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Child Development and Sexual Behaviors By Jessi Varian SCY / 265 April 6, 2012 Tana Leigh Warren As we begin to grow from an infant/ toddler to adolescence/ teenager; we often go through different stages of development and sexual behavior. There are four different stages of one’s sexual development; which are infancy, 0-2 months, early childhood,3-8 years, preadolescence,9-13 and adolescence, which is teenage years. Sexual behavior begins when the fetus is still within the mothers belly; one method of sexual behavior that infants do directly during pregnancy and right after birth; they sucks their thumbs which is a sexual behavior. Male babies tend to have frequent erections as a sexual behavior as an infant. These sexual behaviors can allow these new born to have orgasms at five months for boys and four months for girls. Boys and girls learn to pelvic thrust at a rather early infant age to dolls or animals. Once boys and girls reach eight or nine months; they become even more curios and begin to masturbate. This curiosity hits its peak at fifteen months old. Stage two is when toddlers get curios enough to show their body parts to other little one’s or siblings. This is when doctor games and touchy feely things begin amongst the young and curios kids. Some kids around seven or eight years old will often want to become curios using their mothers breasts and body to figure out the questions that are in his or her mind. Next is the preadolescence stage; this is when kids begin to get curios with the opposite sexes. They begin to experiment on each other of the other sex gender. Touching themselves or others may arise during this stage and girl/ boy curiosity. The Final stage of adolescence; this is when puberty and wet dreams come along. Erections for boys become much more frequent.