children as sexual objects?

Question

Frued states that we are sexual creatures throughout all of our lives. therefore does this make thinking about children in a sexual manner wrong? if so why?

Answer 1

Thinking about children in a sexual manner isn't wrong, per se- heck, tons of men fantasize about teenagers, when sexuality starts to really blossom in puberty. And yes, some people fantasize about younger children.

The only thing that is wrong is sexually engaging a child, because they are not yet old enough to make informed decisions regarding sexual issues.

But fantasize all you want.

Answer 2

You have grossly MISunderstood Freud's meaning. I am fully aware of Freud's five stages of psychosexual development (which begin at birth), but I do not see how they can be misconstrued as a green light to molest children.

Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development are, like other stage theories, completed in a predetermined sequence and can result in either successful completion and a healthy personality; or can result in failure, leading to an unhealthy personality. Freud believed that we develop through stages based upon a particular erogenous zone. During each stage, an unsuccessful completion means that a child becomes fixated on that particular erogenous zone and either over- or under-indulges once he or she becomes an adult.

According to Freud, molestation would cause great psychological damage and enormous problems for a child when he/she reached adulthood as it would be a complete corruption of normal, successful psychosexual development.

Freud aside, sexual relations with children are wrong because they are always damaging to the child, both mentally and physically. A child who has not gone through puberty cannot physically cope with sexual intercourse. The injuries sustained by a child who has been penetrated are horrific. To penetrate a young child a man has to literally break the child's pelvis. It often leaves the child infertile for the rest of it's life. Not to mention severely emotionally scarred.

Children do not have the understanding or the maturity or the life experience of an adult. Children cannot cope with the powerful emotions surrounding sex. A sexual relationship between an adult and a child would always be a highly exploitative one. To most adults the idea of sexual relations with a child is stomach-turning: we are genetically programed to feel this way. Essentially a sexual realtionship between an adult and a child is against nature. If you feel otherwise you are very sick and need help. Children ARE sexual innocents: attempting to open them up to a world they cannot understand and are not ready for to satisfy your own twisted perversions is cruel beyond belief.

Answer 3

Freud viewed sexuality in children as part of their development. He certainly did not mean they were capable of committing an overt sexual act, nor capable of processing such an emotional or physical stimulus.

He merely talked about sexual development just as we talk about emotional, physical, or cognitive development in children.

A toddler may touch himself for comfort or pleasure, but he is certainly not going to have an orgasm or is thinking about a sexual act. He is simply touching a sensitive spot that feels nice. It has NO SEXUAL implication other than that WILL be the spot where his sexual development will come to fruition.

If an adult is thinking about and/or acting upon a sexual desire for children, there is no gray area. It is wrong and it is against the law. This is because it violates a child's trust in an adult and accelerates their sexual development past their ability to physically handle sexual acts, nor emotionally render or comprehend sexual acts.

Answer 4

I suppose they are sexual objects, in terms of being objects, which we describe as humans, which come in male or female varieties (with different physical equipment). But the expression (i.e. children as sex objects) seems to advocate the use of children for sex (-logically by adults, who are sexually active-), which is WRONG.

The biological function of sex is reproduction, and children are incapable of that due to underdeveloped physical equipment. Not to mention that they do not have the intellectual capacity to relate to an adult who is fully capable of sexual activity. Sexual activity with children is wrong because they haven't yet matured; they are innocent, just learning about all other aspects of life in this world. Do you understand?

If you were abused as a child, please talk to someone, do not continue the cycle.

Answer 5

Only extremely SICK people would even consider thinking of children and sex in the same series of thoughts! People that do should be permanently removed from society. Frued was a very sick individual, aside from being a pedophile and drug addict he also enjoyed animals. Then his sick thoughts began to spread, what's really amazing is that so many idiots since have "treasured" and embraced such forms of evil.

Answer 6

I don't know that I buy what Freud said about children being sexual creatures... pleasure seeking creatures with wants to satisfy, certainly.

But even if he is right, it is still wrong to view children as sexual objects. Even if children do go through the psycho-sexual stages of oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital, these stages (except for the last one) are fragmented and children have no coherent understanding of sexuality. Plus, the latent stage is where children are essentially asexual (boys and girls have cooties phase, if you'll let me be very technical and serious).
We only start to become aware of our sexuality in the genital stage. Even if children are sexual beings, they have no understanding of it. That's why it's wrong to think of them as sexual beings on an adult level.

Answer 7

Motrine say:

Your absolutely right, children do have sexual interests....they masturbate, however, they are not experienced in the world to have understand how society feels about sex. They just know how their body is and reacts. However, about the age of 5, they identify with their gender roles. U seem familar with the developement stages, which include the oral, anal, phallic, latancy, and the genital stage. Also make note that most of Freud's theories are proven wrong, as to modern psychology can relate this to conditioning, and to molding that our children see from society. Although we as humans, no matter how young we are, have innate sexual feelings, biology is not with emotions, so the idea of humans wanting power and in so find children as a way to cope with the uncontrolling world makes sense. However, if u were in the midevial era, then children (females) 13-18 were seen as able to marry and have sex. However, whatever or not something is immoral depends on ur society, not pyschology and biology, for that is simple: WE ARE ANIMALS FIRST, AND PEOPLE SECOND. However, according to our society, if ur an adult, it is wrong.
However, someone stated that that children are innocent: that is not true: children can kill and rape one another just like adults...therefore, they are not innocent.

Answer 8

Yes, Freud did say we are sexual creatures throughout our lives (of course Freud was also a cocaine addict). So do believe everything Freud said? Quite frankly, I think Freud was an idiot desperately in need of a qualified therapist. That said, even if we are sexual creatures throughout our lives, we still need time for our sexuality to MATURE. So an adult who becomes sexually involved with a child has forced the child into a situation which the child is neither physically nor emotionally equipped to understand. UNDERSTAND??

Answer 9

Yes thinking about children in a sexual manner is always wrong.

Answer 10

No. What makes it wrong are the societal standards of accepted behavior. Seeing children as sexual objects is outside those standards in almost evey society. THAT is what makes it wrong and it is from those standards that the laws prohibiting that behavior are derived.