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Sexual Behaviors - Preschool
Understanding What is Normal & When to Be Concerned
Green Light: Natural & Expected
- Touches or rubs own genitals when diaper changed, going to sleep, tense, excited or afraid
- Touches private parts of "familiar adults and children
- Takes advantage of opportunity to look at nude people
- Asks about genitals, breasts, intercourse, and babies
- Erections, likes to be nude, shows others their genitals
- Interested in watching others go to the bathroom
- Uses "dirty" words for bathroom and sexual functions
- Interested in own feces
- Plays doctor, inspecting the bodies of others
- Puts something in genitals or rectum one time out of curiosity or exploration
- Plays house in the roles of mommy and daddy
Yellow Light: Of Concern
- Continues to rub/touch genitals in public after being told not to
- Continuous questions about genital differences, sexual behaviors, or body parts after all questions have been answered
- Touches private parts of adults not in the family, unknown child, or familiar people after being told "no," asked to be touched himself
- Stares at nude people after already having seen many people nude
- Continuous erections
- Wants to be nude in public after being told no consistently and repeatedly
- Continues to use dirty words after being told not to
- Smears feces on wall or floor more than one time
- Continues to play doctor even after being told not to
- Puts something in own or others genitals or rectum after being told not to
- Humping other children with no clothes on
Red Light: Seek Professional Help
- Touches/rubs self to the exclusion of normal childhood activities, hurts own genitals by touching or rubbing, wants to masturbate to nude pictures or displays them
- Plays male or female roles in an angry, sad, or aggressive manner, hates own/other sex
- Sneakily touches adults. Makes others allow their touching, demands that others touch them, demands to see others' privates
- Asks people to take of their clothes, tries to forcibly undress people
- Asks unfamiliar people sexual questions, sexual knowledge exceeds age appropriateness
- Painful erections
- Aggressive or fearful in demand for privacy
- Refuses to put on clothes, secretly shows self in public despite scolding
- Refuses to leave people alone in bathroom
- Displays fear or anger about birth, babies, or intercourse
- Continues to use dirty words despite scolding, talks about sex or sex acts habitually
- Repeatedly plays in feces after scolding
- Forces other child to play doctor, to take off clothes, forces others to play sexual games
- Any coercion, force, pain, in putting something in genitals or rectum of self of other child
- Simulated or real intercourse without clothes on, oral sex