[headsonpikes]

Tex, even a "well-educated and highly intelligent 10 year old" cannot possibly be able to understand the existential dynamic of sexuality. Many posters here qualified at one point in their lives by your criteria. As one of them, I can assure you that no matter what I had read about sex, I certainly had no UNDERSTANDING of it, and didn't really grasp the significance of it all until I had more or less matured.(late teens+).

Don't confuse knowledge of facts with understanding of meaning. Ten year olds may be precocious intellectually, but that does not give them a leg up, or over, so to speak, on their less-gifted brethren.(grin. I couldn't help myself)

Playing with yourself in the bathtub is not sex.

[Texaggie79]

Playing with yourself in the bathtub is not sex.

True, and therein lies the problem. Today's society equates sex to be as harmless as playing with yourself in the bathtub. And without a God, they would be right. Heck, some species of monkeys fondle each other's genitals as a greeting. It would be no different if we did it, if God was not in the equation.