I suppose the women who like a nice, smelly man are probably the kind of women who, well, like a nice, smelly man. It takes all kinds to make the world go round; I’m just glad my husband showers regularly.
I will agree that a daily shower is probably not absolutely required for most office-working folks.
I don’t even know where to start with this list, so I guess I’ll just ask when it became snooty to bathe regularly?
As far as the OP, I don’t recall ever being turned off by a guy because he smelled good, but I have been turned off by guys who smelled bad. Some women may be turned on by a man’s natural scent, but not all.
That said, when I’m working from home (like I am now), I get into a habit of not showering for days unless I’m leaving the house. I think it bugs me more than my husband. Just makes me feel too grungy to go for two days without showering.
I’ve been known to skip a shower here and there, but even I can smell how bad I am after 2 or 3 days without a shower… and if I can smell it, that means other people can smell it 10x as bad. Maybe some people really don’t smell bad, but EVERYONE who I’ve met who is proud of “not having to shower all the time” smells awful. Really, really bad.
I won’t skip a daily shower simply because I have very oily skin. If I don’t shower at least once in, say, a 36 hour period ( I can go more than a single day, but less than two ) I feel gross. Particularly my hair.
It has not a thing to do with other people’s sensibilities and everything to do with mine. Women and men will just have to learn to tolerate my lack of virile man-stink. And selfish though it may be, I give not a single crap for the resources thus “wasted” - far as I am concerned they are being put to good use :).
Sure it’s okay to smell. But that doesn’t make it attractive to others, and it’s also okay for people to avoid those who smell.
As far as women liking men to smell like body odor- no. Some women like the smell of their own man, but that doesn’t mean they like the smell of all men who haven’t showered.
No, no, it’s not.
I admit I’ve been turned on by a good clean sweat at times, but bathing daily is almost mandatory. Most days, I shower twice. I would not want to be in the same room with someone who had not showered in days, let alone the same bed.
Stuff like this is why I call women hypocrites. “I like sweat sometimes… except when I don’t.” Gah!
Theories should be tested. If you haven’t bathed in a few days, Nostravinci, roll on out and flirt with a nice sample size of women, and be sure to include a wide age range. Report back with the response.
(Hint: if a lover we really dig joins us in bed post-shower and breaks a sweat while making sweet, vigorous love… he smells goood. A clean, hard-working sweaty man on a workday: good. A clean, appealing man in the gym after a sweaty work-out: good. But an inexplicably sweaty, smelly, greasy-haired unwashed stranger picking us up in the grocery: not so much. Back off a few feet, wouldja?)
So much information in two little sentences and an exclamation.
I’m a guy. I don’t want to smell your BO. So no, you’re not right.
Me too! My sense of smell is extremely sensitive. People, you may not realize it, but: most likely, if you are not an adolescent, you don’t exert yourself, and you don’t spend any time in the heat, absent some kind of bath or shower you’ll begin to stink within 48 hours. If you are a teenager, you exert yourself, and/or you are in hot weather, YOU WILL STINK A LOT VERY SOON.
The absolute worst is when people use lots of deodorant in the belief that this will keep them from getting stinky. If they use an antiperspirant, it probably does slow down the fermentation process a little, but not enough. Instead of smelling of human stank, they end up smelling of human stank unsuccessfully covered up with artificial products. This is truly nauseating.
I do not want to smell you. If I can, that is a reason to avoid being around you. Unless you smell like flowers. Which you don’t.
What kind of a strong impression that is the question.
Once I commented how my date smelled naturally good and that eventually led to break up due to strong odors.
But then again there’s something to us missing out on all kinds of chemical reactions and messaging based on the scent that our caveman ancestors enjoyed. Just imagine the smell… There was a thread about evolutionary reason for itchiness; I thought it might’ve been as a bath time indicator. Stop scratching frees your hands and mind to do other more productive things?
It means you have too many ticks and obviously not enough social contacts to pick them off you, therefore you’re a loser and cavewomen should avoid you.
I suppose it’s ‘okay’, but if you stink like a dirty human you make me want to vomit every time I get a whiff, and I will always resent you for it and avoid getting close to you.
One does not have to shower daily in order not to smell dirty/bad/like BO. I know plenty of people who manage this.
Some people do indeed claim to enjoy the ‘natural’ smell of human beings, encourage their lovers not to wear deodorant, etc. I wish all of you would go live on a commune together so I never had to smell you again.
I shower daily mostly because I have a lot of hair and it is a mess in the morning. I have to wet it, so I might as well shower while I’m at it. I think it depends on your level of activity whether you need a daily shower. I prefer to not stink and would want the same from someone I was intimate with.
Or under a rock.
No it’s not ok to smell unless your on a camping trip.
Taking a shower in the morning is part of my routine. Considering I can smell the funk coming around by mid afternoon. I’m sure my colleagues appreciate the fact I take a shower with soap every morning.
Who’s scruffy looking?