Schoolboys banned from pool changeroom because adult male swimmers feared they would be falsely labelled paedophiles. "One stated that he had an untrue allegation made against him several years ago in a similar environment."

huntwhales · 2010-10-21T16:09:43+00:00

This does not surprise me. Yesterday I went to use the bathroom at a restaurant and there were two little boys in there by themselves who were between 3-5 years old (one older than the other) while their mother waited outside. They were both standing there with their pants down sharing the urinal or playing around or something (I was only there for a second). I turned right around and went back to my table for fear of being labeled as a pedo or something because their mom saw me with them or mistook something they told her afterwards.

So even though there was a couple of perfectly good urinals and stalls I could've used, I opted just to leave for the same fear that the men in this article have.

qataridestroyer · 2010-10-21T18:52:39+00:00

i remember my brother was bored and decided to play some of those games where you get stuffed toys out. he was really bored, but also very successful. i didn't want them and my brother decided to hand out the toys to the little kids whom were eyeing the plushies for a while. moments later you get a security guard coming towards my brother and asking him to move out of the premise. my brother refused and insisted in knowing why. and then the guard told my brother he was convicted of molesting kids and luring them with plushie toys. the good thing was that the security guard knows the clame is false, stated "you're an adult male, having you around kids just freaks parents out. they don't care if you're here with family or not"

people love making up shit. and i bet a place like a swimming pool gets a lot of bullshit molesting charges daily. you can simply be playing with your child and be convicted of molestation

kanuk876 · 2010-10-21T15:43:33+00:00

I expect we'll see a lot more of this before it gets better.

At this rate, the day may come when the first adult male most boys meet is in the mirror.

KoNP · 2010-10-21T20:14:58+00:00

I feel sorry of the kids who cant use the pool changing room but i understand the point of view of the adult patrons. Society has a real sexual phobia developing.

daemin · 2010-10-21T20:27:16+00:00

Ok so something I've always wondered about is, why, in male changing rooms, is there no privacy? They are always just a giant fucking room with some benches. I get more privacy taken a piss where i just have to unzip my pants than I do in a changing room. Is it to make penis size comparisons easier and mandatory or what?

2010-10-21T22:30:29+00:00

this is a total turn around from what we normally see, where the adults are banned due to fear, this just goes to show how far these accusations have gone

AnnArchist · 2010-10-21T16:53:50+00:00

I'm ok with that. Protect the adults first. Then let the adults protect the kids.

I bet a swim mom gets the adults kicked from the locker room.

2010-10-21T20:52:53+00:00

This is honestly the reason I don't have a membership at the YMCA

justdoasisay · 2010-10-22T02:03:08+00:00

When I was little the big boys and girls scared me, now that I'm big the little girls and boys scare me. Will it never end?

hexley · 2010-10-22T04:32:00+00:00

When I was young, I saw my dad's penis for the first time in the local pool change room. Surrounded by other naked men I yelled "Hey dad, nice penis!". The room went dead silent. Son, am disappoint.

neofool · 2010-10-21T18:45:04+00:00

This is so absurd. Protecting adults from children would be funny if it wasn't necessary in the modern day.

One caveat, Australia has been going in a very, very bad direction lately so I don't think it's fair to assume crazy policies like this are going to come to the rest of first world.

sempire · 2010-10-21T18:14:40+00:00

Welcome to 2010..

stemgang · 2010-10-22T00:08:01+00:00

This is an appropriate and natural reaction.

Parents' over-protectiveness puts everyone around their children at risk of false accusations.

As a result, these children must not be allowed to be around any unrelated adults without at least 2 chaperones present.

If their parents wish to see their children protected, they will have to provide and pay for the protection themselves.

Otherwise, their children are not welcome anywhere that they may cause discomfort and create risk of false accusations.

coldacid · 2010-10-21T22:54:01+00:00

Its about time for coed locker rooms. The locker room should be a place where everyone goes in, does their business, and gets out. In places like Germany, there is only one locker room for swimming pools. People go in, get changed, and leave. No one trolls the locker room.

throwthis2 · 2010-10-21T21:34:50+00:00

"Hey Joey, ever seen a grown man naked?" Name the movie...

Team_Colbert · 2010-10-21T19:15:40+00:00

The pools are going to lose most of their Catholic priest clients...

EatSleepJeep · 2010-10-22T00:40:01+00:00

Gimme back my career!

jbgatsby · 2010-10-22T01:22:01+00:00

Pool's closed.

YumYumKittyloaf · 2010-10-21T17:20:45+00:00

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