| | in the house, in places such as later sexual performance, and ability for affection and
intimacy (cf. Finch, 1982; Goodson, 1991; Martinson, 1977; Mead, mentioned in Goodson,
1991). Although a few of these writers (cf. Ellis, cited in Goodson, 1991) make reference
to the cross-cultural ubiquity of youth exposure to parental nudity - although
objecting to alarmist positions taken by Western commentators who fail to supply
supportive data - the cross cultural record is not usually explicit on the issue of
actual exposure of children to parental nudity. It does, however, present a strong case for
the universality of parent-child cosleeping or room sharing (e.g., Barry and Paxton, 1971;
Caudill and Plath, 1966; Gardner, 1975; Lozoff et al., 1998; Morelli et al., 1992;
Stephens, 1972; Whiting, 1964; Whiting and Edwards, 1988).
inferred that under such conditions large numbers of the world's population of youngsters
are exposed to parental nudity. Lastly, a third group of writers stress the relevance of
the context in which childhood exposure to nudity takes place, insisting that outcomes are
mediated by such contextual variables as gender, age of child, family climate, cultural
Exposure to Scenes of Parental Sexuality (Primal Scenes)
Freud and his followers chose the term "primal scenes" to refer to visual or auditory
exposure of children to parental sexual intercourse, and subsequent dream elaborations on the
Occasion (Dahl, 1982). Despite the identification of such vulnerability by psychoanalysts and
others as uniquely dangerous to the mental health of children, there are, once again, light
We could find just one
Preponderance study (Rosenfeld et al., 1980) and two studies of initial response and
Following adult performance (Hoyt, 1978, 1979). Naturally, https://s3.amazonaws.com/beach-naturist/grandma-naked-on-beach.html of case studies
exist, including an extremely abundant psychoanalytic literature describing putative effects of
exposure to primal landscapes. These writers have described the traumatagenic issues by
referring to "a) the erotically charged character of the exposure, resulting in undischarged
libidinal energy and concomitant stress; b) the sadomasochistic content of fantasy
misinterpretation of the event; and c) the exacerbation of oedipal desires and resultant
castration anxiety or other anxieties of retaliation" (Okami, 1995, p. 56).
Again, however, the few efforts to validate these ideas empirically don't support
predictions of harm.
Emotional damage has been exaggerated.
Ending by two paths: First, exposure to primal scenes appeared to be rather
Common, with the most conservative estimates as high as 41 Rosenfeld et al.
Proposed that given https://s3.amazonaws.com/beach-naturist/absolutely-naked-beach.html of event, variables apart from the primal scene qua
primal scene must cause injury when it occurs. Second, parents reported
Mainly neutral and noncomprehending responses from their small kids [Mathematical
Expression Omitted]. On the other hand, some children appeared to react with
Hence, the fairly dark portrait appearing
from psychoanalytic literature was mostly absent from these parent reports.
Hoyt (1978, 1979) queried college students about their childhood exposure to scenes of
parental sexuality. He found that although these pupils reported that their exposure had
resulted in mainly negative psychological reactions at the time, the exposed group didn't
differ from the nonexposed group on self-report evaluations of "present well-being" or
frequency of and satisfaction with present sexual relations. Moreover, these subjects
recalled exposure mainly at prepubescent and pubertal ages. Given that the mean ages
for first exposure reported by parents in the Rosenfeld et al. (1980) studies were between
4 and 6, it's feasible that subjects in Hoyt's investigations weren't reporting their
first actual exposure to scenes of parental sexuality. Consequently, findings of exposure at
peripubertal ages are of limited value in evaluating consequence of exposure to primal scenes
generally, because with a few exceptions, primal scenes have been defined in the
literature as occasions of early childhood. That's, responses including "castration anxiety" and
"Oedipal desires" are said to be of most critical significance in the lives of very young
Kids.
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continue to stress the possibility of damage in exposure to parental nudity and primal scenes.
Therefore, nudist neptune festival are significant in starting to resolve this question.
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