“If you go 100 years back, we didn’t shower every day, because the shower was not a normal thing to have,” declared Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, a professor in Denmark at Aalborg university’s Department of the Built Environment. “We don’t shower because of health. We shower because it’s a normal thing to do.”
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The “Prostitute State” author only hoses off once per month to help the environment — a lifestyle choice inspired by spending two weeks in the Amazon with the indigenous Yanomami people, he said.
Every other morning, McCarthy told a reporter, he opts instead for a wash at the sink, using a cloth to give his body a good scrub.