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Home: Family & Friends: About Your Child: Age appropriate sexual behaviour
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Age appropriate sexual behaviours
- Self touching including masturbating
- Show me yours/I'll show you mine with same age children
- Like to hear and tell age appropriate dirty jokes
- Playing mummies and daddies
- Kissing/holding hands
- Mimicking or practicing observed behaviours eg pinching a bottom
Concerning sexual behaviours
- Continually rubbing/touching own genitals in public
- Persistent use of dirty words
- Wants to play sex games with much older or younger children
- Continually wants to touch private parts of other children
- Chronic peeping behaviour
Very concerning sexual behaviours
- Touches or rubs self persistently in private or public to the exclusion of normal childhood activities
- Rubbing genitals on other people
- Forcing other children to play sexual games
- Sexual knowledge too great for age
- Talks about sex and sexual acts habitually
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.