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0-4 years: Infant, toddler and pre-school
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Age appropriate sexual behaviours
- Touching or rubbing her/his own genitals
- Likes to be nude
- Showing others his or her genitals
- Playing doctors or nurses
- Playing mummies or daddies
- Touching or looking at private parts of other children or familiar adults
- Using slang words/dirty language for bathroom and sexual functions eg 'shit' or 'fuck', talking about 'sexing'.
Concerning sexual behaviours
- Persistent masturbation which does not cease when told to stop it
- Forcing another child to engage in sexual play
- Sexualised play with dolls eg 'humping' a teddy bear
- Touching the private parts of adults not known to the child
- Chronic peeping behaviour
Very concerning sexual behaviours
- Persistently touches or rubs self to the seclusion of normal childhood activities, hurts own genitals by rubbing or touching
- Simulating sex with other children with or without clothes on
- Oral sex
- Sexual play involving forceful, anal or vaginal penetration with objects
For further information please refer to the booklet Age Appropriate Sexual Behaviour in Children and Young People. Hard copies of this booklet can be obtained from SECASA on (03) 9928 8741.
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Copyright Updated: 19 Aug 2009
The South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault acknowledges the traditional Aboriginal owners of country throughout Victoria. We pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past, present and future.