No its not true, there where products masking bodily smells thousands of years. Idk what you are talking about. But i have to say, if you show up unshowered and without deodorant ata fucking con and im near you i will puke all over you.
Yeah, they ignore that frigging Egyptians who bathed daily and invented cosmetics and soap, also invented perfume and toothbrushing, and incense, and also had deodorants. Over 4 thousand years ago.
There is a distinct difference between the smell of freshly generated sweat, and dried sweat mixed with all of the other accumulated filth one accrues when they don’t regularly shower.
The first time I went to pax, the whole convention stank like stale pizza. Like at a mall next to a Sbarro’s. Problem was, there was no food court or restaurants at pax… It’s all the greasy gamer stink.
Yeah, there’s a reason they aren’t scientists. Like, who tf quotes a Future Proof video unironically. They are the idiot’s idea of an intelligent video.
It wasn’t so much “not mind” as it was “put up with” since there was no real alternative for the average person. Also, there’s the remarkable ability of the human brain to filter out inputs it deems unnecessary. Bad smells that are a constant presence end up being filtered out.
People have been cleaning themselves for essentially forever. Bathing was not as common as it is today, but we know people have been washing their hands, feet and face regularly for many thousands of years.
Cleanliness features very heavily in religion dating back thousands of years, and the earliest soap recipe is from ~2500BC, although we know they were making at scale hundreds of years before then.
Wells to make water available in places where there’s no stream or river date back even further to the ~8000s BC.
Most people weren’t rocking perfumed soaps and immersion in hot water, but washing your clothes with a homemade soap, scrubbing your feet, hands and face with cold water and a rag every day or so and likewise your body roughly weekly was available to most people at a minimum. If you were near a river or body of water, like humans tend to prefer to live, washing your feet, hands and face every morning and a weekly scrub was perfectly comfortable.
Primates are generally very conscious of grooming. Humans are unique in regularly washing with water, but we’re also unique in being nearly hairless, remarkably greasy, and clever. It tracks that we’d figure out the water thing pretty fast.
I don’t know, bad smells are not filtered for an evolutionary reason. Sure you work at a bakery and the amazing smell of bread is filtered by day 2 never to be smelled again, but i had to bunk under a mfkr in the military who was under shower supervision, and yet still had a mark on him from that time someone dropped an alcohol pad on his arm. My brain didn’t filter shit, as in the smell of.
The first claim is true though. People used to not mind the smell of sweat.
That it’s percieved as unpleasant, and that people are worried about others smelling them is a modern trend, which was pushed by advertising.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8zRpRPgJNw
11min Video on the topic by “Future Proof”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1shh4d0mz0
German short documentary
Edit: Wow, lot’s of personal attacks, very classy. So many nice people here.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. People have been trying to mask body odor for literally thousands of years.
Unless OP’s definition of ‘modern’ is from, at least, the 1500s till now…
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No its not true, there where products masking bodily smells thousands of years. Idk what you are talking about. But i have to say, if you show up unshowered and without deodorant ata fucking con and im near you i will puke all over you.
You’ve heard of “Free Hugs”…
You’ve heard of “Free Shrugs”…
Now get ready for:
Free hurls
Yeah, they ignore that frigging Egyptians who bathed daily and invented cosmetics and soap, also invented perfume and toothbrushing, and incense, and also had deodorants. Over 4 thousand years ago.
People smell, just fucking use deodorant.
Yeah, but I recall attending a gaming tournament where smash brothers had an entire gym to itself.
By day two it was so bad that the artists(mostly women) just outside the gym had moved their vendor tables away from the gym.
There is a distinct difference between the smell of freshly generated sweat, and dried sweat mixed with all of the other accumulated filth one accrues when they don’t regularly shower.
The first time I went to pax, the whole convention stank like stale pizza. Like at a mall next to a Sbarro’s. Problem was, there was no food court or restaurants at pax… It’s all the greasy gamer stink.
This is the dumbest fucking take. The entire historical record disagrees with two YouTube videos and you’ve landed on the latter’s side.
But they did their own research! /s
Yeah, there’s a reason they aren’t scientists. Like, who tf quotes a Future Proof video unironically. They are the idiot’s idea of an intelligent video.
Big difference between “the smell of sweat” and “horrible BO” though.
It wasn’t so much “not mind” as it was “put up with” since there was no real alternative for the average person. Also, there’s the remarkable ability of the human brain to filter out inputs it deems unnecessary. Bad smells that are a constant presence end up being filtered out.
People have been cleaning themselves for essentially forever. Bathing was not as common as it is today, but we know people have been washing their hands, feet and face regularly for many thousands of years.
Cleanliness features very heavily in religion dating back thousands of years, and the earliest soap recipe is from ~2500BC, although we know they were making at scale hundreds of years before then.
Wells to make water available in places where there’s no stream or river date back even further to the ~8000s BC.
Most people weren’t rocking perfumed soaps and immersion in hot water, but washing your clothes with a homemade soap, scrubbing your feet, hands and face with cold water and a rag every day or so and likewise your body roughly weekly was available to most people at a minimum. If you were near a river or body of water, like humans tend to prefer to live, washing your feet, hands and face every morning and a weekly scrub was perfectly comfortable.
Primates are generally very conscious of grooming. Humans are unique in regularly washing with water, but we’re also unique in being nearly hairless, remarkably greasy, and clever. It tracks that we’d figure out the water thing pretty fast.
I don’t know, bad smells are not filtered for an evolutionary reason. Sure you work at a bakery and the amazing smell of bread is filtered by day 2 never to be smelled again, but i had to bunk under a mfkr in the military who was under shower supervision, and yet still had a mark on him from that time someone dropped an alcohol pad on his arm. My brain didn’t filter shit, as in the smell of.
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“I don’t actually smell bad, you’ve just been socialized to believe that.”
Please touch grass, shower, and apply deodorant.
It’s funny too because many animals have adapted to not be smelled too easily so as not to become dinner.
Username checks out, the smell makes people cry.
People also eat a very different diet now, with way more sugar.
Changes things.
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