rhythmic body movements and sensual body exploration by infants of both sexes sometimes result in orgasm.
How do they know? Are they using info from Kinsey's infamous Table 34?
Several qualitative studies have suggested that infants whose sexual behavior (genital and non-genital) was accepted as a natural part of development...
You've got to be kidding me! Sexual behavior of infants?!
Children do not reliably know their gender identity until age 2or 3. And even after that, many believe they might change sexes until age 4 or 5.
So children are hermaphrodites until age 5? Hey, who here changed their sex before kindergarten?
activities such as exploring a friend’s body may be more common than before. These healthy responses to sexual curiosity and affection for best friends do not tell us anything about what the adult sexual orientation of the young woman will be.
Now they're encouraging homosexual exploration to preadolescents.
The rest of the article is just rationalizations for pushing their specific sex ed agenda including teaching children about sexual desire. They end with a call for adolescent reproductive rights. And as the article notes, adolescence occurs as young as 8. Reproductive rights and education about sexual desire for 8 year olds? Isn't that the motto of a pedophile group?
1) Really? A year or so ago, on a thread about a 9 or 10 year old who'd been charged with sexual assault, a FReeper mother expressed amazement about his precocious physical capability, and inquired how much longer she might have before her then 6-7 year old son would have said capability. Parents are often clueless, especially if they've led sheltered lives such as opponents of this Girls Inc. site are suggesting are ideal. And such cluelessness can lead them to answer questions from their children in ways that make a perfectly normal child think there's something abnormal and/or bad about him/herself.
2) Probably from observation of young children hospitalized for conditions requiring close monitoring including during sleep and/or with EEGs.
3) Earth to Tuesday Afternoon: What do you think infant and toddler boys are doing when they rub their crotches? And some parents ignore it as normal, while others intervene urgently and verbally express disapproval in the same sort of tone they would use if the infant hit or bit a sibling.
4) Nobody said they were hermaphrodites. The article says they don't clearly KNOW which they are until age 2-3, and for a couple of years after that are often unsure that it's a permanent feature. They're just beginning to grapple with concepts like the fact that their parents were once children and they themselves will one day be adults. Many very basic things are unclear to preschoolers. A college professor of mine told a story about a friend's preschool aged son who was taken to a beach for the first time, and was greatly impressed by the motion of the waves. As they were driving home, he asked his parents "Did they turn the ocean off now that I'm gone?"
5) No, they're encouraging comfortable acceptance of the fact that girls' bodies and minds DO begin to change at around age 8, and that common manifestations of that are an interest in other girls bodies (mainly for reassurance that the perplexing changes in their own bodies are normal), and intensified emotional attachments to friends, who at that age are usually mostly same sex friends.