Wait, how long has this been going on? Do most people really take showers every day? Most people I know (myself included) only do it when they get smelly/sweaty, which is roughly every day in the summer, every 1.5-2 days in the winter. Is this a US thing?

The article says one of the people interviewed had a subscription to a fancy spa, and showered there.

Does it really have to? I'm sure you can avoid that by not using hot water (or even going with cold-ish) and not spending more than 3-5 minutes in the shower. Also you can turn off the water if washing your hear takes time. Seems simple to address.

Do you actually have the habit of taking two-hour hot showers on a running shower? How incredibly wasteful would that be?

How do you know someone else is taking too long unless you also have been in the communal shower too long?

South African here. I shower daily, no matter the season (as does everyone I know). Sometimes another quick shower just before bed on a hot day.

I just don't feel clean otherwise. Climate accounts for the seasons, but we do it in cold-ish Winters as well.

How long are your showers?

Opposite here. I need to shower at night or else I feel dirty when trying to sleep in my bed.

I'm intrigued. Why is that the best time?

How is that evidence of anything?

> Knowing that lots of folks are fine with simply washing up on non-shower days

Clearly the issue in question is whether some form of daily washing regimen is needed, not whether it is specifically coming from a shower head or not.

All you're saying there is lots of folks are fine with daily washing.

> and that some folks simply don't live in areas with such shower access?

That's irrelevant to the issue we're discussing.

> Waking up slimy with sweat around the breast and armpit area and having a brutally honest spouse who'd tell me if I stink?

I was asking about how you'd know beyond personal anecdote

> Freaking medical knowledge about what causes the smell? Seriously. Just stay clean, and that doesn't actually involve daily showers.

Again, were taking about daily cleaning not specifically whether there's water from a shower head.

How are you supposed to stay clean? What if you get dirty? What do you do then?

> Change clothes as necessary, especially underclothes. Use products that reduce sweating under the arms. You can wash up without showering,

Again, the issue is about washing not specifically how the water is delivered.

> and if it is a hot, humid area everyone has a bit of sweat.

That's irrelevant to what we're discussing.

> Only a few areas tend to produce strong smells on a daily basis.

That's also irrelevant... does that somehow indicate that washing isn't required?

Now I'm dragging a set of clothes/shoes, soap, towel/rag, hair brush, razor, shaving cream, etc to work? Probably should wear sandals in the shower unless I want foot fungus. Then what do I do with my wet towel and stank clothes? Stuff them in a bag where they stink worse? Hang them in my cube?

Then I head home and have to put on my stank clothes and get all sweated up again. Time for another shower I guess.

And that's not mentioning the time in transit, probably an hour a day round trip by bike. This is why I live close to my work. I can drive there with all the street lights and park, portal to portal in 10 minutes.

Is it any of your business?

People are much less sensitive to their own body odor than you may assume. Please default to taking a shower before you go to public places unless you have very concrete evidence otherwise.

Yeah, if by "massively" you mean he'll only be expected to have a possibly-fatal fall twice instead of five times.

Your post is extremely ignorant. It not only offensively and incorrectly ascribes daily showering to "prissiness" and "obsessiveness" (as if that's the reason I shower every day, instead of, you know, wanting to smell nice, look nice, and feel refreshed), it also claims that this is an American phenomenon (I'm Canadian, and many/most people I know shower daily. The ones I know who don't, smell). It also assumes all people are the same. Personally, I'd feel pretty sorry for your wife if you smell like I do after not showering that morning.

It's no more "bizarre" than the Japanese are bizarre for using those funky toilets with built-in bidets. Cultures may be different. Let them be different without judging, and without projecting.

I made a comment that getting ready twice in short order is a pain, which is why people wouldn't want to have PE first thing.

I don't see what any of this has to do with the difference in showering schedules between white collar and blue collar labor.

My dad worked in a factory and showered after he got home from work. That was the time of day that made sense because his work was hot and sweaty and dirty.

I suppose the idea could have been that you could have just not showered at all and showered once you were done with PE, but still unsure where this detour is headed.

I'm more likely to mindlessly apply body soap to my hair or shampoo to my body when solving problems in the shower. I'm always amused when my autopilot makes this mistake.

Yeah, the condition of my hair isn't what prompts me to shower daily. If my skin could magically be clean and pleasant (to both myself and other people), we could talk.