presexual

"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and others have played with scale before, but Oz's film differentiates itself by its intimacy -- it's a kind of presexual love story between a boy and his man/toy, who is both his mentor and his charge.

A Kid Finds His Inner Adult 2008

The cardiologist spoke of the importance of masturbation to elderly women, many of whom have had unsatisfying sex lives, and the pediatrician spoke of different cultural attitudes toward children's presexual masturbation and how they can incur shame.

Joyce McFadden: In 2008 Female Masturbation Still Stirs Anxiety 2008

That's reductio ad Hitlerium thinking at work -- maybe pedophiles use a similar rationalization for sex with presexual human beings, but that doesn't mean the argument is wrong when applied to relations between sexually mature human beings.

Keisha and Mary. Ann Althouse 2006

There is nothing so hypnotic as the romantic daydreams of the hopelessly presexual, and back then all of my daydreams involved young Dana Brett and unlacing those boots.

Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003

And I did notice Dana, but I was so single-minded then — a mad scientist devoted to my work with tall, statuesque Susan, we were like a small Intercourse Research and Development firm — that it never occurred to me to go out with anyone else, especially my old grade-school friend, the eternally presexual, perpetually cute Dana.

Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003

Clevenger, Spitzka, Kiernan, and others have also regarded the sexual impulse as protoplasmic hunger, tracing it back to the presexual times when one protozoal form absorbed another.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

The word "incest," though it has been used by Freud himself, seems scarcely a proper word to apply to the vague and elementary feelings of children, especially when those feelings scarcely pass beyond a stage of non-localized and therefore really presexual feelings (in the ordinary use of the term "sexual") which may be regarded as natural and normal.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

In its portrayal of students in revolt "Matilda" also sometimes suggests a presexual version of the 2006 musical "Spring Awakening," which it quotes disarmingly in its last number.

NYT > Global Home By BEN BRANTLEY 2012

In its portrayal of students in revolt "Matilda" also sometimes suggests a presexual version of the 2006 musical "Spring Awakening," which it quotes disarmingly in its last number.

NYT > Home Page By BEN BRANTLEY 2012

When presexual minds find themselves in newly sexualized bodies, there is emotional damage that can be done as well--unwanted attention from boys or even men.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011