102) found that children who are not yet of school age make attempts at coitus.

The sexual play of children is by no means confined to father and mother games; frequently there are games of school with the climax in exposure and smackings, and occasionally there are games of being doctors and making examinations.

Thus a young English woman says: "Of course, when we were at school [at the age of twelve and earlier] we used to play with one another, several of us girls; we used to go into a field and pretend we were doctors and had to examine one another, and then we used to pull up one another's clothes and feel each other." These games do not necessarily involve the cooeperation of the sexual impulse, and still less have they any element of love.

But emotions of love, scarcely if at all distinguishable from adult sexual love, frequently appear at equally early ages.

They are of the nature of play, in so far as play is a preparation for the activities of later life, though, unlike the games, they are not felt as play.