Shared-Showers Advocacy

Whenever I pass by our old house and see the floral curtains, now stained and mildewed, flapping softly against the breeze, I am reminded of how young and trusting I was before. Without any further questions, I believed the reason why my cousin and his wife showered together during their weeklong sojourn at our place was because they were such environmentalists; they halved the water usage by taking a single bath instead of two and that they were making odd guttural sounds because they were working hard at cleaning our bathroom at the same time! It was such a simple but brilliant idea to my 10 y/o self that I actually spent the next few days advocating for “shared showers” within the family and started pairing people off to share baths: Mom and dad, then me and my younger sister. I never really understood why my parents laughed it off and told me to keep the idea to myself until well…years later when I was exposed to the idea of sex and finally realized what my cousin and his wife really did inside the bathroom.