Children’s Doctor Games and Nudity at Danish Childcare Institutions
@article{Leander2018ChildrensDG, title={Children’s Doctor Games and Nudity at Danish Childcare Institutions}, author={Else-Marie Buch Leander and Per Linds{\o} Larsen and Karen Pallesgaard Munk}, journal={Archives of Sexual Behavior}, year={2018}, volume={47}, pages={863-875} }
AbstractThis article presents the first Danish study of the acceptance of children’s nudity and sexuality at Danish childcare institutions. The study revealed an important cultural shift in the attitude toward children’s nudity and sexual games, the so-called doctor games. Although these were quite accepted at Danish childcare institutions until the beginning of this century, the study showed that new, pervasive regulations had been established to control the child’s body and its sexuality. A…
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