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I just want to say that I still remember what it was like to be around those ages...I remember being chased by boys quite young (at 8 or 9), and there being kissing games and such. Maybe there was no sexual desire, but there was definitely a curiosity. I remember having crushes on boys as early as 7. I thought about sex occasionally at 12. I discovered masturbation at about 9 or 10. This may be, to some degree, a generation thing that we will never understand. I remember being 14 on the school bus and hearing little kids of 7 saying pretty strong swear words and talking about sex and thinking the world must be crazy. That being said, I'd say this can only be rape...how could she have consented to something almost completely alien to her? (Knowing about something isn't the same as actually knowing what it is in reality).
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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