Is it normal that my 4 year old son likes looking at women in bikinis?
Recently, I walked into my son's room and saw him gazing excitedly at a women's swimsuit magazine that belonged to his mother. The part that seemed so unusual to me is the fact that he is only 4 years old. This is also unusual because most boys my son's age usually don't like girls. His eyes were wide and looked like they were going to pop out of his eye sockets like slinkies!
I asked him what he liked about it and he grinned at me and said: "Daddy, these ladies look very pretty because they don't have clothes on!"
I wouldn't have minded so much except that he looked like he was going to drool like a rabid dog. I've seen middle-aged men less aroused than that! Not only that but it was my wife's magazine and my son is only 4 years old. I'm not sure she would be happy with a kid his age looking at a magazine like that although the women were only wearing bikinis. They weren't naked after all!
Either way, I non-chalantly took the magazine away. At that point, he went on to play with a toy like a normal boy.
Later at the dinner table, he expressed his interest in the subject in front of my wife and me. He once again said: "I like those pictures of those ladies in their swimsuits. They looked very pretty without clothes." My wife and I laughed it off like it was no big deal, but is it?
He hasn't gone through puberty yet and he's 4! Is that normal?