In the swimming pool scene, with Wendy Peffercorn... I guess occasionally a preteen boy can be interested in girls, but all of them?
Anyway, I always laugh when Squints says "I've swum here every summer of my adult life... And every summer, there she is."
Not uncommon for pre-teen boys to have crushes, or at the very least think a girl around their age is beautiful. And there's also the occasional boy who gets into a girls a little sooner than his friends do.
shareI remember being around 8 and having a crush on the lifeguard, trying to kiss her on the cheek. Maybe life imitating art. I did love this movie growing up.
shareHeck no. By 4th grade, we were all obsessed with girls. I had my first kiss in Kindergarten. Kids start early.
None of it is serious. I remember being in 1st grade and the girls on the school bus all would play with their Barbie dolls and Ken and Barbie were always going to town on each other.
One forgets how early sexual behavior starts. You only start getting weird about it when puberty hits.
I don't know. I remember that when I was around 8 I was all about playing soccer (I live in Europe) and I thought girls were silly for liking quieter games.
shareWhen I was a little boy, I had a crush on a female classmate in kindergarten. By the time I was as old as the kids in this movie I had gone through several crushes on girls my own age and older. From the age of five or so, I always wanted to have a girlfriend. When I was eight, the boy across the street and I vied like Popeye and Bluto for the attention of a nine-year-old neighbor girl.
shareMe and my best friend used to ogle girls in bikinis at the beach when we were like 10-11. Preferably older teenage girls like Wendy. We had some interest/curiousity in girls and women but I didn't develop a sexual attraction until I hit puberty which happened at age 11 anyway. The first time I saw hardcore pornography happened when we found such a magazine in the woods when I was nine and I felt disgusted and traumatized still to this day.
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