What Does Doug Wilson Believe?

Women & Domesticity

Girls Who Fall Into Sexual Sin Usually Lacked Their Father’s Love, Starting With Climbing on Men’s Laps at Seven

That is when she started climbing on the laps of visiting uncles and friends, but she knew on some level that they did not really like it, which made her more needy.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2001, from Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, cited to the source.

A young man with a sexual problem has a sexual problem. But a young girl with a sexual problem usually has a security problem. […] This, from a seven-year-old girl, was a nuisance, and she found herself further ignored, brushed away, or disliked. This only served to make her more insecure. That is when she started climbing on the laps of visiting uncles and friends, but she knew on some level that they did not really like it, which made her more needy. And then a miracle happened—she developed her figure, became sexually attractive, and all of a sudden she was awash in male attention.

— Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, Canon Press, 2001, Chapter 16: “Girls and Sex” (subsections “Respecting Women” and “Living Snares”)