I went on a church trip a few weekends ago. We stayed in a hotel. It was three of us and one adult. Me and one of my friends shared a bed, and then the adult and the other guy shared a bed.
I have a post on first page, so I won't repeat that information. I am assuming you are 18. Today on youth trips, most churches now require both guys to be age 18 or both guys be 17 or younger. According to the law in some states, a 17 year old or his parents can sue an 18 or over and might get some money out of it or at least a serious investigation.
I see absolutely nothing morally wrong with an adult sharing a bed with a minor when the man is a mentor, scout leader, youth director etc. That is no different than sleeping with a father as long as both don't object or feel uncomfortable.
However, it is not wise at all legally. The reason is what several of you have written. Non sexual spoooning does happen. Everyone here has agreed so far that there is nothing wrong with it. But, if a 14 year old guy had written the very same post that several of you have written and just said that you were 14 at the time or he was 14 at the time and the other one was 28 or over, all hell would have broken loose on the forum.
Yet, it is risky to let four minors be alone and who knows what mischief that might get into during the night without an adult present. So, in a hotel, if there is only one adult, he must sleep on a bed by himself or in a cot or on the floor and the teens figure out sleeping arrangements accordingly.
This forum is about 18-25 guys today not 25 years ago. But you young guys might find it interesting or weird that many churches had a policy a counselor always shared a bed with one of the teens and two teens slept in the other bed. And that at least one adult had to sleep in every room unless there were adjoining rooms and then the doors separating the rooms had to be open at all times.
I never had a problem becuase I let the guys work out the sleeping arrangements in the room I was assigned in.
Now, a few churches have a rule that there has to be two adults in a room and there must be at lest two minors in the room.
I do agree with the second rule in general as most teens want to be with guys their age and not stuck with being the only one their age with an adult. And that is just two awkward unless the adult is a very important person in the life of the minor.
If you are 24 or 25 and you share a bed with a 17 year old that is still in high school on a trip, and that 17 year old says you did something...your ass is cooked if you are dealing with the wrong set of parents.
While none of you guys are 17 and under, this information might be interesting to you and certainly the part that your age forgets. In the eyes of the law, you are an adult just as much as I am at age 56.
And for those minors who aren't members but read this section anyway, you certainly might be interested in reading it.