I remember a friend of mine saying something like, "The French stunk so they invented perfume. The Japanese stunk so they invented soap."
Maybe it was the Chinese, but the point stands, even if my memory is hazy.
Buddy of mine had to go 40+ days with out showering in Afghanistan and said after like day 20 the smell starts to go away. Your bodies good bacteria take over and the smell subsides
Or they just got used to the smell of sweaty asshole.
He also liked his food bland. Which is why salt and pepper are the go to spices
the balls, the balls
you ever smell yourself if you dont wash after sex?
When you're King you have underlings to smell you, for you... and THEY BETTER HAVE NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT IT!
Someplace I have read that women in those ages accumulated secretions between the outer labia which eventually dropped off of them since they didn't bathe -- there is a name for those "dust bunnies" but I can't find it.
People cleaned themselves with cloths and sponges. "Baths" as in submersion in a tub were rare. That doesn't mean they didn't clean themselves.
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