Opinion of Sigmund Freud

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Imagine if in the 21st century, a bearded, bespectacled intellectual were to claim that children are innately obsessed with sex, particularly with their own parents.  He'd probably be lynched, figuratively speaking.

Freud established that children from about second grade until puberty are asexual, and that any attempt to have sex with children in latency is abuse. The preceding Oedipal stage is something to grow out of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_stage