You have to wonder at the repressed nature of some Americans when you hear of a six year old boy being suspended from school in Brocton Massachusetts for sexual harrassment.
The boy allegedly stuck two fingers inside a classmate's waistband apparently after the girl had 'touched' him. Just what messages are adults sending to kids when they overreact like this? What will be his understanding of this reprimand? What will it say to him about affection or being physically close?

Kids should be able to touch each other without fear of reprimand particularly when they are young. They should be able to hold hands (as they used to in the playgrounds in my day) and they should, above all, be able to hug each other without fear of embarrassment or some prim spinster or religious nut screaming hell and damnation at them.

It's the only way they can learn to love, to appreciate each other and be human. Without that you end up with the coldness of isolation which can only lead to more complex problems in later life. You only have to look at the areas of the world where such repression exists to see what can happen.