# My nine year old brother has some odd notions about homosexuality… **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697 "2012-09-14T15:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/21 "2012-09-14T18:28:31Z")
Kids at that age pick up some weird shit from their classmates. Just correct his misconception. It’s not likely a belief he came up with on his own, he’s just parroting something his best friend said. And maybe a light tap upside the head, for emphasis. =) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/22 "2012-09-14T18:54:34Z")
I would conjecture that it is just an epithet he has heard and has no more idea what it means than, say, fuck. He may associate it with Sandusky, but when I was nine, I had no idea of sex of any kind. But I certainly knew the word “fuck”. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/23 "2012-09-14T18:56:59Z")
Hell, I had sex ed in school at 10, and still didn’t know diddly after that. I understand giving it early, but why not continue it up to and through the point where you can actually USE it? By the time I needed it, I didn’t remember shit. Not that it mattered, it wasn’t as if they were teaching anything USEFUL. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/24 "2012-09-14T19:04:27Z")
> [@grude](#): > > They rape in the butt now? When did this start! Well, it’d be off-message for them to use straight sex for their rape-of-choice, now wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/25 "2012-09-14T19:49:29Z")
He’s just parroting something somebody said. When my son was about that age we asked him if he knew what “gay” meant. He said it’s “boys humping boys.” Good enough for the time being I guess, except I wanted to know what he though “humping” meant. That he wasn’t so sure about. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/26 "2012-09-14T19:50:19Z")
Jeez, that’s horrible – it’s like 35, 40% _at best_. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/27 "2012-09-14T20:41:14Z")
I’m with **Sattua** , but at the same time 9 year olds think anything about sex is icky, doubly so if it’s to do with a relationship they can’t have the slightest beginning of an inkling of empathy for (assuming they’re straight). My daughter’s 9, and she knows all about my straight-but-not-narrow beliefs; we had a “Vote No on Amendment One” yard sign, and I told them what that was all about, how gay people have equal rights, etc. A while ago we had this conversation: Her: “I do think that two men or two women should be able to get married and everything, but I still think it’s kind of disgusting.” Me: “Well, as long as you recognize their rights, it’s OK not to like someone’s behavior or beliefs. But to be fair, you probably think straight sex is disgusting too.” Her: **Emphatic, wide-eyed nod** ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/28 "2012-09-14T20:47:11Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > He’s nine. All his life he’s been told to beware of strangers who want to abduct him. These strangers aren’t women. So when young boys try to puzzle out amongst themselves what a guy who abducts them would do to them, of course they work out or are told that they would be raped and then possibly killed. Since they are also told that males who want sex with males are homosexual, if stands to reason from his viewpoint that there are a lot of homosexuals who rape boys. So his opinion isn’t exactly odd from his standpoint. I agree with this. Plus, most of what’s going through the kids head is pure abstract nonsense, and what comes out of his mouth is likely uncensored bravado. Give him a nudge on this one but don’t be too surprised to hear more nonsense in the years to come. He’s just howling at the moon. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/29 "2012-09-14T20:50:31Z")
At the age of 9, I doubt I knew what the words “gay”, “homosexual”, or “rape” meant. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/30 "2012-09-14T21:11:31Z")
He’s 9 and he knows about rape? At what age was he first introduced to the concept of plain old intercourse? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/31 "2012-09-14T21:35:47Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > A while ago we had this conversation: > > Her: “I do think that two men or two women should be able to get married and everything, but I still think it’s kind of disgusting.” > Me: “Well, as long as you recognize their rights, it’s OK not to like someone’s behavior or beliefs. But to be fair, you probably think straight sex is disgusting too.” > Her: **Emphatic, wide-eyed nod** That’s the cutest thing ever! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/32 "2012-09-14T22:07:39Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > He’s 9 and he knows about rape? At what age was he first introduced to the concept of plain old intercourse? You’ve got to walk before you can run. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/33 "2012-09-14T22:08:22Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > He’s 9 and he knows about rape? At what age was he first introduced to the concept of plain old intercourse? I suspect most kids learn the swearing definition of the word ‘fuck’ before they learn the literal. Same with rape, I would imagine. I see/hear it in gamespeak fairly regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697/34 "2012-09-14T22:08:53Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You’ve got to walk before you can run. They can run? FAR too old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-nine-year-old-brother-has-some-odd-notions-about-homosexuality/634697.md?page=1)