In short, she told my cousins when they were younger (she never did it to me) that if they touched their penises too much, they would fall off and then they would become girls. My cousins were scared sh-itless. I thought it was sick. What do you think?
2006-12-24 07:39:31 · 9 answers · asked by fslcaptain737 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Young as in little boys. They believed her.
2006-12-24 08:00:50 · update #1
And no, she didn't mean any harm in it- but I still thought it was wrong.
2006-12-24 08:01:12 · update #2
She was just playing with them, but i would never tell my grandson that.
2006-12-24 07:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by ~Twisted Sister~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read some of the fairy tales, the true fairy tales not these re-written ones?
Little red riding hood where she was tore to pieces by the wolf? Others that I was quite shocked at there brutality being told to kids.
If your grandmother has been told these "real" fairy tales as a child, or have been told snakes are evil etc. this is how this generation got the point across for kids not to do something.
It worked didn't it?? Your cousins never played with themselves or showed off there penis's out in public did they? My oldest boy when little thought quite a lot of that part of his body, showing it off to everyone. If I told him such a story maybe I would not have lived through very embarrassing moments when he was a very little boy.
I do not think it was right for your gramma to do necessarily, but I do not think it hurt anything either....
2006-12-24 16:04:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, see, and this is why Americans have such f*cked-up attitudes towards sex. She was probably just trying to do right by her grandkids, as attitudes from her time were vehemently anti-masturbation, but that's really the sort of thing that leads to stuff like Nipplegate and the surgeon general getting fired for even mentioning masturbation. There are better ways of discouraging inappropriate public touching (not, for heaven's sake, masturbation, which is completely harmless) without risking ruining your kids' later sexual health.
2006-12-24 15:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by random6x7 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have heard people say that b4! I think it is mainly said so she could try to keep their innocence a little longer. Since I don't know your grandma, I don't really know if she was kidding, being serious, or just didn't think before she was speaking, but regardless, I'm sure she didn't mean any harm in it.
2006-12-24 15:47:07 · answer #4 · answered by jlee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is definitely not OK to tell children this. That is complete rubbish.
2006-12-24 17:10:41 · answer #5 · answered by Corrida 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think she was just saying that to get them to stop playing with their p. maybe it was wrong but did they stop.
2006-12-24 16:06:39 · answer #6 · answered by misty blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are better way to encourage them not to masterbate than that!
2006-12-24 15:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by retrodragonfly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol.....she probably caught them playing with them, & told them that !!! she was just playing!!!
2006-12-24 15:44:16 · answer #8 · answered by onecent1232003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is okay.
2006-12-24 15:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋