Childhood Development and Sexual Behaviour

Childhood Development and Sexual Behavior

PSY 265

University of Phoenix

Childhood Development and Sexual Behavior

It has been said that we engage in sexual behaviors as young as 0-2 years old. Fetuses can actually express sexual behaviors. During an ultrasound it has been seen by many that male fetuses can have erections. May boys are born with erections and they can also have them during their first few weeks (Rathus, Nevid, & Fichner-Rathus,2011). It is far more difficult to detect any sexual arousal in the female infant; however evidence of genital swelling and lubrication has been reported (Rathus, Nevid, & Fichner-Rathus,2011). Infants can show pelvic thrusting as soon as 8-10 months and they begin to masturbate between 6-12...