Glad to hear your T is dealing with these issues in a professional way.
In psychoanalytic thinking, which is where the ideas originated from, generally any feelings of pleasure are thought of as sexual, including the infant-mother feelings, as I quoted below. So it really depends on your therapist's way of thinking.
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Adult sexuality
What sexuality does psychoanalysis talk about?
Sexuality, from a psychoanalytic point of view, refers to pleasure in the broad sense of the term: sources of pleasure and how human beings act to obtain it. Genital adult sexuality is only one expression of something much more complex...
These diffuse pleasures and the zones they are associated to, intertwined with the tenderness in the relationship with primary caregivers, are called sexual by psychoanalysis because later on in life, when puberty arrives, they acquire a clearer sexual meaning and then form part of ordinary adult sexual activity which is the source of the greatest pleasure of all.
Infantile sexuality
One of Freud’s most important discoveries was the role sexuality plays during childhood, how it manifests itself in different parts of the body and how it acts on the relationships with primary caregivers.
At the beginning of life the baby’s body has zones that give it a specific pleasure-sensuality and it learns that certain actions result in obtaining certain pleasures. The mouth, the skin, the **** and the genitals ––what psychoanalysis calls erogenous zones–– give the baby concrete pleasures linked to eating, being touched, defecating, rubbing the genitals and being physically taken care of by the primary caregivers. The way these pleasures are sufficiently satisfied and frustrated (or not) will have consequences (favorable and unfavorable) in the development of pleasure seeking and displeasure avoiding in the future adult.
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My T views it as above, and I make sense of it this way too. Sexuality seems to start young to keep the human race going, an intrinsic need....