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[quote=Anonymous]This is definitely a cultural thing.

I shower about 6x a week. Mostly every night, but sometimes I get off that schedule for various reasons and end up missing one, taking an extra one, etc.

I was raised to think all this was totally normal. A few times I've mentioned having missed or delayed a shower to friends. Generally the caucasians have thought it was normal, and the Black people thought it was disgusting. I was shocked at how strongly they felt about it.

Meanwhile I've travelled the world and stayed among people who told me such wildly different perspectives as 1.) I was crazy/risking my health to shower so often, 2.) you really only have to wash your hair once a month 3.) some Asians don't need to wear deodorant, 4.) shower stalls are great places to store things because sponge bathing is what everyone in their country does, 5.) You HAVE to shower in the morning/evening/before prayers. /None/ of these people smelled. (I have also been to some countries where B/O was more common and more accepted, covered or not by perfume.)

There's some biology here (different bodies call for different frequency of bathing) and some culture.

In summary, a therapist responding that way to a child seems inappropriately shaming and cross-culturally ignorant.[/quote]

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