I challenge your implication that all sexual behaviour in children comes from incestuous or non-incestuous sexual abuse. My understanding of the literature on children's sexual behaviour is that there are many influences on this behaviour and that non-abused children can show a wide spectrum of sexual behaviours. Findings from abused children must be compared to sexual behaviours of children who have not experienced abuse in order to get an accurate idea of the effects of sexual abuse. Having said that, in child siblings of similar age who engaged in sexual behaviour together, I would be concerned about how involved the behaviour was and where it had come from. In other words, sexual behaviour that seems developmentally inappropriate _may_ indicate experience of abuse and that should be investigated. In adult siblings, in contrast, the incestuous aspect of the behaviour would be of most concern. The types of social implications that Dr Klein mentioned are helpful to consider for adults.
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