Question 1:
Are children inherently sexual beings?

Are children inherently sexual beings? Of course they are, through the application of simple logic.
     Human beings are inherently sexual; all children are human beings; therefore, children can be said to be inherently sexual beings.
     Nu? So what?
     Gender differences are sexually based and hormonal in their very nature and, yes, those differences emerge in even the first months of life. In this sense, sure, even infants might be described as "sexual beings."
     Does this mean that the sexuality of infants, their needs and longings, closely resemble the urges of adolescents? Hardly. My six-year-old son relishes "cuddling" with both his mommy and his dad, but that does not make him bisexual -- it just makes him a normally affectionate boy. He even occasionally permits his big sisters to hug him, by the way.
     I suppose one could make a case that any sort of affectionate touching that provides some deeper satisfaction is sexual in nature, but that argument leads to ridiculous conclusions -- sexualizing even a great-grandmother's cheek-pinching of some toddler.
     President Clinton plunged himself into a world of trouble and shame by attempting to define the term "sexual relations" far too narrowly. In this discussion it will prove even more dangerous if we interpret sexuality too broadly.

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