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While I do mostly agree with you, and think that there's generally no need to bathe on mostly-sedentary days in a mild climate, there is certainly an actual ans
by magneticnorth 6y ago
While I do mostly agree with you, and think that there's generally no need to bathe on mostly-sedentary days in a mild climate, there is certainly an actual answer to your maybe-hypothetical question: "... I will never put my self in a position where anyone can smell my body odour but why shower so frequently if your body isn't telling you, "it's a bit dirty over here, I could do with a rinse?".
I can certainly attest that I've known lots of people who seem to be unaware that anyone can smell their body odour, and presumably can't smell it themselves. The keenness of the sense of smell seems to vary a lot more among people than other senses (except perhaps sight, but we use technology to normalize that).
So having known many people who are unaware that they smell, I certainly worry the same could be true of me - I have a decent sense of smell, but probably there are many people who would notice my body odor before I did.
- LilBytes 6y agoThe thing is with smell is, it's basically a highly complex, involved diff tool. If you're surrounded by the same smells constantly, you won't pick up the smells. The body odour you express becomes the status quo. For me to be able to smell my own body odour, they'd have to be a point in time where I didn't have body odour. And if my BO is so wretched I don't need to put my nose into my arm pit to smell it (I challenge anyone to disagree with me that they don't do an arm pit sniff test to gauge their cleanliness) well, throw me into a fucking lake. Of course, some people may have more delicate smells than most. Or not at all. I don't know where I sit. But I've got a 100% success rate in never being told 'my dude, you smell like an over ripe peach', so I think I'm doing OK. Or my friends are part of a dasteredly ruse to forever keep me single.
- maskedoffender 6y agoI don't sniff my armpits because they've never smelled in my life. I have a genetic defect where I don't produce apocrine sweat (the kind that causes bacteria to produce odor) but still maintain the eccrine sweat that cools me down. This trait is associated with dry earwax. I've worn a shirt for a week straight and had a relative with a sensitive nose smell it and another shirt that had not been worn a day. They incorrectly guessed which shirt I had worn and which one I hadn't.
- LilBytes 6y agoThat's really interesting, thanks for sharing.
- FindMySocks 6y agoPrince Andrew? Is that you?
- LilBytes 6y agoI don't understand the reference?
- notadog 6y agoPrince Andrew once used his 'inability to sweat' to refute Epstein allegations. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-sweat-allegations-pizza-expresss-a9208496.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prince-andrew-jef...)
- nradov 6y agoPeople really shouldn't have more than one sedentary day per week. It's quite dangerous for long term health.
- curryst 6y agoSedentary is relative. If it's nice out, I could spend hours outside working on my plants, and really only need to wash off my arms at the end. I'm up and moving, but it's not enough to make me sweaty and gross. I would still refer to it as sedentary, because I didn't leave the house, and didn't engage in rigorous physical exercise, but it's not like I sat on the couch and ate chips all day.