Basic Trope: A child who acts in a sexually precocious way.
- Straight: 10-year-old Dylan wants to have sex with his teacher and leaves perverted notes on her desk.
- Exaggerated:
- 5-year-old Dylan has had sex with many girls his age and would risk getting older women in trouble by doing the same with them.
- Fille Fatale
- Downplayed:
- Dylan possesses a curiosity about sex but isn't particularly interested in it.
- Precocious Crush, if the child's interest in the adult is romantic rather than sexual.
- Kidanova - That being, a boy is very popular with young girls but not in a sexual kind of way.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager - Dylan is a little older, but is just as virile as he would be if he were younger.
- Justified:
- Prepubescent children often lack a full understanding of sexuality and have a very naïve yet curious attitude towards it.
- Dylan has hit puberty early and thus has obtained sexual emotions.
- Dylan has found a Porn Stash in his mother's closet and curiously learns about sex.
- Inverted:
- No Hugging, No Kissing
- Dylan finds anything relating to sex absolutely disgusting (possibly because he thinks Girls Have Cooties). When he sees Alice naked, he screams, averts his eyes and runs away.
- Dirty Old Man / Dirty Old Woman
- Old People are Nonsexual
- Dylan is a fully-grown Manchild who seems to know nothing about sex, displaying the attitudes of a normal child.
- Subverted:
- Dylan was only acting sexually precocious in order to gain peer popularity.
- It turns out Dylan was mindlessly parroting things he'd heard from older kids or on TV.
- Double Subverted:
- ....only to reveal that his sexual precociousness was genuine and return to his perverted ways.
- ...which turns out to be a lie to save face.
- Parodied: ???
- Averted: Dylan does not have sexual desires.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Lampshaded: "I think kids are growing up too fast nowadays."
- Invoked:
- Dylan hit puberty early, causing him to experience unusual sexual feelings.
- Dylan’s father Edward, wanting Dylan to be manly and virile, hires a stripper to teach Dylan about sex.
- Defied: Dylan harbors rather mature thoughts about many of his acquaintances, but refuses to act on them because he's a good boy.
- Exploited:
- Dylan knows that an authority figure will get fired should they ever get involved in sexual activity with a minor, so he exploits their patience by exhibiting a sexualized attitude towards them.
- Bob gets Alice to babysit Dylan so he will annoy her.
- Alice has exhibitionistic tendencies and indulges with them with Dylan.
- Discussed: "Dylan is acting so naughty for a boy his age. He should be doing kids' stuff like running around and playing."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When Dylan walks in on Alice naked after a shower, he appears to be checking her out.
- Deconstructed:
- Dylan gets in serious trouble for his behavior.
- Dylan's teacher Brittany takes his behavior as a license to sexually abuse him. She eventually gets arrested and claims that he ”consented” to it, bringing up his lecherous behavior as "proof"..
- Reconstructed: Dylan decides to keep his behavior in a more private manner after the trouble he got in.
- Played for Laughs: Dylan keeps getting himself into increasingly ridiculous pickles in his vain attempts to woo his target.
- Played for Drama:
- Dylan was sexually abused at some point in his early childhood years and as a result is acting promiscuous from the aftermath.
- Dylan is sexually abusing another child.
- Dylan blackmails college student Alice into a sexual relationship by threatening to accuse her of raping him.
- Dylan’s babysitter Charlotte grooms him into a sexual relationship. When Dylan tries to back out, she attempts to murder him.
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