When kids start exploring their bodies

I didn't post this in the parent section because there are so few posters there that it would take a while to get a variety of responses. My (female) cousin's 9 year old daughter was recently caught by her mom masturbating. I say "caught" on purpose because my family is pretty conservative when it comes to sexual topics. I was over her house for dinner yesterday and overheard her and hubby talking. I didn't hear everything but my cousin was very angry with her daughter and and basically said that "good girls don't do that." I never had the "talk" from my parents. My dad and I used to watch "Cops" on TV and he would be changing the channel when prostitution came up even in my late teens because I apparently couldn't handle knowing what it was (but I could handle meth heads and broken families on the show?). I educated myself on sexuality. I'm trying to improve my knowledge all the time and listen to women more. How would you react to children (not necessarily sexually active teens) exploring their bodies? Would you be OK with it? What have you done in your family? I don't want to raise my future kids the way I was raised.

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