Anatomically correct dolls - harmful or harmless?

[jenny_wren]

emily is 20 months and knows all the body
parts, why would i leave out the genitals?

that would only lead to more questions

as parents you are meant to teach your
children and i've always spoken to emily
like an adult, why dumb down the fact
that girls have vaginas and boys have penis'?

a child can not learn if you don't teach them
correctly, i'm not going to lie to my child and
tell her something different just because she's
young, she has a right to know what's on her body
and what it's for and at the moment her bum is
for going to the toilet, when she is old enough i will
teach her about sex but i still don't see nudity as
a sexual thing, our body parts have many functions
all of which i will tell her about ... ​

 

[Char&Bump-x]

Kyla's going to have anatomically correct baby dolls. I'd rather explain the difference between boys and girls bits than her ask me why her dolly cant wee and be stumped

 

[blinkybaby]

LOL sorry I thought we were just talking about baby dolls

We where but Peanutbean started to perv over action mans package

 

[blinkybaby]

I agree that nudity is not sexual - adults use their genitals to have sex but kids should have no knowledge of the sexual function of their genitals until they are quite a bit older. I wouldn't want my child to feel uncomfortable about their genitals or being naked so anatomically correct dolls IMO make the human body seem normal and natural. If you censor it, the child is obviously going to ask why?

 

[hopeandpray]

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[hopeandpray]

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[hopeandpray]

I'm a medical student so if every time I saw a 'sexual' body part I thought of sex I'd have gone mental by now
As for anatomically correct dolls I wasn't allowed one because they could all wee and mum thought that was too messy

 

[smokey]

9 times out of 10

i have sex with half my clothes still on

it's too cold to be fully naked ​

I can only afford a quicky while the baby is napping so im not waisting time getting undressed

 

[smokey]

I dont think nudity is sexual. its the intentions and how you perseve that person thats sexual.
Alot of people go about their daily life in nudist colonies and beaches and they dont see it as sexual, if they did they would soon get kicked out.

I sleep in the nude that isnt sexual (much to hubbys annoyance) plus when I sometimes have to bring LO into bed with me because he is having a bad night im still not wearing any clothes so what does that mean im being sexual towards my son.
I also dont wear any clothes when im in the bath with him but niothing sexual going on there.
I often get changed in front of my mum but nope still nothing sexual.

We wear clothes in public and cover certain areas because its just what has become socialy exeptable.
We dont go around naked purley out of common courtsey for others and because at some point in our lifes parents and sociaty has told us we shouldnt be showing these areas off not because we think people will jump on us and start trying to hump us just because we are naked

 

[pinklightbulb]

All my dolls had private parts. I never saw them as sexual, just that boys had this and girls had that. Nice and naive lol.

 

[kiwimama]

I remember my sister having a doll (I was a tomboy) that was anatomically correct. He was a boy and he had a penis and scrotum. It was all soft plastic so the penis couldn't be moved or anything. As a child, I never gave it a second thought that he had a penis, of course I knew that boys and girls had different genitals, but if we played dolls, and we cleaned his penis, there was never any kind of notion that it was anything even remotely sexual. Do they think that all kids are sex crazed dirty thinking creatures?

 

[BlackBerry25]

I'm too lazy to buy things online, but if the normal toy store we go to had them, I would def. buy some!

I see no problem whatsoever, and it would be easier to teach H about the differences if she could actually see the differences!

 

[Justagirlxx]

If nudity isn't sexual why don't you all show your children pornographic pictures?? Why the hell not?

 

[PeanutBean]

If nudity isn't sexual why don't you all show your children pornographic pictures?? Why the hell not?

Pornographic pictures are pictures of sex not nudity. I'd have no problem with Byron seeing people nude in a non-sexual context.

 

[Justagirlxx]

If nudity isn't sexual why don't you all show your children pornographic pictures?? Why the hell not?

Pornographic pictures are pictures of sex not nudity. I'd have no problem with Byron seeing people nude in a non-sexual context.

I meant pornographic pictures of just nudity, not sex.

So you are telling me you would be 100% okay with showing him pictures of a completely nude woman?

 

[Justagirlxx]

That is not right. I'm leaving this conversation because we obviously have polar opposite viewpoints. I will never understand liberals

 

[PeanutBean]

No I'd no problem at all with him seeing a nude woman, after all he sees me nude most days.

Actually we went to an art gallery a couple of months ago where there was an exhibition by this guy that makes the most amazing life-like sculptures of people. I forget his name but he has this giant naked man sat on a chair with every hair in place, and of course genitals included. There is also a naked couple spooning (like asleep not having sex). It's small and incredibly intricate and very vulnerable. Byron was with us.

A simple picture of someone nude is not pornography. A posed picture perhaps with props and suggestive gestures is pornography because it is constructed to elicit a sexual response.

You're right our views are entirely polar. I confess myself slightly astonished to find a modern woman with such Victorian attitudes towards the human body.

 

[PeanutBean]

For the record I am also vehemently opposed to pornography.

 

[AppleBlossom]

I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one but if she was given one I wouldn't take it off her

 

[coccyx]

How can a nude body be offensive? Does not mean it is pornographic, no sexual act taking place. My 3 girls know boys and girls are different as their younger brother is always stripping off! Nothing to be ashamed off