ABSTRACT
Questions 5, 6 and 8 of the questionnaire, which have still to be dealt with, introduce the question of the development of sex, about which some preliminary remarks may be made.
The distinction between (a) interest in sex and (b) true sex impulses. First it is important to distinguish between the development of sex impulses or feelings and the beginnings of an interest in sex. Some psycho-analytic writers quote curiosity about sex as evidence of sex-development; whereas while sex maturity no doubt usually results in an interest in and discussion of sex affairs,1 we may expect curiosity about sex organs and sex differences, without any sex feeling, at least as intense as curiosity, say, about the life and structure of strange animals ; and this may be very keen in infancy.
