What a story, @itsjustme. No privacy for embarrassed little boys, dominated by older sisters. Nudity, giggling and condescending comments, foreskin manipulation... But most of all the unintentional (or intentional?) tickle-torture of the exposed glans until you lost control and peed, proving further, how little you were (to shower on your own).
Did they thoroughly clean the inside of your little poop hole too? Did your older sister's friends watching the show giggled and commented when/if she did that? Did they smile watching her wash your boy bits? Did your mom and sister use bare hands to wash your bum and between the legs? How badly it tickled, when they handled your balls? Did they deliberately tease you with tickle? Did the audience made fun of your squirming and shaking? Shoot me a PM, if you don't want to discuss (re-live) it in depth here.
The other stories are great too. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
I was washed by my mom up until eight, as I remember. Sometimes a guest or relative would enter the bathroom, acting like it wasn't a big deal. Not often though. I started getting shy around six, right before I went to school, which started at seven at that time in my home country. It wasn't a full-on shame. More of a subtle feeling, that something wasn't right and I was too old to be bathed like a toddler. Still reluctantly allowed my mom to do it.
There were kinkier customs in the good old USSR and post-Soviet Russia, largely free of today's child abuse hysteria, at least during my childhood. Sure, if the parents want to avoid "traumatizing" the kid, they should teach him to wipe his butt and shower on his own at the age of 5, 6-12 months before (not sure about girls) boys start to feel embarrassed about nudity. Which also depends on the country, e.g. wouldn't be the case in Germany or Scandinavia. It was in Russia, and as I learned today, in France and Romania too.
There is worse abuse, than embarrassing a 9y.o. by bathing him in front of the guests. Many here fantasize about incest, which is not a gray area at all. I'm not judging or advocating anything in real life. Let's just relive our (painfully) sweet memories. Spanking is much darker "gray area" than those bath stories, but we talk a lot about it here, including the mind-blowing thread about the parents, aunts, babysitters, and other adults clearly enjoying it.
The subtlety of the bath beyond preschool age makes it a lot kinkier, than straightforward corporal, and even diaper punishment. What would the kid complain about? Being thoroughly cared for like a baby. Sure, today he can pick up his very own mobile phone and call the special hotline. But not long time ago hygienic care like that was well within customary no matter how belittling and offensive it felt. You were clearly violated, but couldn't complain at all, e.g. listening to your mom thanking the mean babysitter for thoroughly bathing you at the age of eight.
Did moms, big sisters, and teenage babysitters enjoy sweetly humiliating a visibly embarrassed 6-10y.o. boy? Did they generously shared the joy of adoring little one's naked body with their female relatives, friends, and sometimes random guests? They couldn't rob the others of the "Aww" moments of admiring that sweet toddler-like body: hairless, with a slightly round tummy and slightly arched back, attenuating a cute round bum, could they? Who wouldn't like watching the funny and innocent kiddie action like bathing and potty sitting? Especially the teenage girls, getting a chance to watch and even play with the live (male) doll, to satisfy their curiosity about boy's private parts... eagerly learning the baby care as a future mother, and enjoying the feeling of superiority over a younger boy - the rare age window, when women can truly non-consensually dominate men in our still very manly world.
Back to Soviet children's hygiene. As you might expect, the old communist regime had very rigid age brackets - largely remained after the official collapse of the Soviet Union. Kids used to start a 10-year school at 7, then it became an 11-year school started at 6, and as far, as I know (being out of the country for so long), it's 6.5 or 7 again for the same 11-year school. The difference between the 10 and 11-year schools is the elementary one: 3 years (7-10) or 4 years (6-10). Either way, the middle school starts at 10. 6 used to be the last year of "pre-school", and then became the first ("kindergarten" by Western standards) year of the normal school.
Before 6 all kids are publicly pottied and bathed without any regard for privacy. 6 is the transitional period, when the kid is expected to learn how to wipe his butt after #2, as no one would help him with that at school. Though I wish high school girls were assigned that duty: to check and wipe first- and second-graders with baby wipes. Sorry, got carried away.
As far, as public pottying, many 6y.olds still use chamber pot or more modern plastic potties, especially in the country, where many still have outhouses only even today. In any case 7 is the official big boy (girl) age. No more potty business in front of everyone and calling the mom or older sister to wipe your bum.
As for baths, everyone was very embarrassed after 7, since he/she officially became a big boy/girl. Still, it typically took a year in normal (i.e. not the kindergarten with its after-lunch nap) school to muster the courage to ask for normal adult showering. Many, including myself, protested the baths, and were allowed to shower, like adults at the age of 8 - first under the parent's supervision, and then completely on their own. Others were too infantile/timid, or the parents (typically moms, since parenting is the woman's duty over there) simply refused, so baths continued until the middle-school age: 10.
To recap, it's 0-3 (diapers: baby care), 4-6 (potty-trained: preschool), 7-9 (still bathed: elementary school), 10-15 ("teenage" middle school) and 16-17 (young adult high school). There was a huge step up from a 9y.o. kid to a 10y.o. "almost teen" trusted not only with showering by him/herself, but also babysitting (meaning bathing) kids under 10 years of age. Shouldn't that line have been drawn at 13 - the true teen age? Physiologically, but not behaviorally. It's hard to treat a 12y.o. as a pre-schooler. Sorry for ruining your incest fantasies, most moms are not into that action. The Aww-inducing innocence starts to fade at 10. In any case, now, that you know the official brackets, let's get to the action.
There was a system of summer camps, designed to help city parents during the three summer break months. Many lived with grandparents, and babysitting wasn't such a big problem for the out of school kids. It was mostly the fresh air outside the city, outdoor fun, sports, socializing, and other usual parents' BS. You can tell how I felt about such "socializing" and "sports". The food sucked too. Though I was lucky to only attend those camps twice: at the age of 11 and 12.
The system was somewhat similar to American boy/girl-scouts uniform-wise, but it was coed and divided by age. The camps accepted elementary and middle school kids: 6-15, placed into "squads" of 20-30 kids of the same age. Every squad had two adult supervisors: almost always college girls, as that was a minimum-wage summer job, considered "unmanly" and reserved for women like many other professions, e.g. nurses and pediatrician.
You know where I am going with that. Who washed elementary school aged boys, since they were officially deemed unable to clean themselves properly? I was wondering that too during our weekly bath days, though only heard rumors. And no, contrary to the Internet stories, the adults supervisors (of the opposite sex) didn't watch us in the shower room at the age of 11 and 12.
It gets better. A single 19-21 y.o. squad supervisor couldn't possibly wash 10-15 of her boys within 30 minutes typically allowed for her squad, before the next one came into the shower room. The other supervisor was in the girls' shower room. Those rooms typically had 4-6 shower stalls without doors. Some squad supervisors formed teams and washed all of the younger squads together. I can only imagine how humiliating it was - being washed by a pretty 19y.old, I didn't even know a week before, and had a secret crush on. Should have scarred me for life if it really happened, though I can't stop fantasizing about "what ifs" now, like most of you.
There was another, more common arrangement. At first I didn't believe the rumors, but thanks to the Internet, some pretty consistent and convincing stories came out. I remember at least three Russian forums with those childhood memories. The squad supervisor girls were less than enthusiastic about washing half of the squad (boys of girls) every week, so they asked the two (or three) oldest squads: 14-15y.olds to help them. The stories claim they asked both boys and girls, though, in a typical double standard fashion no one asked older boys to wash little girls, though it was OK for 14-15y.o. girls to wash boys. Older boys didn't agree anyway (I wouldn't - it's not manly, and the homophobia was strong at the time, if I were gay). One way or another it's always been girls, and they loved the "bath duty".
Everyone under the age of 10 was to be thoroughly washed by an "adult". Many, like me, already showered at home on their own since 7-8, but there were no exceptions, so no one would feel offended. Both the squad supervisors and their 14y.o. helpers enjoyed forcing the shyest and most stubborn boys to strip naked and allow touching them everywhere. It was like a conveyor. One girl lathered up the kid, another rinsed him, and the next one was waiting with a towel. The camp nurse typically visited the shower room in the beginning to show the girls how to properly wash a boy, paying particular attention to the privates.
The boys were sternly told to obey every 14y.old's word, do, what they are told, and never cover themselves. You can imagine the condescending supervisor lectures about "what's the big deal?", "adults in charge", "plenty of experience with little brothers and nephews", "future moms needing to practice caring about little ones", "too young to be shy", and last but not least, pointing out yellow stains and skid marks on the underwear proving better than anything, that kids, especially boys, cannot even wipe their butts properly at that age, let alone shower, like adults.
The few girls who posted in those forums, admitted, they enjoyed bossing embarrassed naked boys around and loved admiring their cute bodies, rather funny and pathetic, than sexual. "Shouldn't hide that tiny thing", "just cute and funny", "little boys are so adorable when they blush", and similar remarks. They typically used a rug to wash the boy, except for the butt and privates, where they were specifically instructed by the nurse to be gentle doing it with a bare hand.
One said, she would have used her fingers anyway, as it was fun. Most boys subconsciously tried to move away, once the girl got a hold of their privates, so the girl often slapped the naked butt with a stern command to stand still, and proceeded to lather up the boy's ball sack watching him squirm from tickle. Some liked to tease the boy about it. I can point you to those forums if you speak/read Russian (shoot me a PM), but everything will be lost in translation if you use Google.
There are no recollections of washing under the foreskin, though I am sure those attempts took place simply out of curiosity. There are a few orgasm stories I take with a grain of salt. Erections probably weren't uncommon among the stressed out kids. I don't believe they happened from seeing those 14-15y.olds in swimsuits. There was water and soap everywhere and the girls had to take a shower in turn after washing the last squad. Did they laugh at pathetic boners and commented on every boy's development? Probably. Did some put a finger up the boy's little hole when the squad supervisor wasn't looking or looked the other way? Did they intentionally tickled the boy's most sensitive spots: the balls and the exposed glans to make him pee and then laugh and punish him for that? I'm sure all of that took place, though no one would openly admit it in any of those forums.
The forum threads typically turned to bickering between the guys recalling those humiliating memories and some poor girl who came there defend herself saying it wasn't a big deal and everything was funny and not arousing at all. Anyway, that's all I've read there.
The old Soviet Union never had third-world slums and outside showers - not in big cities. But it used to have poorer second-world housing standards e.g. dorm-style "communal flats": several (sometimes 10 or more) private rooms with a shared bathroom and kitchen. The bathroom was always occupied and typically reserved for adults, with all kids under the age of seven and often older, elementary school ones bathed in large basins or infant bathtubs on one of the kitchen tables, while other flat residents (moms and their daughters as it was (and is) the "women belong to the kitchen" world) cooked something or did laundry, chatting with the mom or older sister washing her little one.
Then there was still incomprehensible for me central heating infrastructure with the heat (hot water) distributed underground to tens of city blocks. The pipe system was extremely fragile and required annual maintenance, performed in the summer for a month or so: the pipes dug up and replaced, etc. Obviously the hot water was turned off for those tens of blocks connected to one power plant.
Since no one turned off the hot water in the entire city at once, people typically went to their friends or relatives in another part of the city. Imagine an 8y.o. boy allowed to shower on his on and unaware of the ancient "communal flats" - discovering his mom is took him to one of those, and the bathroom was either occupied or broken/clogged, so he'd be washed in the kitchen in front of complete strangers; who'd surely comment on his development, ask his mom if his foreskin fully retracts, and give her other pointers how to properly wash little boys down there.
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