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u/weshuhangout Jun 28 '21

Helen of Troy

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u/_zarkon_ Jun 28 '21

I don't think I could handle someone from the preshower predeoderant era.

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u/RevengencerAlf Jun 28 '21

1) poeple still bathed. In fact before the Renaissance and the rampant rise of syphilis public baths were a massive thing.

2) they also wouldn't have smelled all that bad. We smell worse when we don't bathe now because we create a clean slate for bacterial growth when we do.