The concern of the psychologist contributors is not sexual abuse, but the normal sexual behavior in children under age 12. They provide information about the relationship between age and sexual development, mental and physical, in males and females. The eight articles are also published as the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality vol. 12, nos.

What is normal sexual behavior in a child Childhood sexuality is an often neglected field in sex research. There is very little literature about what one might call normal child sexual behavior. The existing literature on child sexuality gives the impression that the only way in which children figure in sexological research is as objects of sexual abuse. The child, as a subject learning about sexuality and capable of experiencing sexual pleasures, doesn't seem to exist in scholarly papers. Childhood Sexuality: Normal Behavior and Development does not focus on sexual abuse but instead deals...