Understanding What is Normal & When to Be Concerned

Green Light: Natural & Expected

• Foreplay (petting, making out, fondling)
• Hugging, kissing, holding hands
• Interest in erotic material
• Jokes and obscenities within cultural norms
• Monogamist intercourse (stable or serial)
• Mutual masturbation
• Sexual innuendo, flirting, courtship
• Sexually explicit conversations with peers
• Solitary masturbation

Yellow Light: of Concern

• Intense interest in erotic material
• Mooning and obscene gestures
• Promiscuous sexual intercourse
• Pulling up skirt/pulling down pants
• Sexual graffiti (chronic, humiliating, threatening)
• Sexual preoccupation/anxiety
• Sexually aggressive themes/obscenities
• Sexually embarrasses others
• Single occurrences of peeping, exposing, rubbing against other people
• Violates others body space

Red Light: Seek Professional Help

• Attempting to expose others genitals
• Chronic preoccupation with sexually aggressive pornography
• Compulsive masturbation
• Degrading, humiliating sexual themes
• Sexual offenses:
• Bestiality
• Child sexual abuse
• Exhibitionism
• Forced sexual contact
• Obscene phone calls
• Rubbing against other people
• Voyeurism
• Sexually explicit conversations with younger peers
• Sexually explicit threats (verbal or written)
• Touching genitals of others without permission