So, don't be shocked when they are young and oggling booties. Odds are once they completely learn about their people, they'll soon be taking a regular woman out for a real date and having a family. Bet on that.
What are your thoughts on sexuality and sensitivity from a kid's and adult's point of view?
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Comments (17)
agreed
I agree, mostly because if kids are introduced to things young, then they get better at making smart decisions later on because they've had more time to do so. When a kid is sheltered for too long, he or she becomes occupied later on with catching up on what they missed out on for years.
-shrugs- To me, if you're exposed to something appropriately and gradually, you're more likely to be able to make better decisions about it. I mean, we've all heard of those pastor kids who have gone to college and just gone wild because they weren't ever exposed to that. I was always an intensely curious child, and would surreptitiously gather information about sex, drugs, and alcohol, along with just asking my parents about them. So now that I'm old enough to really decide about that stuff, I just don't do it. I didn't rush out and try it as soon as it was available because I already knew about it. Of course, so I'm just 16, so that doesn't really count for sex or whatever, but still.
God, didn't I just write a little essay. -shakes head-
heredity vs. environment...
Every child is different. What also might have an effect on this is the family surrounding them and how they react to the child's sexuality. How sexual are their family members? How are the women and men treated in the household? Is it matriarchal or patriarchal? How are disagreements handled?
Is there anyone actively teaching the child manners and etiquette?
Those seem like more important questions to me than the child's age.
Maybe you should have proofread this before you decided to post half of the nonsense that doesn't need to be in there in order to prove your point. Sorry, just my opinion. You could have made your point without sharing your life story.
And you could have proofread.
Did I mention that you should have read it over first?
Hmm..11 huh? Mind telling me where she lives so I can give her some free candy from my big, white van?
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- Kunoichi
lol i remember i used to say the word "sex" really loudly, thrown in random sentences, without having a clue what it meant when i was around 7 years old. my parents just told me to stop saying it, without ever explaining what it was .... at about 12 years old, i thought back to that time, "oh."
lol. i never had my parents explain anything, but i think that i learned enough gradually through peers naturally to make wise decisions as an adult.
Good article. But there is a huge difference between children getting desensitized to porn and people going through hormonal, adolescent changes. I get what you are saying here, but I disagree because there is a lot that can happen in the meantime of changing your tune from child to adult, that and also there are many people who do not end up doing the whole rebellion thing as backflip when they are older.
I'm afraid it doesn't change my opinion that a 10 year old having porn on their psp is a bad thing. Although IMO, it probably has more to do with bad parenting than a bad kid!
@LoveYouToDeath16@xanga - The life story was made to try ad proof the point: when I was young I was exposed to sex and love. But in some strange twist of fate, as an adult, I'm not promiscuous or sexist. What you are when you are young can change 180 degrees when you grow older. There's your long story short.
Oh, and did I mention Datingish recommended this for the frontpage? I DID proofread this back at my website.
So, if you have to tell me what you did, I suggest holding the redundancy. Much obliged.
@BelisaAmbrose@xanga - I suppose so. I was raised to respect women in my house.
I don't think kids/people ALWAYS change as dramatically as you suggest, but I do somewhat agree with you. If the kid is in a good environment, they'll eventually learn what's right and wrong. But not always.
I cannot say that I myself am completely the opposite as I was, however, I am completely different.
@LoveYouToDeath16@xanga - Don't use your argument about proofreading to emphasize the fact that you don't agree. Just say you don't agree.
The way I am now is nothing to with genes or anything. A lot of the good things I've learned is just from experience and mostly from the Bible. I grew up with my three older cousins whose parents were alcoholics, abusers, etc. The youngest was the worst of them all; she was the stereotypical bad girl, and I actually followed her around like her little puppy. But I never turned out as bad as her, and I actually don't know exactly why. It was like a counterintuitive thing. It was like, I'd already seen and heard everything that she'd been through and lived enough vicariously through her. Besides, my parents aren't/weren't alcoholic or abusive. So I guess in my case, it had to do with intuition vs. environment.
It is normal to explore sexuality early on; yet growing up to a high level of maturity isn't normal at all. I'm not drawing any definite conclusions here, but the correlations are pretty strong.
@ingiardino@xanga - Well I don't care much about the fact that I don't agree. I don't even have a strong, solid opinion on the argument. I am just really bothered that there are sooo many typos. If I am gonna take the time to read that friggin book, I expect it to read over at least ONCE by the author. In fact, let's not even say I disagree because really, like I said, I don't have much of an opinion on it. The ONLY thing that bothers me, is what I just mentioned - the countless spelling errors.
@mynameisblueskye@xanga - Who cares if they recommended it? You should have read it over. And whatever who cares about my opinion on the post... I'm just shocked at how many mistakes there are.
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