ABSTRACT
Early childhood sexuality is a highly charged issue which is made more complex by news stories of child molestation, incest, and the violation of a child’s innocence. To comprehend fully the issue of childhood sexuality, researchers focus on the way culture interprets childhood as a specific time with a beginning and end with its own social and
physiological changes. This necessitates that one must first understand the bio-cultural aspects of childhood from a physiological view, as well as the role that one’s culture assigns to the physical body, in particular the genitals. An understanding of childhood relates to cultural conceptions of parenting, cultural notions of the family as well as kinship and descent.
