Bathing with siblings

I am an only child, but I have always been curious about what it was like to bathe in childhood for those who had siblings. At what age did you bathe together with the dissent? When did you start to feel ashamed of your siblings?

When I was in elementary school, I liked to hear the stories of my friends who had siblings about it. Many of my friends had younger sisters. Usually the age difference was about 2-4 years. Usually, up to a certain age, brother and sister were bathed together. They were then bathed separately, but the younger sister was allowed to enter the bathroom while her brother was bathing. Usually, her brother also saw her in the bath, but it ended when the girls started to mature (around 11-12 years of age).

However, in the houses where the older sister was, it was different. The younger brother was not allowed to enter the bathroom while his sister was bathing when she was 8-9 years old. My friend (girl) said that her younger brother did not see her in the bath, but she was present at his bath.

Our children GBG were happy to use our double shower unit together until the elder girl was about 13 when the boy was 11 and his younger sister 9. There were no problems as my husband and I would also share in this arrangement. Getting 5 people washed in a short length of time was made far easier after our our old bath tub was taken out and our new wonderful double shower unit was installed. (6 shower heads altogether)

I never bathed with MY siblings. Likely because they were female and at least 9 years older than me. If fact, I don't think I ever saw them naked (except for the most fleeting of glimpses).

I did bathe with cousins of both sexes up to about age 7. Bathing with my boys cousins continued through the teen years, but switched to showering when we wouldn't fit in the same tub.

With friends (sleepovers, etc) same sex bathing varied. Some boys looked forward to shared bathing/showering. Others were too shy to share a bath/shower (and sometimes also wanted privacy to change clothes). I usually just went along with whichever way the host/guest preferred.

Never shared a bath as an adult with my brother or anyone since we're 5 years aparte from each other. When it came to cousin and friends. I've shared baths/showers multiple times. First time was with my girl cousins…we were 8 and 5. All I remember was I was already in the bathtub when mom came in with my cousin stripped her down told me to move over and placed her in the tub right next to me and was told to help “her wash up”. First time with a boy cousin we were 10 and 9. We had to go somewheres and to save time and water we were made to wash together.. with a friend I was 7 he was 3…the neighbors kid…as with my girl cousin..they placed him in the tub with me and I was told the same thing as with my cousin “help him wash up”.

I'm an only child, but do remember having a bath with a friend who was a boy as well during a sleep over. I was young, I was under 10 years old at the time. That was the only time for me.

For some families, bathing together is very natural, not so much for others. Our family enjoyed being nudists, so we were very comfortable seeing each other without clothing. A natural offshoot of nudism is being nude at home, and seeing each other bathing is a normal part of that. As we got older my sister and I stopped bathing together except for the occasional shower. Also, all of our pool time was nude.

Apart from when very young the only time I would share a bath with my 2 yrs younger brother would be when we had extended family staying over. Like most UK homes at the time we only had one bath tub and the shower was just a hand held attachment really only useful for washing your hair, so it was necessary to kids to double-up sometimes to get everybody done. Last time for us would have been when I was about 13.

I don't recall my older sister ever having to share with a girl relative though and it was fairly normal for people to wander into the bathroom to brush teeth, get a towel or something from the bathroom cabinet while either of us boys were bathing. We boys were definitely not ever allowed in while Karen washing though.

My brother was 5 yrs older and my sister 10 years older so I don't ever bathing with either but I did with my cousins. My aunt and uncle lived on a farm (1950's) and I used to stay their sometimes. I can remember my aunt putting a tin bath in front of the fire and bathing me in that. I got the first bath as a guest then my male cousin about the same age and after that my female cousin who was about 1 year younger. Our ages 6 to about 5 all undressed and bathed by my aunt in view of the others.

I have a brother 3 years younger than me that I probably bathed with regularly when we were little, I just do not remember. But I do recall the last time we bathed together, I was a senior in high school and he was in 8th grade (he was held back one year) and we were running late to school; I had first period off so drove him into school. I am not sure where our parents were but they were not home. I showered first and as I was getting out of the shower he was naked and coming in. We both saw each other naked for the first time in years and that was the last time, now easily 15 years ago, was the last time we both saw each other naked.

My two sisters and I bathed together up until age 6(?). We had a lot of fun in the tub - paddling water to even out the temp, splashing each other etc. Nothing sexual. Except my one sister a year older than me, showed me she could blow bubbles out her butt!

@cousinnapoli Bathing naked with other boys is one occasion where some men discover circumcised vs uncircumcised. Was it the case for you?

I have vague memories of being bathed with my elder brother when young and I also recall being bathed with a neighbour's boy before going to the cinema one afternoon. I can remember the film , the year was 1970 , so I was 6 or 7. When drying off he made a comment about myself have a rolled back penis , he was uncut and clearly knew the difference.

I took baths with my sister, and with two of the neighbor girls. All two years older than me.

@Pecan_nutjob my brother and I are both circumcised. The very few times I showered or changed growing up with other guys they were as well. In fact, the only time I have seen an uncircumcised penis has been in Germany; cant recall how many but saw a few at various saunas. My girlfriend had not seen an uncircumcised penis until then either and it was a surprise for her.

I bathed with my younger brother when we were both small. I would also bathe with my (female) cousins when they were around or if I was visiting. One was my age and the other five years older. When we bathed, the tub was too small to fit all of us so we would be in there two at a time. It started out as just my younger cousin and I being bathed together by my aunt or older cousin. When I was 8, my aunt stopped helping us bathe but my older cousin would sometimes join me in the tub. However after that, we mainly used the shower it was big enough to fit all three of us so we would occasionally do that, even if it is kind of inconvenient. We have also bathed at a sauna and showered after swimming together.