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Rest assured that masturbation is a healthy part of growing up. The practice can start in infancy and continue right through adulthood. Some baby boys are born with an erection, and some baby girls are born lubricating. Like with adults, children touch themselves down there because doing so feels good, even though they cant yet derive. It doesnt cause physical harm, pose a health risk, or mean your child is going to turn into a sex maniac. Masturbation in young children isnt sexual (as it is for adults) because young children dont know what sex is. How common is masturbation in children? Most childrenboth boys and girlsplay with their external sex organs or private parts fairly regularly by the age of 5-6 years. By age 15, almost 100 of boys and 25 of girls have masturbated to the point of. Young people in this age group may view materials for sexual arousal have clear and detailed conversations about sex with friends get involved in sexual activity with a partner of a similar age what about masturbation in children? Masturbation is one of the most common sexual behaviours that parents seek. masturbation is completely safe sex, a way for young people to experience sexual pleasure not with other people, risk-free, and thats a good thing too, dr. Documentary looks at how technology and pornography are shaping the sexual identity of young girls. It informs our individual conceptions of autonomy, pleasure, identity and intimacy, sex education teacher kim cavill told huffpost. Trying to discourage, shame or eliminate it does young people a tremendous disservice. 1 it is characterized by self-stimulation of the genitalia frequently associated with unusual posture and movement, sweating, flushing, tachypnea, and typically begins in infancy and early childhood. 2 masturbation is a normal behavior in adolescence, occuring in 90 to 94 of males and 50 to 60 of females at some point in their lives. A young woman, whom i will call mary for claritys sake, admitted that she began masturbating at boarding school. In april of 1850, the same month and year that madame tussaud died, mary wrote a letter to a doctor seeking help for her condition and stating at the early age of twelve years i was sent to a boarding school for young ladies.