Did your parents have sex around you as a child?

And if so, what (if any) effect has it had on you?

Is it weird/confusing/traumatic for children, or does it provide a healthier and more realistic model of sexuality than pornography and school-based sex education?

  • 211@sopuli.xyz
    161·
    1 day ago

    Link to those studies, please.

    There’s a huge difference to just seeing a naked body doing its thing, like sauna, or swim, or relax in the sun, or sleeping, or ill; and the same body as an erotic object

    • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9681119/

      At age 17-18, participants were assessed for levels of self-acceptance; relations with peers, parents, and other adults; antisocial and criminal behavior; substance use; suicidal ideation; quality of sexual relationships; and problems associated with sexual relations. No harmful “main effect” correlates of the predictor variables were found.

      boys exposed to primal scenes before age 6 had reduced risk of STD transmission or having impregnated someone in adolescence. In contrast, girls exposed to primal scenes before age 6 had increased risk of STD transmission or having become pregnant.

      It is suggested that pervasive beliefs in the harmfulness of the predictor variables are exaggerated.

      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        Notice the studies almost always cap at 6. I say “almost” out of caution, I have always seen it as 5 or 6.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      I’d also like to investigate how this jives with the well documented sexual attraction dynamics of siblings. Those who grow up together are almost never attracted to each other no matter how much they see each other naked. Those that are raised separately and meet for the first time as adults are often very attracted to each other due to genetic reasons that apparently we have a mechanism for overcoming when raised together. I would expect to find there was a similar mechanism regarding our parents.

    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      I’m not getting bogged down in an argument picking apart my source because someone made up their mind already. Plenty to choose from it’s a well-trodden subject. Find a journal or outlet you respect.