title: Children and adolescents as sexual beings: cross-cultural perspectives.
abstract: This article offers a broad perspective on child and adolescent behaviors, which are seen by different Western definitions as associated with sexual/erotic implications. This article also demonstrates that basic definitions or meanings that many modern Western societies consider important are viewed as unimportant in other societies. Topics such as masturbation, child-adult sexual activities or cross-generational marriages, same-sex activities, and sexual indoctrination are viewed differently among many groups.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Bravo Murillo 38, Madrid 28010, Spain. janieto@poli.uned.es
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Nieto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003075:Coitus; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*