Re: I thought about that, too.
It all depends on what is taboo in your culture and what isnt.
Thou sayest, as did Andrew. So say I. Damn.. this should be in
Gothic Gaudy.
In my view (of some decades more than the median age of this motley crewel) - that aspect transcends all the .. standard desperate or so often vicious responses to almost anything to do with sex and especially sex/children in the USA.
It ALL depends upon the mindset of the child!
Example from personal experience at ~ 9ish:
Movie theatre.
Guy maybe 25-35 in next seat (what does a 9 yo know about 'ages' of the ruling adult class?)
Guy makes overtures, all unspecific. To me:
this is a strange critter. Curious, though, natch (an uncurious kid is a kid already nagged into submission, ready for a life as a chartered accountant).
Wants me to go with him to the john.
Ah.. That kind of 'strange'?They have urinals there. He proceeds to use one. Hmmm.. his member is all red; clear what he's been doing a lot of.
OK, curiosity satisfied.But in this case, the manipulatee becomes the manipulator. I may not yet have grokked the phrase,
hit on, but I knew it when I saw it. So I said (so as to end any possibility of further attention) ~~ "Ummm, I noticed that usher looking at you. A lot." He was gone.
Trauma? Fear and loathing? Tendency to take-the-cloth and learn to molest all the young Christians, during their inculcation into becoming Penitent Young Sinners / despising all their natural impulses? Nahhh. Just life experience.
But then, I could not project that encounter into a 9 yo mindset -
already circumsized for no reason at all [thus desensitizing the glans for life - with all sorts of Interesting side-effects one can read about], catechismized at say, age 5 == already told,
Don't Touch That Dirty Thing! (androgynous, that chestnut - it's used on girls too, I've heard) and the rest of the Puritan programming process.
I was spared that, and am forever grateful.. for the luck of drawing such a parent! I can guess about the demons though, via first-hand stories from the victims of Ashcroftian pecksniffery, and their self-induced suffering.
But for the Murican tads not spared the dreariness of a death-obsessed religious overlay on all experience: most of those will forget to read the pithier parts of their Manual (like,
Judge not lest ye.. and Vengeance is Mine, saith She) .. and I suppose that many of these shall naturally want to Kill The Bastards. (It's such a Murican response to any crisis. Indians earlier, then Gooks ... currently dead Iraqi men, women, children and donkeys. NK, Iran, Syria next?)
Want neurotic adults? Simple: fuck with their minds about 'God'; make em Promise to Obey Her -- ages before they have the foggiest W.T.F. that supernatural stuff is all about; eons before they learn just how ill-informed were mummy n'daddy too. Teach 'em that, like AL Capp's
Schmoos, They. Are. Born. Guilty. of
A) Eating an apple [allegory Alert] == wanting to Know (the dimensions of their cage).
B) Killing
Kenny Gawd's Little Boy, JC.
C) Enjoying any of their bodily functions very-much.
Rest case. Too late to kill all the priests; they're now everywhere - even the White House War Room. Besides - the lawyers have all the reserved spots. After all, we are Materialists first; sanctimony always has to take second place to $ matters.. always.
Luck with -your- kid.
I sympathize with any parent, but especially with anyone doing it the 100% Murican way.
Bet you'll be fine :-\ufffd
