Don't Ask....Don't Tell. Good Policy?

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Originally Posted by Jeffrey

Experimentation and orientation are contrastingly distinct.

Freud claims that most boys entertain same-sex curiosity at the youngest stages of life. This isn't because of orientation, though. It's sexual curiosity.

Please don't misrepresent Freud.

Contemporary psychology could be said to have begun with Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920),

1 Oral stage of development
2 Anal stage
3 Phallic stage
4 latency stage
5 genital stage.

In the young male, the Oedipus conflict stems from his natural love for his mother, a love which becomes sexual as his libidal energy transfers from the anal region to his genitals.
Freud goes further to mention fixations.

Auto-eroticism is a condition that pre-exists the formation of the ego; elsewhere Freud refers to the "polymorphous perversity" of the infant.

Freud mentions in passing the import of such notions as 1) the erotogenic zones, 2) auto-eroticism, 3) sado- masochism, 4) the inherent bisexuality of children, and so on.