MAN, I FORGET how young I was, but I was YOUNG! They say all sorts of things about young boys that weren't true about me. YEAH, I was infatuated with a few girls LONG before I was even 9. Heck, I had one friend, I wasn't infatuated with her, but she was a friend and we went to school together, so everyone made fun about her being my "girl friend". We used to have this saying, that I would parrot. "She is a girl, and my friend, but not my "girl friend"."
They would tease girls also, but it was more acceptable with girls. Just look at dennis the menace! Margaret is always trying to get dennis to go with her, and dennis and his friends berate it. Still, my class mates, TV, and things I read seemed to indicate that couldn't happen until later. STUPID, I know, but....
HEY, books and TV were really all I had! NO computers! NO internet! 8-(
(tangental rant and TMI removed)
There ARE different types of appreciation(let's put it that way) for beauty. It doesn't always have to be sexual. I guess THAT is another way in which I am different from how some say I should be.
Steve