People who think it's cool to stink
 

Is it just me (or my area), are people getting stinkier? Especially young people.

I don't remember smelling BO from other people that much when I was little.

It's usually the hipster types or the athletic types. Some random explanations that I heard:

*"Anti-perpirant could give me cancer!"
*"It is natural and HUMAN to have a scent"
*"I like to use environmental friendly deoderant, but they aren't as strong as the mainstream types."
*"I don't have time to shower after I work out"
*"I don't sweat a lot. I can go a week without bathing, I don't notice any odor"

Don't get me started on how many people (especially on the internet) think it is normal to have a smelly crotch. This is the main reason I am hesitant to give oral sex. I'm scared that I might remove the pants from someone and the smell of a dumpster outside of Long John Silvers will permeate my nostrils and the gentle fibers of sheets and curtains.

:eek:oh my goodness...I laughed at this. Ha

I would buy some Lysol Disinfected, Febreeze and some hand gel sanitizer and spray everything they touch around your area...

Sure, environmentally safe products are fine... However, funk invasions are created by opportunistic foul microorganisms and viruses and I am not interested in the infestation. Moreover, I might get a UV irradiated light and make them cross a threshold.

Funky chunky monkey may not get sick, but they can dayum sho make me sick...

Ewwwl!

true....but if you shower...every day....and/or agfter working out or doing yard work or something else that makes you sweaty, this shouldnt be an issue. if you do all of the above, and you still stink, invest in some stronger soap. Or see a doctor.

I had a co-worker at one hospital who used crystals for all kinds of things. She claimed to have a crystal that you could wave under your arms and it worked like deodorant. She frequently bragged about it. Thing was, it didn't work and she ALWAYS reeked of BO. It was so gross!

I don't get how people cannot wear deodorant to the gym. There's a difference in smell between someone who is just sweaty and someone who doesn't use a little bit of "Secret" before their work out session. It's so gross. If they happen to be working out next to me, I have to leave the area because the smell makes me physically ill.

I do feel bad for the people who can't control how they smell. I know it's harder to control it when you have diabetes. My husband's college roommate had a really aggressive case of diabetes so he had this unique smell to him. It wasn't the I-don't-shower type smell but there was a slight odor to him.

I've had a few people insist to me that they less you shower, the less you need to --- that by not showering as often, they'd trained their bodies to get used to it and not produce as much stick. In fact, they had only trained their noses not to notice :(

Maybe it all started the year Matthew MacConahey (sp?) won the "Sexiest Man" label from People magazine. In his interview he said he doesn't wear deo. and that his scent is "manly" and he doesn't bathe every day. Just like the whole "hairless chest" trend, guys always imitate the movie stars. I see a lot of photos of Matthew in the ocean so I hope that is somewhat "cleaning" him. Don't get me started on what flying is like up in the airplanes with people like this. barf!

hahahaha, we were just talking about this the other day. I think MMC thinks ocean = bath. At least he would be properly exfoliated!! :D

I know some hippie types that do this. I want to chase after them w/ a bottle of Drakkar.

Do do that, then it's Drakkar + stink! (kind of like room deoderizer and wet dog- you still smell the wet dog, only now with some roses mixed in).

I used to work with a lady that claimed she could only wash her hair once a week because of it's texture (she had red curly hair). Tuesday night was her hair washing night. On Wednesday, she had normal looking hair. By the next Monday, sure the texture was different- matted, dirty, greasy and smelly! I had horrible morning sickness with my first pregnancy, and sitting next to her in Monday morning meetings made me have to puke. literally.

LMAO!! This is so funny yet so sad. I notice this frequently with quite a few of my patients and more recently a couple of co-workers but after the "personal hygiene" lecture from mgt. they've since fixed their smelliness. We have a couple of practitioners that have gone in to do pap's on women and have flat out told them they need to go home and shower first then come back to get their pap (people coming in for their yearly not because they had a problem). IT's GROSS!!!

I'm confused. Is it better or worse to use deodorant to the gym? I would guess better but I'm a little confused by your post.

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thanks for the heads up, i'm pre diabetic. will stick with the aqaud'gio then

Gross!!! Phtttptth!!! Pseudomonads, Serritia, and Staphylococcos stank!!! No matter how you say the aroma is more humanely. Put some dayum bleach on it! Maybe that's what the kids in Florida are saying about bleach drinking...

Wow, that is really unprofessional. Is this common?

I can't believe . . . I mean, REALLY. I am always really careful to be sure I am uber-clean when I am going to the Dr. - how can you not? Poor Thetaprincess!

I dont think telling a patient they need to shower because their stench is so bad it nearly knocks you down is unprofessional. Now if you were rude in your approach about it with the patient then that might be unprofessional. We have quite a few patients that are just nasty. NASTY. Like heavy heavy smokers that will go days without bathing or washing their clothes. we have a family that comes in about once a month that we have to completely spray down and disinfect their hallway once they are gone because of the combined odor of their B.O. and the fact they have a tomcat that apparently is not neutered.......and I'll leave it at that.

But yes to answer your orginal question. Unfortunately it's becoming more and more common for people to not only come in my clinic with "nasty smell disease" but also "nasty smelling crotch disease." I'm just glad I only have to witness and not do anything else.

Oh, the stories I can tell you about my dad's Dental office... :)

Homeless dude that never saw day 1 of a shower popped up into the waiting room of the clinic. Guess dude wanted 1 of his 2 teeth cleaned... Anyhow, ran all the normal patients out of the room... So, my dad trying to be civil, called management, and they told him, just offer homeless dude some soap... My dad tried that... Homeless dude exclaimed, "I don't stank!!!"--then my dad had to proceed to curse homeless dude out...

Old woman, don't know what she had in her purse, but the minute she opened it, all the cockroaches ran out into my dad's office...

Crack addict... (need I say more?) :D

Oh my, there are some smelly people in Santa Cruz, for SURE! I don't see the logic.

Oh oh! ACTUALLY, my dad didn't used to wear deodorant because he didn't think it helped. My sister and I finally convinced him otherwise after two 8-hour flights in a row. It was bad. Lol

Back to the earlier subject about people not knowing they smell...how can you not know? Am I just that self-conscious? If my hair or face feels greasy or I think I need some deodorant, I'm pretty freakin' aware of that!

I feel icky, like a film is all over me if I know I've been runnin' around ragged... So I take a shower or when I can a bath--daily.

During the summer I will often take two showers or baths - can't stand to feel "sticky" when I "glow" like a mule.

OMG a dental office!!!! I cant imagine the kinds of whiffs your dad has endured!!!

We have a family that comes in. It's the mother, her son who is 30 (who recently tried to get us to write him a script for a Tempur-Pedic mattress he saw on TV so Medicaid would pay for it), his wife, and their kids who all live together. They WREAK of pot and cigarette smoke each time they come in and yet expect us to write them scripts for narcotics. Each time we tell them no yet they still come in trying. I dont feel sad for them, but I do for their small children.

They do that to my dad all the time on the C-IV scripts... He started reporting them to the "insurance" that pay for them... Only thing is they stop seeking care at your facility... But, you also get a DSHS taking those kids away from the family.

The sad part is you get some people who need these narcotics--Sickle Cell Anemia patients. After reviewing the scientific pathology and etiology of this disease, my thoughts are they could really benefit from some mindfulness training. The insurances are already making fibromyalgia patients take these mindfulness training...

The other issue is "intention to treat"... Everybody knows why they come in day in and day out. So, how does one treat this kind of patient without education? I think they call them patient adherence...

Hmm, perhaps doc offices should have "decontamination showers" (like in the old military hospitals) and they could send ppl in there with a clean hospital gown before treatment. Unfortunately, they would probably sue the doctor for this.

I spent my semester studying the ceramics of the bathroom, and you'd be surprised at how late the modern bathing traditions and standards started (as in...your grand parents can probably remember only bathing 1-2 times a week. Any more was unhealthy for women, and effeminate for men).

That being said, I work at a gym and I run to work. It is actually in our employee handbook that we are to "shower before starting your shift or after instructing a class. All staff are required to wear antiperspirant and deodorant. Any makeup must be kept light and natural".

I've got some punk friends who eschew showers for various reasons....

ah well, all kinds to make a world.

I've heard that it actually is kinda unhealthy for the skin to shower once a day. It dries it out and creates all kinds of problems. I've also heard that this is why Americans have more acne problems than Europeans - because we tend to shower more often. Any medical professionals know if there's any truth behind that? I personally think that the high-fat diets of Americans also contribute to the acne problems.

I've heard that too (i.e. drying out the skin) but shoot, the Europeans take it to an extreme. One of my friends was over there visiting for a month and the girl in her host family only washed her hair ONCE the whole time my friend was there.

I literally LMAO @ this.

My dermatologist told me to only shower every few days because as you age your body doesn't produce natural oils. I totally ignored him and just use more moisturizer. The whole idea just creeped me out.

Um, I brush my teeth BEFORE I go to the dentist, even if it means I have to get a brush there at the office, 10 minutes before my appointment.

I couldn't be a GYN. Some women just dont understand that their va-jay-jays need to be cleaned EVERY DAY.

Europeans are about the "natural" body smells. I didnt care for it as a kid when I lived there, and I KNOW I wouldn't care for it now. I mean, do you, but dont be mad if I limit my breathing around you and your funk.

Could the fact that we are maturing at earlier ages have something to do with the increased need for bathing?

This reminds me of an episode of that reality show Airport (or something like that) where this older black man was stopped after he left the terminal because his suitcase and pants' legs of his suit had tons of baby roaches crawling from them. And he was like "what...really? where?" :eek:

I saw that!!!!!!

*spew and vomit*

Matthew Mc is HOT and it hurt my soul to find out that he's funkmaster flex.

I imagine he gets the anti-funk treatment on movie sets but is allowed to bask in his funk when he's not filming movies.

What makes me nuts are the people who all into being "natural" so they don't bathe and then they wear Patchouli. OMG! I get physically ill from the smell of Patchouli. Bleech!

Don't even remind me about the European stink. Bathing twice a week and just throw on some perfume on the off days. Add that into finding hair in odd places on a chick...it's enough to make a man go celibite.

well now I gotta ask: where?

three day old funk mixed with body spray does not equal clean.

Didn't the Europeans always have issues with their water sanitation that is why that "custom" developed? Showers are not abundant "ritual" as it is in our culture. It is beginning to be one. And the French use to make lavish perfumes--the real stuff--the oils and stuff broke on Jesus Christ's feet. ;)

True story - a friend of mine was studying in Germany, and they thought he must have a skin disease because he bathed EVERY DAY.