I didn't have any brothers and sisters until my father remarried when I was in junior high school and then it was an instant family. (I never asked, and don't intend to.) My youngest brother is/was even more gymnophobic than I was.įor those who had siblings (male or female) during the communal showering era, did you ever have to shower with them? Was it at all awkward for either or both of you? Did you get used to it? Did you talk about or comment on it? Or was it sort of stoicly ignored? Or was it never mentioned because it was 'no big deal'? I wonder if they had to shower together and if it was awkward for them. I assume they showered back then, but I don't know if the shift towad 'optionality' had happened. My two younger brothers were both in cross country for 2 years together in HS when I was a year out it. Beyond a certain age, 7, 8 at the oldest, I never saw my middle brother naked, though I did my youngest, as described in an earlier post here, without the least bit of embarrassment, when I was about 13 or 14, he about 9 or 10. high.) I wonder what it would've been like if we'd had to shower together. (Different grade levels would often use the locker room at the same period, having PE in different areas.
He was a sophomore, I was a senior, and I'm sure we both had PE during those years.
When you showered communally in school, over the years, it was only with a relatively small part of the whole male student body.
