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People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Zahille7 to c/[email protected]

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Like, I travel around for work and I've met plenty of people from all backgrounds.

Why is there a demographic of people who don't seemingly bathe regularly, or at the very least wear something to cover up their BO? I could understand if it's an allergy, or even religious reasons (though the people I've met that smell bad are usually you're average American young adult man) but recently (like in the past week, recently) I've met a concerning number of people who don't seem to wear any kind of deodorant or possibly don't even bathe regularly; it's starting to become an issue for me, as I don't even want to interact with them when I can smell them walking up from 3+ feet away yet I need to for work.

Does anyone have any possible insight?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some ethnicities have less or different body odor. So some people just don't need much or any deodorant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4724538/

[–] Zahille7 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

though the people I've met that smell bad are usually you're average American young adult man

[–] meekah 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The average American young adult man can have many ethnicities, sometimes mixed, even

[–] Zahille7 1 points 11 months ago

I mean I was trying to be nice, but like 99% of the smelly people I'm talking about are your average pasty white American nerd.

I've come across plenty of people belonging to other ethnicities and just like with white people it's a wide range of smells. From perfume-y and pleasant to absolute reeling of sweaty feet in flip flops.