Bathing and Grooming Practices across cultures?
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depend on person by person.\n\n\nGenerally people in any culture take a shower, or want to, when their hair gets oily, they get dirty, or they've been sweating a lot. It's also improtant for sexually active people depending on how active they are.
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Most women are very particular with hygeine and personal care than most men do and most of them have daily rituals for their bodies. Such as using body wash/cream, lotions, mousturizers and body oils that make it supple and just like a baby!!! :-)
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someone who takes baths
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The Romans did have common baths. The others i think the rivers for bath and fields for the rest ;)
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It's a combination of female hormone (estrogen) and the extra-special care that women take, in regards to their skin. You don't see (at least *I* haven't) men washing their bodies with loofahs, pumice stones and using a moisturizing soap ... followed by a good moisturizing lotion. We like to feel good for our men.  *sigh* ... the things we do to keep our man happy ...  :)
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There are a lot of things that everyone does in private that are not acceptable in public, this being one.Most forms of personal grooming should be kept private.
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There is no connection whatsoever, no matter what anyone may say. We people simply do whatever is natural anyway, especially when it feels fine. The best thing for us is to take care of the bodies we have, like keeping clean, taking showers regularly for example. As we get older with shaving a guy is regularly washing his face, so you get the point.
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It's a cultural thing.  The US is the odd one on women shaving.  Today alot of the european women don't shave their underarms or legs.  But more are doing it.  It was a practice that did start in the US but no-one knows why it did.\n\nIt's your wifes decition entirely whether or not she does.  Don't bully her into doing what you like.
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No, the spread in the US was traced to a bisexual Canadian airline attendant who made frequent trips to the bath houses in San Francisco.  According to the World Health Org.
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Whenever you feel it is "dirty," without this activity becoming obsessive.\n\nFor most people, a daily shower suffices.
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Not exactly sure what you're looking for.  Cultural practices are a very wide field--you want marriage traditions, festivals, cultural and moral values, etc?  I'm sure lots of folks could tell you about all of these things.  I read a great book once called "Modern German Cultre", that's a good place to start.  Or Gordon Craig's, "The Germans".
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condition hair, lotion face and body
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Shaving,cutting toenails,facials,all over body maintenance.Even the yucky stuff.:0)
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For people, take a bath! (and wash that hair)\nFor clothes, wash them.\nFor a house, air it out. \n\nOr if that's not possible, use fragrance or deodorizer or room freshening spray.
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You're viewing this through western vision.  In Japanese culture, some situations we would consider lewd and even illegal are part of everyday life.  \n\nCommunal baths for instance.  In our society, bathing with children is outrageous and often cause for alarm.  But in Japanese society it is commonplace for families to bathe together, there is nothing sexual about it.\n\nAlso, the human body is not as demonized in Japan as it is in the US.  A naked body in American culture is lewd even pornographic.  But in Japan, nudity is not a big deal.  \n\nNot that I'm saying it's okay to throw what you would consider pornographic in front of your children.  It's simply not acceptable and can even be damaging in our culture.  But ours is not the ONLY culture in the world.
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1. you can't smell yourself, please ask your partner's honest opinion, if you don't have a partner, ask your mom.\n2. people in my family don't shower everyday, about 2-3times a week.  But if I do exercise or am physically active, I would shower afterwards. Just so that my pore don't get clogged with sweat or dirt.  I do remind my husband if I think it's time for him to hit the shower.\n3. I do think we North Americans shower too often, we are wasting our water unnecessarily.  It cost a lot for the municipal governments to treat water.  when i think that some part of the world don't still have safe drinking water, I feel bad to allow the shower water run for too long.
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on my personal experience, i take a hot shower do slow scrubbing (yeah yeah even guys can pamper themselves once in a while, right (>.<) ). also i drink one glass of warm milk. it works for me so why don't you try it, too\n\ni do this before going to bed