As INFANT,「rod」in this case may refer to a finger or thumb appendage, with「tonguing mouth copulation」as the action employed when thumb-sucking by a YOUTH.
Chinese sources state this glyph is a Japanese variant of 兒,「copulating with cavity having two sets of lips.」A fact of life for all species that reproduce sexually, the results of a「prior, former copulation」is often the birth or hatching of a YOUTH, an INFANT, the YOUNG OFFSPRING of the animal or plant. Nonetheless for the human species,「rod with tonguing mouth copulation」also refers children who were used in China as home-schooled sexual services providers at a very young age, evident with these elements and as described in many, many other glyphs…training and dis-integrating feet later to become a sexual services provider started between the ages of 2 and 5 years. Learning「the former old ways of copulation」prior to being sold to a brothel served to increase the price obtained by a destitute parent.
Adults of many species copulate with immature individuals, with their own offspring being no exception.
「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
[ https://docx2.com/wp-content/uploads/Are-Any-of-the-Pharaphilias-in-DSM-Mental-Disorders_.pdf 2023-05-14 ]
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary…, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
[ https://www.zum.de/whkmla/sp/0910/hersheys/hersheys5.html 2011-04-05 ]
「Historical accounts from the 18th century indicate that adult-child sex (particularly same-sex pairings) were an accepted practice in China, Japan, Africa, Turkey, Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic areas of India (Trumbach, 1977). In 19th century London the going price for a virginal, 12-year-old girl, of good background, was reported to be 400 pounds (Bullough, 1964).」
[ https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/legal-social-and-biological-definitions-pedophilia 2012-01-01 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 兒|儿
Japanese EDRDG: newborn babe, child, young of animals
Unihan extended: son, child, oneself; final part

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