• Anticorp@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Dang, what a world when taking a bath once a week, and occasionally changing your clothes was the height of attractiveness, effective enough to undermine the chastity of wives. The husbands must have been some sticky, slovenly bastards.

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      10 months ago

      They most likely just washed themselves with wet rags on the other days. There was no running water back then, remember?