I agree, though the notion of showering every day is a reasonably modern American innovation (that has, thankfully, spread further afield). As a kid in 80s Britain, my parents and I all had our baths on Sunday, and that was that. When I reached my teens, of course, I decided to become a little more regular!
All that said, people clearly have different washing demands. Manual workers, people who sweat a lot, and people, like the GP poster, who clearly smelt to third parties. There are folks, though, who can go a while between washing without becoming pongy though, in my experience.
I use to shower everyday. However, when I was on a vacation in Mongolia we jumped into a lake, say, once a week. Strangely, we did not smell. (And I did not smell the other guys, even when I just had a bath in the lake.) On the other hand, this was around 2700m above sea level.
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I agree, though the notion of showering every day is a reasonably modern American innovation (that has, thankfully, spread further afield). As a kid in 80s Britain, my parents and I all had our baths on Sunday, and that was that. When I reached my teens, of course, I decided to become a little more regular!
All that said, people clearly have different washing demands. Manual workers, people who sweat a lot, and people, like the GP poster, who clearly smelt to third parties. There are folks, though, who can go a while between washing without becoming pongy though, in my experience.
I use to shower everyday. However, when I was on a vacation in Mongolia we jumped into a lake, say, once a week. Strangely, we did not smell. (And I did not smell the other guys, even when I just had a bath in the lake.) On the other hand, this was around 2700m above sea level.