This suggestion resonates with Rousseau's prescriptions for Emile. 6 This image of the child in danger and in need of protection, and of the threat posed to childhood by sexuality, is explicit in Postman 1982. 7 Daniel Monk concurs writing that "the traditional construction of the child as a non-sexual innocent" is often protected by "excluding the sexual child from the category of childhood itself" this time in using a medical model of childhood. (Monk 2000, 187) 10

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