As a species, should we get back to nature a bit..?

[joko]

i mean in terms of natural smell, appearance etc

forget societies feelings towards sweat and hair etc, just for a moment, and think about the reasons the body has evolved to be that way - can we say we know better? really?

so imagine if you could wave a wand and suddenly its was totally normally for women to have hairy legs, arms, etc, and we had shall we say 'strong' aromas - but that we didnt mind or even liked that smell...that we left our skin the colour is in naturally, we left our nails natural looking, didnt plaster faces with makeup etc...perhaps a little bit - but as an enhancement - not as almost a mask...

(by all this i dont mean wild and unkempt looking, and that we stop washing...only that we are not instantly revolted by the slightest aroma of sweat or stubble....the point is only that we dont completly strip ourselves bare)

we would also be allowed medication and lice killer etc, so forget those ideas too...i just mean purely as though it just has never got this way...

forget your prefernces, and your ickyness, and the notion that its dirty (its isnt really when fresh) and what do you think?

would it be better...?

thanks

[weeal]

oh but you said 'should we get back to...'
thats going backwards against all we now know, pointless really lol

[joko]

weeal...true, sorry...didnt mean it as though suggesting we all suddenly stop overnight...i just meant in general as a species would it have been better never to have happened...or even a gentle 'weaning' off of the over couitured look...as i said i dont mean dirty and scruffy...just not completely stripped of all natural looking bodily image

[lumination]

some of those points made me go in a daze. i feel not having to worry about how you look is a lovely thought. but then its fine for us to not care what we look like but if my boyfriend stopped washing then pheeeeeew weeeeee he would stink!

[Greedyfly]

It would be refreshing I suppose to not have to worry about all the personal hygiene we as a species tend to obsess about.

[joko]

no its not drummed into us exactly...but its expected and frowned upon...but just watch the reaction if you dont do it! ... as as been said - 'cant abide', 'disgusting' etc etc ...

[Mick-Talbot]

should we go back to sh1ting in the woods too?

[Greedyfly]

I am so clean it borders on obsessive at times lol

[ummmm]

That could prove a bit difficult Mick....there are no woods near me.

[Greedyfly]

me either as far as I am aware... I long walk I fear =)

[mollykins]

Do you think it's odd, that in general, woman have longer head hair but less/no hair in other places than men . . . .

[ummmm]

No....!!

They have longer head her because they don't get it cut.

[joko]

im not really saying stop personal hygiene either...you can still wash and keep areas clean that have hair in them....men for instance do it all the time - dont they...

im sort of saying stop thinking about sweaty armpits as being unhygienic and gross and accept them as just how things are or should be...

greedy obssesive is kind of my point...how much further can we go in the quest to completley strip ourselves of nature...? and more to the point - should we...?

should we not be accepting that nature has ways and maybe we have gone too far in trying to go the opposite...

[Greedyfly]

Indeed. A lot of men don't suit long hair anyway and I would imagine most men wouldn't want it anyway because it is just another thing to look after

[Greedyfly]

I agree Joko I think we have taken it to the extreme. For god sake I hoover after we have eaten for fear of crumbs! - that is not natural, I know lol.

I can't ever imagine society now or in the future accepting natural body smells. It is too far drummed into us I think.

[joko]

i agree greedy...its is so ingrained in our psyche that its dirty and gross and a sign of neglect that we cannot even fathom the idea - as proved by some of the comments...but perhaps if it gradually became more fashionable and trendy over many years...?? who knows...i mean look what happened, for instance with herbal medicine - massive at one time...then all but stamped out as quackery...now its very fashionable again...

i expect if versace or prada or whatver made it 'cool' no doubt many would follow ...

[Ankou]

"I hoover after we have eaten for fear of crumbs! - that is not natural"

in the olden days (i.e. when ab first started) we lived in caves and stuff and to drop stuff on the floor just simjpley happened because it fell through our fingers, what with their being a lack of cutlery and swiss army knives. if that attracted ants and lice and other brtal paraistes, like mice etc, then so be it. we lived with them and let them in. sometimes we even let them into our hair - or tummies after 10minutes on the fire.

these days we live indoors. we don;t want mice ants or rats to come in because of the crumbs on the floor, or to live with us in happy harmony. damit, we don;t even tend to eat them that much these days. so clearing away the crumbs is quite natural now and if we use the most modern and easiest means necessary to do this - as would mrs neanderthal (who presumably got a nice new fox tail brush from mr neanderthal for xmas).

in terms of appearance and smell, if we were to revert to nature and reinvent ourselves as nature intended, then you might as well stand at the back of a donkey lifting its tail and stairing into its starfish waiting for it to break wind. you'd not be far off.

[weeal]

pmsl @ Ankou
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