[joesjane]

I'm not sure the early sexualization has to involve molestation though. You are right on animal mutilation being a scary tell tale sign of future violent psychotic behavior usually against women. It is very lucky they caught him, most likely he would have changed his focus to women. Escalation is typical, one just has to look at Ted Bundy as an example. He started out as a peeping tom, when he became desensitized he changed to rape then lust murder.

[ponygirl]

Somewhere online in the past year, I read a paper by a reverend who was talking about how damaging early sex education can be for children. He said that normal sexual maturation means that a child's sexual urges go dormant around the age of 4 or 5, then reemerge around 11-13. When the hormones are dormant, the child's brain focuses on learning. Therefore, keeping these urges front and center through early sex education (and I'm not talking about molestation, though it certainly would apply) causes the child to focus on these self-centered urges and less energy is devoted to learning and even socialization. It actually "dumbs down" children to keep them focused on learning about sex, and he said there was evidence pointing to creation of a sociopathic and narcissistic mindset.

I cannot find the article! I'm searching and searching, but I can't. If anyone has seen it or it sounds familiar, please let me know. It was definitely a church/Christian-based paper.