Daily showers are purely ‘performative’ and have no real health benefit, experts insist
Call it perfume-ative hygiene.
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Sometimes it takes just one cold shower to set your priorities straight.
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“If you go 100 years back, we didn’t shower every day, because the shower was not a normal thing to have,” declared Professor Kristen Gram-Hanssen from the Department of the Build Environment of Aalborg University in Denmark “We don’t shower because of health. We shower because it’s a normal thing to do.” Getty Images/iStockphoto© Provided by New York Post
The “Prostitute State” author only hoses off once per month to help the environment — a lifestyle choice inspired by spending two weeks in the Amazon with the indigenous Yanomami people, he said.
Every other morning, McCarthy told a reporter, he opts instead for a wash at the sink, using a cloth to give his body a good scrub.
Chemist David Whitlock was so adamant about preserving this dermal barrier that the bathing abstainer didn’t shower for 12 years, instead opting to spray himself with good bacteria.
Experts claim that people shower frequently because they don’t want to be slapped with the scarlet letter of smelliness.
“We wash our bodies so much more than we did in the past,” Dale Southerton, Professor of Sociology of Consumption at the University of Bristol, who co-authored the report, told the Beeb.
“The change has mostly come about over the past 100 years, and it was not planned. In fact, it seems to have happened almost by accident.”
“I do think a lot of the showering is performative,” said environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy. “Why are we washing? Mostly because we’re afraid somebody else will tell us that we’re smelling…”
Thoughts
dont they know thats how plagues occur?!? Like you should want to be clean... Trying to justify not washing ya ass...
