You don’t need a Psychology degree (ahem, like me) to be familiar with Freud’s Oedipus Complex. Yes, all boys subconsciously want to possess their mothers and do away with their fathers. Yeah, yeah, heard it so many times before.

But the other night I was bathing my young boy (who just turned 1 years old) and I was really being thorough and making sure he was sparkling clean at the end of the day. It may not be a pretty job but I especially ensured I cleaned the many crevices and folds of his genital area. He seemed unaware of my determination and focus of my actions and just continued happily splashing about and playing with plastic toys.

Now sometimes he has gotten a baby erection during these cleaning sessions (no big whoop, it is to be expected). But then I realized for most young boys (as babies), their first experience with boners are with their mothers (probably in the bath, like what I was experiencing). And then early attachments with mothers would totally be associated with sexual arousal eventually.

Hmmm, maybe Freud wasn’t a crazy person at all and was actually basing his theories on universally observed behaviours?