Well, that's an interesting development because most of us were children once and young boys didn't get erections and sexual sensations until puberty starts.

Young girls also never got any sensation in the clitoris until puberty either, many a gym teacher would tell of when they knew girls who were entering puberty because in certain age groups they'd tend to freeze at the top when climbing ropes in the gym, when the friction caused a sensation they had never had before (and no amount of rubbing would have produced). They'd climbed those ropes in gym class for years without sensation until puberty. Hormones don't trigger motivation to masturbate, the HUGE surge of hormones at puberty is what switches on the nerves that trigger the onset of sexual sensations in the genitals.

Pre pubescent kids rubbing themselves are likely mimicking what they have seen (and god knows they have access to a lot of shit these days even if parents aren't doing it in front of them). We tend to assume it must be sexual if they do it because WE associate genitals with sex, seemingly have forgotten that kids are not little adults.

BTW this was rarely a thing seen in nurseries until the last few years. Kids could also play in the street buck naked in the Summer 50 years ago and nobody would think anything of it because they were not sexual creatures yet. That would be impossible these days.

More likely though, they are mimicking behaviour they have seen and if it got them attention when they do it, then they would associate that action with attention and comfort. If they start making orgasmic noises then they are definitely copying someone, whether parent or what they have seen on screen (could even be as innocent as Harry Met Sally scene, doesn't have to be porn).

If a girl is constantly rubbing her genitals she may possibly have a sore crotch (bacterial infection maybe, if their underwear isn't washed and changed often for example). or she may be mimicking her mother if she is doing it at nap time at nursery. If she has seen her mother laying on the bed and rubbing herself she will associate that action with naps and comfort.

They are a bit like parrots in that sense of mimicking to learn. Don't forget the brain doesn't begin to start reasoning until 7 years old (hence the old Jesuit saying 'give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the Man'). Kids will believe anything they see and hear at that age which is why the trans programming is so dangerous.

I mimicked 'humping' apparently when I was about 6 months old. I was in my cot with my doll in parents bedroom, and my Mum and Dad were doing the business when Mum happened to glance over at me to make sure I was still asleep and they weren't disturbing me. Apparently I was watching them, and had rolled on top of my doll and was mimicking my Dad and humping it. Heh, freaked my Mum out and that was the end of their sexy session. My cot went in the next room after that. I wasn't doing it for comfort, I was merely copying what I was seeing because that is part of how children learn.

Today, the 'experts' would claim my infant 'humping' is clear evidence that babies need sex too, why else would poor little me trying to hump a doll/ Surely my parents were being cruel by denying me 'relief'. It's fucking absurd and the fact so many now believe it is alarming.

We are being programmed to view young children as capable of feeling sexual feelings and it is just our cruel culture which suppresses it and insists on waiting for puberty. As usual it's a monstrous lie.

I would be very wary of trusting any 'science' that claims pre-pubescent sexuality. Reminds me of the fake science Kinsey came up with to try and justify his degeneracy and of course was responsible for complete lies about sex and children (kids being sodomized apparently were not screaming in pain but suppressed pleasure).

I'd agree with you about some children playing with their genitals that isn't sexual, little boys can often fiddle with their dicks, coz it's just 'there' and dangling, or instead of sucking their thumb they may hold it like a comforter. Little girls not so much, rubbing the clitoris when it has no sexual feeling (for 99.9% of normally developed children) would just chafe, but they might like fiddling around the folds in curiosity (just like kids stick their fingers up their nose or in ears to explore what is there). But of course just like my innocent humping as an infant 'They' will use these example to justify their agenda of sexualising children.