A girl’s erotic fantasy is directed at an adult man, not peers

Evidence

At an early age, the little girl already dreams she has reached the age of love; at nine or ten, she loves to make herself up, she pads her blouse, she disguises herself as a lady. She does not, however, look for any erotic experience with little boys: if she does go with them into the corner to play “doctor,” it is only out of sexual curiosity. But the partner of her amorous dreaming is an adult, either purely imaginary or based on real individuals: in the latter case, the child is satisfied to love him from afar. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 708

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Freud’s account of the girl’s Oedipal turn toward the father and the displacement of erotic fantasy onto an adult. — connects to: Adolescent girls eroticize imagined self-transformation rather than actual sexual encounters — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 709

Broader Connections

• Adolescent girls eroticize imagined self-transformation rather than actual sexual encounters #expands (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 709