Abstract
Abstract When children can satisfy their sexual curiosity and even when they are hindered in doing so, they learn something about specific aspects of sexuality, e.g., they construct a mental representation of their bodies and those of other people, including the sexual organs. An in-depth exploratory study on the process of body discovery has been conducted on 26 German children. In this article results are reported on children's interest in other people's genitals: their behavior, aspects of the situations in which the interest becomes manifest, and changes in interest from the second to the sixth year of life. Methods of data collection were observation by parents over the course of the second year of life and interviews with mothers at the beginning of the third and in the sixth year of life.
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