Bull squeeze unless he grew up in a convent! No adult can be this naive.
Just note. His wife, Sue Paterno (from the WashPo interview article): I had no clue, she said. I thought doctors looked for child abuse in a hospital, in a bruise or something.
I had Aunts who were born around 1900 who in their 80s didn’t even know there was such a thing as homosexuals. They grew up in New York but society was very different then and ladies (and they were proper ladies) were protected from such nastiness. Most nice families didn’t even say “darn.”