> As another comment added, 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

> As another comment added, 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?". There is so much of our culture ingrained in this sentence that any conclusions we draw from it risk being warped. I don't know what's really going on but I put forward this theory: 1. We are probably supposed to put ourselves in positions where someone else can smell us. It's very, very, common in the animal kingdom. 2. Given 1 your body is probably not asking for a rinse. The message that your body is trying to convey might not be intended for you all. 3. Humans are intelligent enough to realize this and have the capability to alter the way they smell. This has led to an elaborate competition for social status based upon artificial fragrances. 4. Humans are intelligent enough to realize even this so from there it might very well be the case that your body is asking you for a rinse. But it's all meta at this point. ;-)