• onion@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    The first claim is true though. People used to not mind the smell of sweat.

    That it’s percieved as unpleasant, and that people are worried about others smelling them is a modern trend, which was pushed by advertising.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8zRpRPgJNw
    11min Video on the topic by “Future Proof”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1shh4d0mz0
    German short documentary

    Edit: Wow, lot’s of personal attacks, very classy. So many nice people here.

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      6 months ago

      No its not true, there where products masking bodily smells thousands of years. Idk what you are talking about. But i have to say, if you show up unshowered and without deodorant ata fucking con and im near you i will puke all over you.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, but I recall attending a gaming tournament where smash brothers had an entire gym to itself.

      By day two it was so bad that the artists(mostly women) just outside the gym had moved their vendor tables away from the gym.