Josephs Lawrence
Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, 11530, USA,
Arch Sex Behav. 2015 May;44(4):1059-69. doi: 10.1007/s10508-015-0498-0. Epub 2015 Feb 18.
Scattered and not widely disseminated evidence from primatology, anthropology, and history of childhood sexuality support the hypothesis that throughout much of human behavioral evolution that human children have learned about sex through observing parental sexuality and then imitating it in sexual rehearsal play with peers. Contemporary theories of psychosexual development have not considered the possibility that young children are predisposed to learn about sex through observational learning and sexual rehearsal play during early childhood, a primate-wide trait that is conserved in humans but suppressed in contemporary contexts.
来自灵长类动物学、人类学以及儿童性史的零散且未广泛传播的证据支持了这样一种假说：在人类行为进化的大部分时间里，人类儿童通过观察父母的性行为，然后在与同伴的性预演游戏中模仿它来了解性。当代性心理发展理论尚未考虑到幼儿倾向于在幼儿期通过观察学习和性预演游戏来了解性的可能性，这是一种在灵长类动物中普遍存在的特征，在人类中得以保留，但在当代环境中受到抑制。
