Since the preadolescent or adolescent who initiates a sexual en counter with a child is usually known by the child and by the child's parents, he dare not be too aggressive or feel the need to be devious because he will otherwise be exposed, embarrassed, and perhaps pun ished. The first case to follow is a case of such deviousness. I (a twelve year old male) was curious about the little girls' genital system and I proceeded to suggest a game where I could explore this area.
We turned off the lights and I played the role
of monster. The other children were to run
around the room and keep away from me. When I
caught them I would supposedly eat them.
The
game went fine and I achieved what I had set out
to do-to find out what the little girl's penis
felt like when I squeezed it.
As the children
ran from me I would catch a boy and throw him
down and pretend I was eating him and give him a
little hit in the rump or on the leg, but when I
caught Tina, the little girl, I immediately
grabbed her vaginal area with my whole hand and
rubbed and squeezed it a couple three times.
While I did this I distracted her attention from
my grip by mumbling a few monster groans and
yelling "I'm going to eat you." Later, I set up
a horror house in the garage and tried again.
As
I did before, I conned a few of the neighbor
girls into coming into my horror house in the
garage and proceeded to molest two other girls.
In the second case, a five year old girl is involved with an older
sexually aggressive boy. She does not express the same repressive mo
rality but nevertheless reacts negatively to aggression; whereas she
does not react negatively to non-aggressive sex play with her kinder-
garten-aged boy friend, Bill.
A disturbing event came to the front at the age of
kindergarten. The instigator was a boy from the
neighborhood, four years my senior, whom we will
call Tom.
At our age, my friends and I were unaware
of his sexual problem-extensive sexual aggressiveness.
One afternoon in the neighborhood playhouse
he "depantsed" me and pulled down his own pants. No
negativism existed in my reaction for I had seen a
penis many times before.
Evidently he had never been exposed to a girl's sexual parts for he forced
me to keep my pants down. The second encounter did
bother me.
The boy across the street, we will call
him Bill, and I were close friends and the two of
us went over to Tom's house to play, and Tom locked
us in the bedroom.
We could only go if we exposed
ourselves physically to each other. I had seen Bill
many times without clothes on, for in the summer we
swam without suits in my outside pool until we were
about three years old.
We undressed and Tom immediately
fondled Bill's penis and then tried to touch
my labia, and I either cried or screamed and he
stopped.
A fear existed because sex had never been
forced upon me. I think where I became confused was
that at home nakedness was common, accepted and
associated with good thoughts.
This situation was
conflicting because of the force involved, and I
immediately and have always disliked Tom. However,
Bill and I had a typical kindergarten romance. As
others, we were in love and wanted to get married
some day.