Whats The Longest You've Gone Without Bathing?

All other times: 48 hours. And not by choice.

I have done longer stretches without washing my hair which is very skanky indeed.

Longest without the all over body was. A five day Glastonbury - came back with a bear too.

When I was in my late teens, my parent got in a massive billing dispute with the local oil company. So we went without heating oil (to run our hot water heaters as well as our central heating) for an entire summer. I still managed to get a shower or bath in every 48 hours, through pretty notorious means. I would get myself invited to every party imaginable, then as soon as I got there, lock myself in the bathroom for half an hour. Once or twice I even let myself get picked up by boys, then as soon as we got home, barricaded myself in their showers and wouldn't let them touch me.

Even when I was in the worst depression, I couldn't stomach the not bathing thing. In fact, during the worst times of mental illness, I'd usually shower compulsively 2 or 3 times a day. And wash my hands every 15 minutes. Literally. Like, I would get up in the middle of class once or twice and excuse myself to wash my hands.

Don't mind it in other people, though. I've always been very attractive to dirty boys. The skankier the better.

See, this is the sort of thing I *wish* we'd studied in history, not stupid kings and queens. Like the idea of privacy is only a very recent invention in the past 100 years or so. Older houses, even for the very wealthy, never had corridors, you'd just go through all the rooms one after another to get to the others, even if there were people in them. The corridor, as an architectural feature, is only about 150-odd years old.

Bill

However as a grown up I find that my laissez faire attitude to eating things off the ground causes great disgust among friends who were clearly brought up in Obsessive Compulsive households and are probably allergic to wheat, dairy produce, peanuts, pets etc. etc.

Needless to say, I never went camping again. And never will.

I do like a good shower though, I have one that sprays in a very wide circle so I can position myself in the dead centre and exist in a cocoon of water. I can stand there for ages, it's strangely meditative.

I think the daily bathing phenomena is a product of post WWII advertising champaigns. Of course, I blame advertisers for everything, so, I am probably full of shit.

I liked it the one day I visited.

Me, it's pretty noticeable when I haven't showered in a day. The most I've gone without bathing was recently... 4 days. Staying over at a girl's place, then train trip down the coast, then staying in the next day.

Each show will feature six different stories about people within this age group who live very different lives.

For the Health programme we are keen to speak with people within our age group within the UK, who don’t take care of their personal hygiene; obsessed with uncleanliness and go for days without washing.

We are filming the week beginning 8th April 2002 through until 10th May 2002 and are keen to speak with people at some point this week/ as soon as possible.

I hope you can help!

Many thanks in advance,

I look forward to hearing from you very soon!

Best Regards,

Ahrani Thiriloganathan (Miss)

Outline Productions

E-mail: ahrani@outlineproductions.co.uk

megabump! The bathing habits of others always confuse me, since I'll often go a week between showers and it's only after five days or so that I get notably grotty. My skin is as smooth as silk, independent adjudicators have told me that I don't smell, and my hair only descends from 'luxuriant glory' to 'kinda greasy' after, ooh, day four. I am a fairly hairless man, but still. I surely can't be alone in this! Am I just deluded and somehow surrounded by yes men?

When I was in grad school, I'd bathe once a week. I didn't smell too bad at the end of that cycle, but it wasn't terribly attractive, either. I would help things out a bit by putting chalk in my hair, which reduced the oiliness some. The grossest part was week-old crotch rot & butt itch. Eventually, I decided I wanted to make hump with women who were attracted to men who bathed more regularly, so I started bathing once every other day, and now I bathe every morning.