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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:03 PM Sep 2019

'A cesspool of deviancy': New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials

A half-dozen ex-wrestlers told POLITICO they were regularly harassed in their training facility by sexually aggressive men who attended the university or worked there. The voyeurs would masturbate while watching the wrestlers shower or sit in the sauna, or engage in sexual acts in the areas where the athletes trained, the former wrestlers said.

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Multiple former wrestlers have accused Jordan, a National Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee, of being among the faculty members who turned a blind eye to inappropriate behavior by the late Richard Strauss, the university’s former athletic doctor. Strauss allegedly preyed on male students during physicals, groping them to the point of making them ejaculate, according to one nurse who witnessed it and recounted the story in a video produced by alleged victims and obtained by POLITICO.

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Jordan used to work out with the students and use the sauna with them, even creating his own jocular “King of the Sauna” award at the end of the year for the wrestler who was best at trash talking his opponents and boasting of his successes post-practice.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/06/jim-jordan-harassment-ohio-state-wrestling-699192

Read this story and then go take a shower.

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'A cesspool of deviancy': New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials (Original Post) Generic Other Sep 2019 OP
Wtf ???? OnDoutside Sep 2019 #1
Perhaps a name change is in order for that "Sauna Award"? Zambero Sep 2019 #2
👍🏼 blm Sep 2019 #8
Yes. Dennis who set up a comfortable chair at the boys' shower room for his viewing pleasure. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #10
Just have some courage Gym JPK Sep 2019 #3
Ha!! Doesn't it thou Thekaspervote Sep 2019 #4
And he claims to not see this etc.? Obviously not a very good coach (or anything else for that... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #5
I was pretty grossed out by this Generic Other Sep 2019 #6
I agree w/ you. There is a higher level of responsibility to these young kids and he's ignored/ SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #7
Where's the deposition of Jordan and what he knew and when? dem4decades Sep 2019 #9

keithbvadu2

(36,667 posts)
10. Yes. Dennis who set up a comfortable chair at the boys' shower room for his viewing pleasure.
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 09:25 PM
Sep 2019

Yes. Dennis who set up a comfortable chair at the boys' shower room for his viewing pleasure.

JPK

(650 posts)
3. Just have some courage Gym
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:21 PM
Sep 2019

Take a deep breath and step out of the closet. His uber masculine imaging looks a little like he's over compensating for something.

SWBTATTReg

(22,077 posts)
5. And he claims to not see this etc.? Obviously not a very good coach (or anything else for that...
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:50 PM
Sep 2019

matter)).

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
6. I was pretty grossed out by this
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:54 PM
Sep 2019

And the students sought his protection.

Just like Joe Paterno, Jim Jordan doesn't get to just turn a blind eye.

SWBTATTReg

(22,077 posts)
7. I agree w/ you. There is a higher level of responsibility to these young kids and he's ignored/
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 01:58 PM
Sep 2019

them/etc. or screwed up royally and doesn't want to admit it. Fortunately these brave kids are standing up and pointing their fingers straight at him...kind of hard to ignore this, eh? I admire the kids tremendously and wish them all the best...Gym J., may he face child endangerment charges (as he should).

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