Having sex is what stains childhood purity, children now feel suffocated by the restrictions, denials, and protections aimed at prohibiting their sexualization. Under the heirarchy, sexualities in minors are constructed in negative terms such as deviance, delinquency, degeneration, and dangerous to reproductive health, sexual risk-taking, coercive or non-consensual, abusive, exploitative, sources of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, social stigma, taboo, criminal, defilement, child abuse/assault, paedophilia, pederasty, rape, gender-based violence, and harmful traditional customs.