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?

  • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    14 hours 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·
      13 hours ago

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