# Mrs. Brady had crabs!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443 "2012-01-13T22:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/1 "2012-01-13T22:31:21Z")
Why, God, why did she have to share [this](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2008247/Brady-Bunch-star-Florence-Henderson-reveals-caught-CRABS-having-sex-New-York-mayor-1960s.html)??? Is nothing fucking sacred anymore??? I grew up on the Brady Bunch and this has me reeling. I hope June Cleaver isn’t still alive, cause I don’t want to hear about her tell all book describing her bout with gonorrhea and syphilis. This is the type of thing that should stay between the sheets. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/2 "2012-01-13T22:33:46Z")
Fortunately for you, June Cleaver is, in fact, no longer living. > **[Barbara Billingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Billingsley)** > > Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes; December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010) was an American actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in Three Guys Named Mike (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), and Invaders from Mars (1953), and was featured in the 1957 film The Careless Years opposite Natalie Trundy. She then appeared in recurring TV roles, such as The Brothers. > Billingsley gained prominence for her best-known role of June Cleaver, the mother in the television se... ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/3 "2012-01-13T23:04:41Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Fortunately for you, June Cleaver is, in fact, no longer living. > > [Barbara Billingsley - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Billingsley) \*reads the Wiki \* – GASP – She died of polygamy! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/4 "2012-01-13T23:42:31Z")
[I thought I heard about this before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=614159&highlight=Brady+crabs) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/5 "2012-01-14T02:11:27Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Is nothing fucking sacred anymore??? I guess not, since at the time the incident happened, Florence Henderson was married, and therefore, cheating on her husband. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/6 "2012-01-14T08:42:59Z")
It’s kind of a weird thing to write about at this point in her life and all, but I can forgive her damn near anything because of her role in _Shakes the Clown_. Heck, it even made up for _The Brady Bunch_ as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/7 "2012-01-14T14:19:29Z")
I like how she says Lindsay must have had quite the active sex life for him to have crabs. We could say the same thing for her, right? Yeah, I don’t know why she had to go all TMI like this, unless she was using her experience as a warning against marital infidelity or something. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrs-brady-had-crabs/609443/8 "2012-01-14T14:26:37Z")
It’s entirely just to sell books. It’s the same reason every celebrity who writes a book reveals they were molested or raped or had sex with their father or used to blow drug dealers for coke or got pimped out to Middle Eastern princes or whatever other salacious story you can come up with: an editor told her she’ll sell more books if there’s something scandalous in it, because otherwise, seriously who gives a shit?