When did the not showering thing start?

I love bathing. I love showers. I love being naked in water period! Well, most usually. Unless there's fish that eat people in there, then I just wanna get out. With that aside....

Who cares? This last weekend I was out camping with a friend, and I'll be damned if neither of us bathed. My BO offended me, but it didn't bother him and his didn't bother me. It just didn't. It's kinda expected sometimes, I think.

 

I shower every morning or every other in the warmer months, unless I'm at a fest where I cant get a shower. In cooler weather I can handle going 2 or 3 days, but no longer.

I can shower, put on deodorant and still stink enough to smell myself ten minutes later. But, if I DON'T put on deodorant, it takes hours before that happens.

 

I usually wash once a day, but it's such a pain because I have to have baths not showers cos the fuckin builders have taken 9 months so far doing the bathroom so we still don't have a shower, but if I'm out at a friend's or camping or something, not bathing doesn't bother me.

 

The bacteria that naturally forms under our armpits and on various other parts of our body are good bacteria that fight off bad bacteria that is not native to our skin. Sure, people have been bathing since ancient days but they didnt do it everyday. I shower a couple of times a week. I wear deodorant because I dont want to offend people, but personally I think Americans are way too sanitary. Humans are meant to stink. If i'm camping in the woods i'll walk around for days without deodorant and it doesn't offend me or anyone else i'm with, nor does their body odor offend me. It smells natural and pure and it intermingles with the natural scents of nature.

I've heard America is completely void of smells compared to anywhere in Africa. We're entirely too out of touch with our natural body functions if you ask me.

I read an interesting article a couple of years ago about how people living in modern countries such as america engage in oral sex much more than other countries or much more than we did many years ago because we're instinctually looking for that natural scent and we can't find it unless we dive our noses deep in someone's genitals. A human's natural scent is a beautiful thing and I would never wear deodorant if it didn't offend people.

 

Maybe it's because in America we do wash more frequently so when a person does go down town they don't wretch and vomit from a really nasty smelling crotch.
Just a thought.

 

if you think your lover's crotch smells "really nasty" you don't love them enough to be smelling it. sorry.

 

Only when it smells like the fish sandwich I had a few weeks back....

 

Your 16. I doubt you have sampled very many crotches, if any, other than your own.

 

i have smelled my girly's durin oral and it's delicious, thank you I can't imagine not enjoying the smell of someone you love! how can you love them and not their smell?

 

doesn't matter the # of crotches I have smelled this is no science equation simply about the Love you Feel

 

Well, I agree with his take on the smell of lovers' crotches. Do you wish to challenge my age or experience?

 

Depends. If you love her enough you will be attentive to any infections she may have, and there are a few that are notable via body odor.

 

It was a trend in the 60's too.

 

There is a difference in the musky smell of another around their "special places" and the rank odor of piss and secretions from someone who hasn't bathed in weeks.
If you guys prefer that type of odor over the natural musk we produce,(which I also find very enticing) then have at it.
With your years and experience I would think you would have gotten my point and the humor.


(maybe they need to start to distribute a sense of humor on the forums or maybe even an instruction manual so that obvious humor is recognised as such)

 

There are two extremes
Never bathing
And over bathing

Both are bad for you believe it or not. We only have so many layers of skin, we only have so many ammunities.
Then again too much bacteria leaves you suceptible to infection, etc.

Find a good balance
Personally I like when guys kind of smell.
It's alot better then all that axe shit they're spraying themselves down with these days.
Gives me headaches.

 

Yes please no scented products, causes my throat to constrict immediately.

 

I like when women smell like themselves. So often here in the city I walk by a woman and I can still smell her vapor trail 15 feet behind her.

 

The compost of a rotting corpse or a pile of shit should smell worse than a living person, and nattural body odors shouldnt smell like a rotting corpse or a pile of shit,,,sooo yes tthese things are worse,,at least thats what i thoughtt i was saying,,,,people should smell like people and thatt is exactly what i said when i said flower children should smell like flowers,,next time i wont try to be poetic in my choice or words,,,,geeshhh
your a buzz kill

 

Yeah dawg. Balance. why I shower once a week. perfect for me

and for real end colognes deodorants, etc... especially mass produced chemical kind... that shit is horrible... horrible smelling and just... gosh how could you love yourself so little as to think the tv-advertised product smells better than you do?

 

The vagina is a self-cleaning mechanism. It was intended for the billions of humans that came before the modern era of daily showers. If it smells funny its probably because of an infection, not lack of personal hygiene.