“Children are stereotyped as asexual and innocent” and this is a problem, according to a new academic paper. The authors argue scholars should center “childhood sexual pleasure,” not shield childhood from sexuality.
Their words: “attending to pleasure is indispensable for understanding how childhood sexualities are lived, policed, and transformed. Childhood sexual pleasure is a terrain where domination is felt, contested, resisted, and sometimes overturned.”
Translation: adults shouldn’t “dominate” or police children’s sexuality but should normalize exploration of sexual pleasure. They add that focusing on pre-adolescent pleasure can expose “structures of power” and open “new possibilities for sexual meanings.”
So…protecting kids from confusing sexual experiences? Teaching them to beware of predators? Nah, you don’t really need to do that, argue these sociologists. Instead, refer to “queer theory” to expand “the conversation by interrogating how heteronormative and cisnormative assumptions constrain expressions of pleasure.”
Just when you thought you’d heard everything that demonic academics could throw at you, there is this. And worse is that a scholarly journal published it.
But none of this drops out of the sky. Much of modern sex-research orthodoxy traces to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. He taught that “sexuality is not an appetite to be curbed” and believed that humans were “pan-sexuals,” looking for sexual encounters with anything and everything. He practiced what he preached. I’m going to describe him to you but if you’re eating something, come back to this.
Dr. Kinsey was a true masochist. He was known to insert objects like toothbrushes and straws into his penis. He circumcised himself with a pocketknife. He tied himself to the ceiling by his scrotum. He landed himself in the hospital for “traumatizing his genitals.”
And yet he is regarded as the father of sexology and, since no one ever stopped this pervert, here we are: children’s “pleasure” is framed as a research imperative, while traditional safeguards are treated as repression.
