# Sex drive in children **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169 "2003-06-16T06:38:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/21 "2003-06-17T08:26:56Z")
I remember having weird pseudosexual fantasies when I was 7 or 8. I did not masturbate until I was 15, but I remember daydreaming about being a huge monster and picking up girls and pulling their clothes off. Probably watched too many Japanese monster movies. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/22 "2003-06-17T09:20:46Z")
Oh **SHIT**. Maybe they’re the **SAME THING**. That would explain some a bit… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/23 "2003-06-17T13:46:26Z")
Aren’t these feelings called stirrings? I had unspecific feelings for a few of my teachers and one or two of my classmates when I was in school. From kindergarten on up. Just about 5th or 6th grade did I know what I wanted to do with them and about that time I started being much less picky. By the time I was in 9th grade it was practically every woman I saw. But it wasn’t untill 12th grade that I finally got to do that with one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/24 "2003-06-17T13:50:35Z")
OH and I would like to add that evey time I’m around little 2 to 3 year old boys I see copping a feel of every womans breasts in the room or they burrow their head into their cleavage and I _know_ that grin they have on their face comes from really enjoying doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/25 "2003-06-17T13:56:08Z")
I started around 6 or 7. I always thought that was pretty normal. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/26 "2003-06-17T14:04:42Z")
OK, everyone agrees that kids masturbate. But, as has been noted, this could be simply because it feels good and not due to sex drive, however we want to define that. So let’s focus on another thing: I had sexual feelings towards other people (other kids, mostly), when I was a kid. I did feel the same stirrings then as I do know. In fact, as far as I can surmise, the only thing that has changed since then is my own reactions to those feelings, and that came with experience, not with puberty. I cannot remember a point at which my sexual responses suddenly became different. Is this usually the case, or am I different? Any studies made on this? ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/27 "2003-06-17T14:28:15Z")
I had sexual feelings towards other boys when I was a wee lad. I have masturbated ever since I remember and would often think about other boys masturbating with me. The fantasy part with other boys didn’t happen until after I was 4 or 5. It was also about that time that I learned boys aren’t allowed to marry other boys. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169/28 "2003-06-17T17:28:19Z")
That is wierd - I had no real sexual ideas at all until I started puberty. You are all freaks! 😉 Not seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-drive-in-children/182169.md?page=1)