Some boys have their first experience of masturbation by watching other boys, and it’s not unusual for groups of boys to masturbate together. Some boys also experiment with masturbation by touching another boy’s penis, by masturbating another boy to the point of orgasm or by letting another boy masturbate them. Boys who do this often worry about whether this is odd. Sometimes they think that this means that they are homosexual.
Homosexuals are people who prefer to have sexual contacts with people who are the same sex as they are. Most adults in our society are heterosexuals, which means that they prefer to have sexual experiences with people of the opposite sex. Now you should know that many boys engage in some form of what we call ‘sex play’ with other boys as they’re growing up, just as some girls engage in sex play with other girls, and some children engage in sex play with children of the opposite sex as they’re growing up. None of these sexual experiences is at all odd in the sense of being uncommon or unusual.
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