> This is why it's so difficult to find people willing to forgo these products
Pragmatically, we can't smell ourselves very well, and we tend to think it smells fine when we can. So how would you know we don't need to be insecure?
Our society is also uptight about this such that it's often treated as offensive and transgressive to do a very normal and polite thing (one would think) and point out to a close acquaintance or any friend, that well, they smell, since they probably don't know themselves.
In short, stop wearing so much deodorant and ask someone you can trust "do I smell okay?" (And not your spouse. Because same problem as yourself.) Oh so awkward. But how else will you learn? For myself, I was greatly over-estimating the scale of the miasma. Some clearly are underestimating theirs. Some data points would help us all.
Pragmatically, we can't smell ourselves very well, and we tend to think it smells fine when we can. So how would you know we don't need to be insecure?
Our society is also uptight about this such that it's often treated as offensive and transgressive to do a very normal and polite thing (one would think) and point out to a close acquaintance or any friend, that well, they smell, since they probably don't know themselves.
In short, stop wearing so much deodorant and ask someone you can trust "do I smell okay?" (And not your spouse. Because same problem as yourself.) Oh so awkward. But how else will you learn? For myself, I was greatly over-estimating the scale of the miasma. Some clearly are underestimating theirs. Some data points would help us all.