Sexuality Development in Childhood

Li, Gu

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84273-4_12

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“…The existing evidence on child sexuality has been synthesised recently from a developmental systems perspective [2]. Whereas traditional developmental theory is focused on the individual child's "natural" sexual development, seen as a linear unfolding of their growing personal physical, psychological and sexual capacities, the systems approach is more about children within their social cultures.…”

Section: Children's "Normal" Sexuality and Sexual "Development"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is an approach that goes beyond the personal, enabling a resolution of the long-running "nature-nurture" debate, asserting that both factors play a role in life-span development. It sees development as involving interacting biological, psychological, and social processes [2].…”

Section: Children's "Normal" Sexuality and Sexual "Development"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is an absence that tellingly reflects a decades-long consensus among sexuality researchers: child sexuality is an under-researched area. It is a shortcoming all the more striking in relation to the literature on child sexual abuse (CSA) and its prevention, which is immense [2,3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perspective Chapter: Where angels fear to tread: anxieties over researching child sexuality must be overcome

O'Carroll¹

2023

Ethics - Scientific Research, Ethical Issues, Artificial Intelligence and Education [Working Title]

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Anxieties over encountering disapproval, rather than bona fide ethical concerns, have inhibited research so profoundly that child sexual development is still poorly understood even after over a century of theorising. This is despite growing awareness of the need for evidence-based and effective relationships and sex education (RSE) to promote healthy relationships, and also intense concern over child sexual abuse (CSA), not least because many clinical and forensic interventions have failed through being poorly informed and misconceived – notably as regards the sexuality of the children most at risk. This chapter will examine the professional codes that pertain to ethical research in respect of children's rights as research participants, along with the risk and potential benefits of such research. Sexual health, in contrast with developmental normativity, will be identified as a new research paradigm, and its ethical implications will be discussed.

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Section: Children's "Normal" Sexuality and Sexual "Development"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Children's "Normal" Sexuality and Sexual "Development"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perspective Chapter: Where angels fear to tread: anxieties over researching child sexuality must be overcome

O'Carroll¹

2023

Ethics - Scientific Research, Ethical Issues, Artificial Intelligence and Education [Working Title]

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“…However, most participants in this theme broadly stated hooking up did not play a role in their sexual identity development. Alternate forms of active exploration, such as exploring queer content online (Pingel et al, 2013), can take place before hooking up because sexual feelings and attraction typically develop before emerging adulthood (Li, 2022). Indeed, some sexual minority individuals identify as a sexual minority before engaging in same-sex behavior (Bishop et al, 2020).…”

Section: Sgm Emerging Adults' Sexual Identities and Hooking Upmentioning

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“This is Real, This is the Way that Things are”: Hooking up as a Pathway for Sexual Identity Development Among SGM Emerging Adults

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Hooking up may be one pathway for sexual and gender minority (SGM) emerging adults to explore their sexual identity development while they navigate heteronormative milestones. Framed by Dillon et al.’s (2011) model of universal sexual identity development, we examined 24 interviews with SGM emerging adults to understand whether and how hooking up aided in the development of their sexual identities beyond their sexual orientation. Although some participants already reported stable sexual identities prior to hooking up, we identified that hooking up did lead others to develop their sexual preferences more fully, better understand their sexual identity, and strengthen their connections to the SGM community. These findings suggest that hooking up can facilitate positive sexual development among sexual and gender minority emerging adults.

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“…On the other hand, there are mechanisms that interfere with each other: for example, in the case of personal development within the framework of society, its own mechanisms can favour or hinder said development. For example, in the development of sexuality (and sexual identity), there are two essential biological mechanisms in the pre-adult stage: adrenache and gonadarche [8,9]. The birth of "sexuality" is linked to the development or "awakening" of the adrenal gland that takes place around the age of 8 and is related to the increased production of adrenal androgens such as dehydroepiandrosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, and androstenedione, processes involved, also, in the growth of pubic hair.…”

Section: The Systemic Paradigmmentioning

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Developmental Systems Theory and Systemic Approach: A Weak Relationship

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2022

PhIJ

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Developmental Systems Theory (DST) has the merit of revitalizing the concept of system and applying it in a phenomenal field that can only be explained with precision by means of this paradigm. However, DST is a systems theory without systems, since it does not use the concept of system beyond the simple mention of the conceptual framework (that is, GST) to which it is ascribed and through the use of the principle of unity of system and environment. One of the most glaring contradictions of DST is that it does not use the powerful conceptual baggage of the systems approach that it claims, or, when it does, it makes the same mistakes as structuralism. On the contrary, conceptions are born within it that, pretending to introduce new things, what they actually do is draw attention to the obvious as if it were something new (for example, to the ostensible fact that "there are processes"). In this sense, around GST and DST new acronyms arise that do not contribute anything that is not already contained in the old but in force systemic approach.

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Sexuality Development in Childhood

Cited by 4 publications

References 135 publications

Perspective Chapter: Where angels fear to tread: anxieties over researching child sexuality must be overcome

Perspective Chapter: Where angels fear to tread: anxieties over researching child sexuality must be overcome

“This is Real, This is the Way that Things are”: Hooking up as a Pathway for Sexual Identity Development Among SGM Emerging Adults

Developmental Systems Theory and Systemic Approach: A Weak Relationship

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