2007-01-30 09:13:08 · 24 answers · asked by Cetin'S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i've never heard of that.
2007-01-30 09:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Ironically - for some reason it was considered unhealthy to bathe in Europe...
It might have derived from a lack of clean water, or perhaps other reasons (origin of christianity - conflicts there in ideologically...)...
Regardless - it was considered a dangerous practice, and was discouraged...
It might have simply been something involving getting wet - and catching pneumonia or other virus or bacteria as a result - which would discourage a populace from bathing...
It certainly had nothing to do with Baptism - at least not that I'm aware of... I've read no historical data that would correlate Baptism and bathing in any way...
-dh
2007-01-30 17:23:36 · answer #2 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know your Q sounds like a joke....but it's true. I got into a conversation about that with a French guy once.
I was in Vegas and getting into a line behind these two women and one was GORGEOUS! As I got closer, I detected a foul smell of really strong body odor.
It was the women!
I couldn't believe it and suddenly they were no longer attractive at all. Anyways...I asked this French guy about it and he said that they don't bathe often because soap and water are bad for your skin....and remove the skins natural oils. He explained that THAT is why Europeans skins are softer, more supple and less wrinkled than Americans.
I asked him how he got past the smell.....and he said that it's cultural, and that they don't notice it at all in France.
P-U!
I'll pick a woman that uses soap and water and has a few wrinkles over an unwrinkled woman that smells ANY DAY!
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2007-01-30 17:27:14 · answer #3 · answered by Joey Bagadonuts 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it took a lot of effort to collect water, gather fire wood, heat the water, and then later empty the water out.
Do you ever think why you don't ask "Why don't people in the Middle East bathe more? Is it because of Judaism?" Because you'd be an anti-Semite, which indeed would be wrong. But since you hate religion, Christians in particular, why not attack every other religion too?
Did the 100 Million people who died under communism have something to do with atheism? Oh yeah, they were athiests. It did.
2007-01-30 17:18:18 · answer #4 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It actually does have to do with xtianity. The Roman Empire had public baths everywhere, but since they were co-ed the xtians decided that bathing was "immoral" and shut the baths down.
There was also the strange xtian "ideal" of self-denial (including injuring oneself) as a form of penance for simply being born (original sin and all that), and refraining from bathing was a part of it. So filthiness was next to godliness for those weirdos, and still is in a lot of places.
2007-01-30 17:22:28 · answer #5 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a time in which clean water was scarce in Europe.
THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING CHRISTIAN......
Europeans wouldn't even shower because clean water was so precious. And there were two choices;
a. Drink it so no one dies of thirst
or
b. Bathe for hygiene purposes, and THEN die of thirst
So, I guess it was their only choice.
2007-01-30 17:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was rare in most Western cultures until just recently, including right here in the US of A. It was considered immodest, and many physicians actually thought it unhealthy! Aren't ya glad we know better now?
2007-01-30 17:18:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a common view that too much bathing was bad for you. Allegedly, Queen Elizabeth I bathed once a year - whether she needed it or not.
2007-01-30 17:18:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to history, they just didn't use to. When they came to america they thought indians were sick or something cause they bathe everyday... so it was only their custom... maybe the problem was their noses, as they couldn't smell themselves... eeewwww, under all those gears, the armors, yikes.
2007-01-30 17:19:39 · answer #9 · answered by User 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I don't know what time period you're referring to, but for much of history, bathing was considered unhealthy, or water was too precious to use for anything other than drinking and cooking.
2007-01-30 17:17:09 · answer #10 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
hahahahaahhahaahaaaaa.....hehehe...lol
cetin... should your name be cretin instead?
people in the uk bathe just as often as everywhere else, i see no reason why that isn't true of the rest of europe (except maybe france - dirty workshy bunch that they are lol)... i myself bathe daily, so do the majority of the people i know
Don't know who told you we don't bathe as often, but i think they just might have been pulling your leg mate..........
2007-01-30 17:22:44 · answer #11 · answered by Big Bad Ben 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋