# Consequences of not bathing?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consequences-of-not-bathing/273569 "2004-11-08T01:57:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consequences-of-not-bathing/273569/41 "2004-11-10T07:38:35Z")

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and bathing will not prevent infestation of either.

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consequences-of-not-bathing/273569/42 "2004-11-11T02:29:14Z")

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> [@gytalf2000](#):
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> What would happen to me if I stopped bathing? (This one is purely hypothetical-- I value cleanliness very highly, I’m just curious!) Within a week, I suppose I would reek pretty badly.

Back in the olden days [well, the 60s anyway] when I was at boarding school, we were only allowed one lukewarm bath a week - and the girls were only allowed to wash their hair once a fortnight. Although it was a church school, they obviously hadn’t heard the saying that ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’.

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