My father cheerfully talks to me when I’m wearing only my underwear (bra). I sleep in the same room as my father because our house is small. He walks around in just his underwear and casually puts his fingers inside it even when I’m there.

I’m Meg, a female member. No matter how cramped his place is, that’s still crossing the line. First, don’t strip down to your underwear in front of your papa (a male supporter). If changing is difficult, can’t you go to the bathroom or shower room? Next, look him in the eye and clearly tell him that you don’t want him doing things like that in front of you. Finally, if you’re an adult woman, it’s time to move out.

I’m Flagmaker, a columnist. Isn’t that just what home is like? I sit naked in front of the fan in the living room, and my wife walks around naked too. I often sleep completely naked without even putting on underwear. Maybe it’s only acceptable because our daughter is still young.

Maezawa from the president’s office will weigh in as well. Even at 25, Ayame Goriki apparently still sometimes takes baths with her father—not frequently, though. Ryoko Shinohara and Marina Sekine reportedly continued bathing with their fathers until they were in their first year of junior high school, and even now, at 32, Airi Taira apparently still washes her father’s hair. In Japan, bathing together in the nude used to be perfectly normal. I’ve heard that men and women even bathed together until Western culture—Christianity, perhaps—was introduced. In other words, it’s sad to think that, as a result of forcing Western customs onto Japan, we ended up with a culture where it’s considered acceptable to detest one’s father. Of course, there are some strange people, but taking one isolated example and applying it to everyone is just odd. It’s disappointing to see people write as though it’s somehow wrong for family members to share a room or sleep in the same room while the father is wearing only his underwear.

I took baths with my father until I was in third grade. After that, I changed clothes in my own room, and my father never walked around in just his underwear either. The questioner’s situation doesn’t seem very typical to me, though. I wonder what’s going on. It’s strange that, despite growing up in that kind of environment, older men don’t seem to be your type romantically. Marika