To be surprised DS knows about sexuality?

[Moisdrol]

I was chatting with DS, 7, earlier this afternoon and we were talking about his friends in school and he mentioned that he thinks his friend is a lesbian because he caught her looking at Millie Bobby Brown on Google images twice. I was quite surprised by this because I or DH have never mentioned anything about sexuality before (not that I have a problem with him knowing about LGBT topics). When I asked him why he thought she might be a lesbian he just said because he thinks she has a crush on Millie Bobby Brown. I never knew about sexuality at 7 so I’m really surprised by his peers knowing about it. I’ve also heard kids in his class using bad language which was shocking to me. Is this common??

So much minimising of childhood sexual awakening here. It may be uncomfortable to acknowledge that your 8 year old is starting to become sexually aware, but denying it isn’t helping them at all.

Somewhere around 12 or 13 it becomes more sexual and there are kisses and touching involved.
In your experience. I was doing all of that at primary school. Some of my male classmates aged 10-11 used to play a game where they would see which teachers they could get an erection by thinking about. No doubt there were other classmates behind the curve who wouldn’t yet understand the game or be able to participate.

If he knows that straight people exist and have relationships, he already 'knows about sexuality'. Knowing that gay people also exist and also have relationships is exactly the same level of knowledge as knowing about straight people.