🚫 What it means to have grown up with exposure to age-inappropriate sexual content
Growing up with exposure to age-inappropriate sexual content meant you saw and heard things about sex that kids shouldn't be exposed to, forcing you to make sense of adult matters before your mind was ready.
Those early experiences may have left you feeling either uncomfortably aware of sexual undertones or completely turned off by them. You sometimes wonder what "normal" is when it comes to sex and relationships, since your early reference points were so confusing. Your early blueprint mixed adult behaviors with childish understanding, leaving permanent distortions about healthy sexuality.
Your intimacy boundaries might swing between fortress walls and open floodgates—the middle ground feels like uncharted territory. You may have absorbed the belief that sexuality is either something shameful to hide or the main currency for getting love and attention from others. At your core, you might secretly question if you can love healthily at all when your earliest reference points portrayed sexuality in distorted ways.