Calderone M S
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1983 Jun;34(6):528-30. doi: 10.1176/ps.34.6.528.
The author contends that a primary cause of sexual problems is failure to teach children about sex before they reach adolescence. Physical and mental growth are nurtured and supported throughout infancy and childhood, while sexual development is stifled or distorted. As a result children reach adolescence with their natural eroticism maimed. The author pleads for a basic change in the attitudes of adults, so that parents will begin to teach their children about sexuality. By adolescence children should be prepared to understand and accept their capacity for sexual expression and be fully aware of when and how it might or might not be appropriate.
作者认为，性问题的一个主要原因是在儿童进入青春期之前没有对他们进行性教育。在婴儿期和儿童期，身体和心理的成长得到了培育和支持，而性发育却受到抑制或扭曲。结果，孩子们进入青春期时，他们天生的性欲已经受损。作者呼吁成年人的态度要有一个根本转变，这样父母就会开始向孩子传授性知识。到青春期时，孩子们应该准备好理解并接受自己的性表达能力，并充分意识到何时以及如何进行性表达可能是合适的，何时不合适。
