"Children do not understand sex"

[pedo233]

How true is this? I'm 20, I began having sexual thoughts when I was 7. I remember looking at adult women and being sexually aroused. But i didnt masturbate until I was 10 or 11 years old. I didnt really have sexual fantasies until I was 11. Maybe i just had an early puberty.

I read in hunter gatherer societies, children often have sex with other children or adults. Also why is it not traumatic if a child has sex with a child, but its traumatic if a child has sex with an adult?

[pedoBL]

Children who are willing to have sex with an adult shouldnt experience trauma, same goes with a child having sex with another child. The "trauma" comes from police and courts intervention - they do the most harm to the child imo

[RocketRack]

I read in hunter gatherer societies, children often have sex with other children or adults.

Thats interesting... not something I have read before but I can imagine it being the case. Are we talking modern day hunter gatherer societies or like cave man times?

[NeverLoseKibou]

How true is this? I'm 20, I began having sexual thoughts when I was 7. I remember looking at adult women and being sexually aroused. But i didnt masturbate until I was 10 or 11 years old. I didnt really have sexual fantasies until I was 11. Maybe i just had an early puberty.

I read in hunter gatherer societies, children often have sex with other children or adults. Also why is it not traumatic if a child has sex with a child, but its traumatic if a child has sex with an adult?

That's quite common, it pretty much lines up with my own experience growing up. Seriously, people should remember their own school days, I was always trying to get some with very little success when I was at school, there were some guys and girls who were much more successful in that department and girls would chase older guys, they had more to offer and more maturity. It's just how it was and still is I'm sure, even if people like to pretend kids are just into dolls and toy cars until they're 18.

[Bookshelf]

What it means to "understand" sex is intentionally vague because it's an attempt at a catch-all argument dismissing broader pro-c perspectives. Different people and groups apply their own meanings to what sex actually is and quite often can't really explain it themselves.

[weird.organisms]

I read in hunter gatherer societies, children often have sex with other children or adults.

Thats interesting... not something I have read before but I can imagine it being the case. Are we talking modern day hunter gatherer societies or like cave man times?

Some modern day H/G societies still practice it but there were many that practiced sex.
Trobriand tribes are still known for letting kids engage in sexual play with other children so they can learn for adulthood.
Papau new guinea also.

In Greece, they practiced pederasty as a rite of passage into adulthood.

In some native American tribes the girls were considered adults as soon as they had their menstruation.

In many H/G cultures, sex and marriage with what we would see as kids or teenagers was widely accepted, with little to no documented harm.

In certain jurisdictions in the US during the 1800s, age of consent was as low as 7 to 12 years of age.

Of course telling to any anti will have them foaming at the mouth a scramble to deny it.

[OnionPetal]

"Children do not understand sex"
How true is this?

It depends on the individual, their experience, their culture, and how sheltered they've been from the topic.

But I have to turn it around and ask, why is this assertion being made? In relation to what? In what specific legitimate context would a child need to understand sex? Is it a real context, or just fear-mongering designed to scare people away from the topic?

If there are legitimate contexts where normies are actually concerned about children's ignorance about sex, then that is very easily solved by age-appropriate sex education.