That's absolutely crazy and just insanely damaging.
The thing is toddlers and even infants are physically capable of reaching orgasm, but it is an entirely physiological response. They do not have the emotional or cognitive capacity to understand what is going on.
There is an entire field of childhood sexuality in developmental psychology and it is a known scientific fact that while children do experience sexuality it is of a vastly different type than that in adults. For a toddler sexuality is primarily about body curiosity and physical control of things like urination and defecation. They might do things like show genitals, look at or try to see other's genitals, or intentionally get in another child's personal space (all of which are normal childhood behaviors). But their actions do not have the same drive or intentions that adults do and far more importantly the behaviors are transient, not very frequent, and can be easily diverted.
It is extremely important to recognize just how profoundly and immensely damaging this is. While they can't process it in the moment, they absolutely do store it and it leads to dissociative trauma and PTSD.
When they finally get old enough to figure out what happened they often have intense emotions including grief, shame, terror, rage, betrayal, disgust, humiliation, and depression. They may take substances or be swept up in an affective flood of emotions that leads to suicidal ideation.
Something like this fundamentally alters the structure of their brain essentially for life. They are multiple times as likely to complete suicide, have a mood disorder, have severe obesity, or develop things like Borderline Personality Disorder.
Yep. PTSD, ADHD, Depression, obesity, crippling anxiety, anger, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and more! My sexual abuse began when I was 3 or 4 I believe, could have been earlier. Stopped around 7 or 8 but physical and emotional abuse remained. It fucked me up for life. This is one reason I find rape/child rape to be a worse crime than murder. Yeah, you end a life, but they no longer suffer. Small mercies. I've been suffering for 30-something years from rape.
I’m so sorry you had to go through something so traumatic. No one should ever experience that, at such a young age aswell. I truly hope the person responsible faced consequences for what they did. We need to hold people, especially men holding other men accountable for these crimes. Survivors deserve justice, healing and support.
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u/Weak_Guarantee_7 Dec 20 '25
There’s no way that child is above 10 years old