When did the not showering thing start?

As bad as I no doubt you smelt, I really can't see how you can sympathize with these billion people. Had you turned to one of them and said

'hey, some guy was talking hell about you and your smell, I totally stood up for you'

i'm sure they would say, in response

'shut the fuck up, the smell is the least of my worries. Go back to your country with your home, clothes, food, water- go bitch about me on your lovely and completely unnecessary computer!!!!'.

 

Not having the opportunity to bathe/shower due too the happenstance of where a person was born and willfully not doing when it when facilities are readily available are two different things completely.
Don't try for a minute to compare the two situations as there is no comparison.
So are you implying that I should feel guilty for making use of what resources are available to me because somebody else in the world is less fortunate? That is just ridiculous.

 

i dont' say anything to them... i drop the £6 that two cans of deoderant a month would cost into a charity tin.... revel in my natural stink.. and enjoy the thought that while smells may upset some delicate souls... at least i'm not so worried about other peoples opinions of me that i'd choose cosmetic perfumes over some other poor souls life

 

In all honesty, I don't wear deodorant. I have suffered with BO in my life.

I can understand where you are coming from, but it really is a tall order when you compare it to the rest of those countries problems. But kudos for caring, nonetheless.

 

no, i'm saying that ridiculing someone because they decide not to shower is both ridiculous and prejudice

your delicate little sense of smell can cope with a lot... the smell of other humans won't kill ya

instead of ridiculing people who don't meet your social standards of hygene... try skipping the twice daily shower for a coupla weeks and donating the money used to heat the water to someone who doesn't have that option....sure, ya neighbours might shun ya... but ya might discover compassion and save someone's life

 

Honestly I go days without showering, I probably haven't taken one in about five days. I take around 1 to 2 a week, and am no less healthier than any of you. My hair looks better after not washing it for days, if i washed it everyday I would have a huge frizzy afro everyday. I don't smell,and only start to smell body odor after many days, and hot weather, in which case i'll then take a shower. I'll also take a shower if I feel dirty or uncomfortable. Showering daily is definitely not important or needed.

 

Your or my personal hygiene practices are irrelevant. I was just pointing out that your comparison was completely invalid.
I do my share of charitable work/activities. I just don't proclaim them and think I'm on some higher moral ground because of it.

 

me neither, i've never personally met anyone who goes thirsty or is in danger of dysentry... i neither look for or expect thanks for charitable donations.. even now they remain annonymous (chapter13 ain't my real name )

a comparison can never be irrelevant if you can have a direct effect on it ....the only difference between you and i is that i dont' let social prejudice stand in the way of compassion

 

Boy, thats a pretty big assumption about me based on nothing.

not to mention the fact that this thread was meant as humor, or at least I believe that was the intention of the OP.
Everything doesn't have to be a springboard for social commentary.

 

considering you tried to tell me "Don't try for a minute" to make a comparison on something which i already had, decided i could effect, and said how i acted on to make the effect... i think it's a very fair assumption... you see no comparison, i do. of course, if you have a medical condition that means you have to shower everyday, i'll apologise and retract that assumption but as you said -

i'll have to stick to my assumptions as any clarification isn't going to be forthcoming

listen... can you hear the chuckling of homeless people?

no? me neither

oh i do apologise, i thought this was a forum where people could speak on many issues... i'll just go sit at the back and keep quiet

 

Funny, as when I was homeless I never had a problem with bathing. Amazing what you can do with a quart of water and a hand rag....

 

Well I finally got my first neg rep for this thread. So to Natural Philosophy what makes me gross. Is it the fact that I don't use deoderant or antipersperant? The fact that deoderant doesn't work on me? The fact that the last time I tried antipersperant it felt like I was trying to carry baseballs under my arms? The fact that I don't want to go out with wet hair when it's 30 below zero out. The fact that eating helathy, getting to work on time, not getting hit by cars, making sure that my clients get what they need done, helping others, getting enough sleep, wearing clean clothes, and washing my whole body down including my hair twice almost every day in the shower are more important than how I smell. I am probably cleaner than you are I just have uncontrollable body odor and would rather spend money on eating and sleeping indoors than deoderant.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

I was wondering how I could've missed this long thread but it was only started yesterday.

As I have posted in other threads, underarm odor is the way humans are supposed to smell. Saying that smell is bad is an acculturation, as proven by the French.

The smell of armpits is actually (for those of us who rebelled agains the social lies in which we were raised) an alluring sexual signal and I go into a sniffing, licking frenzy when I get around them. Even wrote about it:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=135122

And, I don't know what Duck had in mind by starting this thread but I agree with Chapter 13 and Reverend JC about just accepting the natural odor of ourselves and others.

BTW, underarm odor hasn't much to do with bathing or cleanliness. It has to do with suppressing it with deodorants. You can be quite clean and still have pit odor - as nature went to great length to produce.

And this is an example of acculturation against nature. Having your nose make contact with a rotting corpse or pile of shit is probably considered by most ppl as "worse" than contact with the smell of body odor.

People, even "flower children" should smell like people, not flowers. Or at least that's how many of us rebels from the '60s saw it.

 

The fun part is that underarm BO is caused by the waste product of bacteria. That is why it takes some time to produce an odor after a shower. It takes a little while for the bacteria to produce enough waste to become noticable. Our sweat actually has little if any odor.
Now crotch odor is a little different and has elements of odor to it that is produced by our bodies, much like musk. That is a sexual scent designed to entice the opposite sex, or in Shale's case the same sex .

 

^ totally agreed. I love the smell of body odor to be honest. Especially my girlfang's. super sexy. Smells like her! and nothing else does... especially not the factory or chemicals... no, those come not even close to the beauty of her stank... as for me, people have never complained about me smellin really, and I only shower once a week. never wear deodorant.

 

........


Cheers Glen.

 

I don't know when the "not showering thing" started, but for me its always been that way. I've gone a couple weeks in between showers for as long as I can remember. Personally, I feel that is perfect for me, I don't smell, I don't get sick.

"Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum,
What might be right for you, may not be right for some."

 

..........



Cheers Glen.

 

Dude also realise that one of the oldest ways of diagnosing illness is smell. 70% of the toxins that we put into our body come out of our sweat glands. Think about that the next time somebody comes up to you reeking of cheep booze. People douse themselves with deoderant, cologne, and aftershave to hide the fact that they are unhealthy. Nice huh! Thinkabout that theat beautiful French Perfume you love was designed to cover for the fact one of your body parts was about to drop off from Lepracy or that you had third stage Syphlis. But at least you don't stink.

Peace Out,
Rev J

 

It started for me about the age of 0, but then as I grew older I enjoyed showers..