This is the defense of Sandusky? We all did it?

[Are_grits_groceries]

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When asked by prosecutor Joseph McGettigan III if he’d seen Sandusky showering with boys, Anderson answered, “Yes. I have also.”

McGettigan seemed surprised by the response and asked Anderson a flurry of follow-ups.

“Eleven-year-olds?” McGettigan said.

Yes, Anderson said.

“That you didn’t know?’

“Yes.”

He said, “I do it all the time,” and added, “There are regularly young boys at the YMCA showering at the same time that there are older people showering.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/jerry-sandusky-trial-old-friends-say-showers-with-boys-routine-harmless/2012/06/18/gJQA9P1blV_story.html?hpid=z2

Something is seriously wrong in that valley.
One man said he showered with his granddaughter.

[NeverEnuff]

1. Common?

I don't know how common it is in other places but at a YMCA I used to go to in the Milwaukee area it was common for boys to shower with male adults. I even saw one guy bring his 3 year old daughter in the shower. It sure made me uncomfortable.

[tularetom]

2. When I was a little kid (maybe 5 or 6) we had a bathtub but no water heater

So they'd push all three of us (2 boys, one girl) into the tub and fill it with a bucket of water that they heated on the stove. This probably went on for about 2 years until my sister got to be about 9 or 10 and I guess our mom decided it was time to stop doing it. Shortly afterward we moved to a place that had hot water.

So I'm not appalled by the idea of communal bathing. But adults showering with kids still trips my creepy alarm.