Being exposed to the elements and, I’m assuming in decent shape based off what you said, is pretty different from being indoors sitting all day on a likely less ideal diet.
Also how much you smell depends on how hairy you are too.
I’ve gone camping and without long showers too due to lack of water out in the wilderness, even going nearly barefoot, but between the dirt dust and nature’s VOCs sticking on you, it’s hard to smell too bad unless you’re sweating like crazy as you do some kind of manual labor. And even then, the sun is a good deodorant.
Same with sailing - I think the salt spray inhibits things.
The other thing I don’t wear underwear when out camping. So there’s much more air down there too. Not the case if using underwear and sitting in a chair all day.
I guess the part that kinda annoys me is that the common advice is “use deodorant” and not “try going for a walk and eating a carrot”. This ties into the many issues I see in industrialized society being caused by shortcuts. Yeah, smearing yourself in deodorant fixes the problem for today, but the underlying issue will be worse tomorrow. I guess there’s no profit in worrying about tomorrow.
My main thing is they should still at least shower, not necessarily use a ton a deodorant. Still just basic hygiene. I don’t think either of us would go straight to a convention or such after camping in the woods for a month for example lol. And that’s still not as bad as sitting all the time with a less than ideal diet in probably the same clothes often.
Being exposed to the elements and, I’m assuming in decent shape based off what you said, is pretty different from being indoors sitting all day on a likely less ideal diet.
Also how much you smell depends on how hairy you are too.
I’ve gone camping and without long showers too due to lack of water out in the wilderness, even going nearly barefoot, but between the dirt dust and nature’s VOCs sticking on you, it’s hard to smell too bad unless you’re sweating like crazy as you do some kind of manual labor. And even then, the sun is a good deodorant.
Same with sailing - I think the salt spray inhibits things.
The other thing I don’t wear underwear when out camping. So there’s much more air down there too. Not the case if using underwear and sitting in a chair all day.
Yeah, I think we’re in full agreement.
I guess the part that kinda annoys me is that the common advice is “use deodorant” and not “try going for a walk and eating a carrot”. This ties into the many issues I see in industrialized society being caused by shortcuts. Yeah, smearing yourself in deodorant fixes the problem for today, but the underlying issue will be worse tomorrow. I guess there’s no profit in worrying about tomorrow.
Oh, true, especially antiperspirants.
My main thing is they should still at least shower, not necessarily use a ton a deodorant. Still just basic hygiene. I don’t think either of us would go straight to a convention or such after camping in the woods for a month for example lol. And that’s still not as bad as sitting all the time with a less than ideal diet in probably the same clothes often.