A mum was left humiliated after her five year old son began impersonating the sound of an orgasm he admitted he heard from a group of older boys at school. Carly Mctavish revealed that the shocking incident happened during the school break when the five year old was playing handball with his eight year old brother and their pals.
She was sitting close by and heard the youngsters arguing about the rules of their games before she heard the high-pitched, over dramatic mimicking sound of an orgasm, which left all the boys in fits of laughter. The noise was briefly followed with hushing noises before the fake orgasm was imitated again but this time it was much clearer, the Daily Star reports.
The traumatised mum said that the sound left her stunned as she realised it had came from her little boy. Writing to Mamamia, she said: “Although I wanted to crawl into a hole and pretend this wasn’t happening, I took a deep breath, faked a breezy smile and casually walked outside.”
She asked her the boys what they were laughing about - not wanting to jump to conclusions. A move which only created more giggles.
She explained one of the boy's friends said the noise “means... like... S.E.X,". Panicked the mum considered her next move, not ready to speak to her five and eight-year-old about sex, never mind porn.
Her son admitted he had copied the sound after hearing the ‘big boys’ from school make it. Carly wrote about how children can come into contact with explicit content in a myriad of ways - no matter how careful you are with the internet and devices because it’s not always intentional.
Leading sexual consent educator, Dr Joy Townsend, suggests that conversations about sex should begin a lot earlier than parents have traditionally initiated in the past. She said: “Children are so wonderfully curious, and the younger a child is the less stigma and shame they will hopefully have attached to sexuality when it really counts.
''There is a saying within the sex education community, inspired by a free resource for Australian parents developed by WA Health, which is 'talk soon, talk often. The earlier we engage with our children about conversations that may be potentially uncomfortable - like masturbation or pornography - the easier and more productive those conversations will be."
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