All children have sexual feelings already before birth. These feelings
can find many different ways of expression. It is important for the
healthy development of the child that these feelings and impulses are
not suppressed or condemned. Several scientific investigations show that
those sexual activities that children spontaneously engage in for the
sake of pleasure and affection are not harmful (except for the rare
extreme cases where the activity entails physical damage). But it can
harm a child emotionally if a third party intervenes and becomes shocked
by what has happened. The possibly hysterical reaction from well-
intentioned adults may cause serious psychological problems for the
child, who feels shameful and guilty for having enjoyed something that
others regard as abominable, and possibly for causing somebody the child
loves to go to jail.

On the other hand, everybody agrees that sexual activities that happen
against the child's will and which the child does not feel confident
about may cause severe psychological trauma.

Unfortunately, many people do not recognize the difference between
voluntary and coercive relationships and therefore intervene with
unnecessarily drastic means towards relationships that the children have
experienced as positive. Needless to say, such a drastic intervention
does more harm than good.

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