# Damn Bitch, Why Should I Take a Shower, We Are Not Having Sex **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350 "2003-04-13T00:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/21 "2003-04-13T04:04:31Z")
Mebbe you smell like a moist monkey. ---
**Author:** ![IcicleFuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ba8739/32.png) [@IcicleFuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IcicleFuzz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/22 "2003-04-13T05:03:46Z")
You know, if you have to be told to take a shower, I’m not surprised you aren’t having sex. You only showered yesterday? You gotta be kidding me. Is anyone else reminded of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=143463)? ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/23 "2003-04-13T05:04:48Z")
I’m in the _if she’s asking you to take a shower you stink, regardless of what you think_ camp. The **only** time I go out without taking a shower first, I’m going directly to the gym (and even then, I feel compelled to wash myself fairly thoroughly). Here’s hoping that the **OP** is just a weak joke… ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/24 "2003-04-13T05:14:12Z")
My sense of smell has been dulled by years of living with dogs who did not care how badly they smelled as long as we let them eat and sleep. So I can go more than a week and not smell my own putrescence. My honey, on the other hand, can smell it after about 36 hours or so. I compromise by showering roughly every other day, and non-coincidentally I get laid more frequently than that. If nothing else, dude, you’re washing off your dick. Girls can (and should, IMO) be very picky about just what they allow inside their bodies for periods of time exceeding one nanosecond. Clean penis=higher chance of getting laid, which I think you’ll agree, Mr. OP Man, is a Good Thing, yes?😉 And even if she does intend to fuck initially, she may change her mind if she sees that you are hygenic, care about her and … well, there’s this thing called life. It’s there to teach you all sorts of wonderful lessons about (in this case) the opposide sex. Learn well, and you too could one day have a conversation with a girl in which she does _not_ ask you if you’ve showered;) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/25 "2003-04-13T05:18:40Z")
Every OTHER day? Sheesh. If I don’t shower once every twenty-four hours, I feel like clawing my skin. Yuck yuck yuck… Some people can go longer than a day without washing their hair-my hair gets so greasy, I must wash it every day. So I take a shower every night before I go to bed. Besides, it feels better when your skin is clean. Forget the stink factor, doesn’t it feel better to have nice, soft, clean skin that isn’t all grody? ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/26 "2003-04-13T05:37:41Z")
A friend of mine has developed a really, really TMI method (based on his time in the armed forces and his spending a large part of his subsequent life on busses) of telling when it’s time to shower. It’s called the “Perinneal Scratch and Sniff Test”. I heartily recommend it to the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/27 "2003-04-13T06:02:38Z")
You guys are really not going to believe this, but I once had a roomate who NEVER bathed. Shockingly enough, he did not smell. I thought at first that he must, and that the rest of us in the house were just used to it to the point we couldn’t detect it, but no, people who visited us said that he didn’t smell to them, either. His hair did not become greasy, either. He was a freak of nature, I guess. Only once in the eight months he lived with us did he even wash, and that was only because his girlfriend begged him because she felt he must be covered in germs, even if he had no body odor. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/28 "2003-04-13T06:46:00Z")
I’m with everyone else - take the hint, you stinky fuck. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/29 "2003-04-13T07:03:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Actually, there is a fine but distinct line between being called ‘bitch’ and ‘A bitch’. I only slap the kids when they call me ‘bitch’, but they would get a real whoppin’ if they ever dared to call me A bitch. Why? What’s the difference here? I think it’s the exact opposite, actually. “BITCH, get in the kitchen and bake me some pie!” Is less offensive than being called “a” bitch? Doesn’t make sense. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/30 "2003-04-13T07:04:24Z")
Wouldn’t being called **THE** Bitch be the most offensive title? ---
**Author:** ![TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@TJ555\_The\_Golfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJ555_The_Golfer)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/31 "2003-04-13T07:17:36Z")
To clarify, I had taken a shower the night before. It was only around 18 hours since I had showered. The only reason she knew I hadn’t showered is because I said that I hadn’t done anything yet all day. And I called her a bitch as joke and she didn’t take offence. If I was really mad I would have called her a cunt. OK? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/32 "2003-04-13T07:42:39Z")
> [@](#): > > _From **DDG** , funny enough to be posted again_ > > Wash thyself, O Child Of Filth, for verily, I canst smell thee even through my computer monitor–yea, even thy pixels reek. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/33 "2003-04-13T10:38:37Z")
Wow if someone I knew felt they had to request that I wash myself before they would come over, I’d be really embarrassed. But, hey that’s just who I am. ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/34 "2003-04-13T11:18:02Z")
If you are going to be a low functioning idgit, at least be a low functioning idgit that smells nice. Be sure to use soap, and don’t just stand under the water. Anyone want to bet me that he pissed in the shower? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/35 "2003-04-13T12:02:04Z")
Who _doesn’t_ pee in the shower? ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/36 "2003-04-13T15:04:08Z")
Damn dude. You have to be told to get a shower? How old are you? You should try and take one on a daily basis. You smell better, you look cleaner and hell you even feel better. It makes the people around you happier, because they don’t have to smell your funky ass. And who knows you might get lucky? Something spontaneous could happen. But with the attitude you have, your chances are slim. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/37 "2003-04-13T15:22:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > \*\*Who _doesn’t_ pee in the shower? \*\* Me. I don’t pee in the shower. Hubby and I call each other ‘bitch’ all the time. Ahhh, love… ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/38 "2003-04-13T15:53:33Z")
Not judging the OP directly, as this could be a fluke or one-time thing, but from what I’ve seen of relationships, if one partner has to _ask_ the other to take a shower, or else feels that they need to prompt for this, then the relationship is headed for the rocks, and the lighthouse keeper is off shagging the barmaid. Note I didn’t say who would be at fault, either. ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/39 "2003-04-13T17:43:58Z")
I think that the OP demonstrates how important it is to recognize that inflection and context are greatly different when used while speaking as opposed to typing. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350/40 "2003-04-13T18:25:42Z")
Maybe you don’t NEED to shower. Maybe you just smell really groovy when you’re clean and tidy and wearing that masculine spicy clean deodorant you use. Sometimes there’s a fine line between being non-smelly and being knock-out _goodsmellin’_. Best, karol, who really LIKES good-smelling guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-bitch-why-should-i-take-a-shower-we-are-not-having-sex/168350.md?page=3)