Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Be Kicked Out of the Church Nursery?
When I was ten years old, I had a neighborhood paper route.
I also had to collect the monthly dues for the papers, and so had to ring the doorbells of my subscribers homes when the bill was due.
One day I rang the bell of my neighbor’s house and heard the young wife say “Come in!”
So, front door being unlocked, I walked into the living room and heard another invitation, “Come in… I’m in the bathroom.”
So, being ten years old and just trying to collect a meager couple of bucks, I approach the bathroom and pop my head into the room and this woman (probably in her late 20′s) is stark naked in her bath tub, fully exposed and asks me -”How much do we owe you?”
I bolted from the house and resigned from my paperboy job the next day.
Because she was the first voluptuous naked female I ever saw, I’ll never get that image out of my head. (The one I think with…)
And, because she was truly beautiful, she caused me to set my more mature aesthetic standards pretty high.
For which I am eternally grateful.
Did she abuse me?
No.
Exploit me?
Yes.
