The blame for this is not known to most people, but it is very deductive.
If you get a puppy, and never socialize it with other dogs, it will still want to mate, but it will see other dogs as “the enemy”. Why would people think that human children are any different?
In our society, boys and girls are effectively segregated from each other, both “self segregated”, and segregated by adults who consume their time with tasks for them to perform instead of socializing.
Most people assume that children are socialized “in school or church”, but this is not the case. They are too busy and in school are shuffled from class to class and school to school, with different students in each.
What they do not have is a polite, chaperoned social situation, for years, where they are kept from self segregating by gender, yet are not so directed by doing something that they cannot get to know each other, and the opposite gender.
In such a setting they would have to compete and cooperate, act in two and more person teams with the same people for a long time; doing things, thinking about things, and sharing emotions.
Children raised in such a situation no longer see the other gender as utterly alien, that they are people too, not great but also not bad, but mostly normal.
For children raised like this, dehumanized sexuality has far less attraction than the prospect of having a lasting and pleasant, intimate relationship with someone they are compatible with.
That is so true. When I read it, it brought back childhood memories of "our gang". We consisted of both boys and girls. However, back then, we weren't allowed to stay in, we had to go out and play.....just be back by dinner time, unless you called ahead and asked permission to eat over a friends house.
We were all out, all day, together. Riding our bikes, roller skating, skateboarding, walking, eating at someones house, etc.
I rarely see kids out playing anymore.