So I have balls and yeah they’re the first thing on my body to start to smell. I can skip a shower if I’m in a hurry and I don’t smell much. That’s with working a job that’s usually physical. I was a punk kid fucking punk girls when I was younger and we didn’t bathe every day. I didn’t notice much smell then.
Now I see these ads regularly that are like hey women you stink after 12 hrs 5/10. What’s up?
You guys are seeing ads?
Believe it or not I watch regular TV! I travel for work constantly and I have TV on in the hotel room. It makes me feel less lonely. That’s how I’m seeing these ads. On my PCs it’s Firefox+ublock origin.
Ahh, that makes sense, definitely.
Actually traveling today. Watching tv and three minutes in it’s an ad for female all body deodorant. Christ.
Same here brother. When im on the road, its ads for dick pills and antidepressants on tv for days
Greetings, fellow traveler. May I ask what is your line of work?
I’ve already been overly specific on this account and I don’t want to get doxxed. I install and service computer networks of a certain kind.
Reasonable enough. I do something like that myself. When a piece of remote and highly specialized computer system shuts itself, I’m the one who flies in to fix it, in addition to the occasional mobilization and servicing.
I use an adblocker, but I also drive a very old car and unfortunately my cd player just broke. I can confirm that there are tons of vaginal deodorant ads on the radio, always presented as a conversation between two women. There’s no intention to be funny, they’re trying to sound like a natural conversation two women would have in private and completely failing at coming across as anything short of awkward.
“So it works well for you?” “Yes! It lasts up to 24 hours, and four out of five gynecologists recommend it!”
Good point re:radio.
I can’t imagine the conversation between the client and the ad agency in these cases.
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Haha marketing is what it is… a joke I made up some 30 years ago was that, despite what we see on the surface - the evidence proves that women are disgusting, dirty, fat, ugly animals that need a vast array of products to be created so that they can go outside without offending everyone…
So yes, you’re right to find this ridiculous and offensive - but at the heart of it is simple greed, which is the real meaning of the American Dream.
That’s interesting. I avoid ads…so I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. I think my balls get a bit of a smell after a day, but like a nice, mild balls smell. My pits, man, my fucking pits…they go rancid in about a day’s time, definitely in 2-3. Simply stating as a matter of fact, gotta deal with my pits before my balls.
I’m talking ads you can’t avoid on TV. Yeah I’m so old I don’t have a screen in my face but across the room.
Maybe switch to antiperspirant? I did that many years ago and it really helped.
Well it all goes bad anyway, it’s just good to clean up. I do not use antiperspirants, I don’t like the idea of shoving stuff into my pores to block bodily functions. Those are kind of addictive, like if you’re on them & don’t use them, sometimes I feel like the problem is even worse. Like your body is purging because you stopped it up with aluminum.
I used antiperspirants until late HS, early college; it stained, discolored my shirts. I stopped using antiperspirant, and the staining stopped, too.
The full body deoderant people are expanding into the male market. Not sure why they felt the need to change the name, I think it’s the same stuff? 🤔
Women:
Men:
Note, same company. I haven’t tried it, some reviews say it smells funky, like sour milk or bad cheese, which, you know, I don’t need to spend money to smell funky. LOL.
https://selfmagnitude.com/blog/brutally-honest-product-review-lume-deodorant
I did learn, after buying a hot tub, that men and women have a pH difference, so that might have something to do with it.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-0846.2001.70206.x
“A statistically significant difference in skin pH between men (mean pH=5.80) and women (mean pH=5.54) was found, with women being more acidic than men (P<0.01). No difference between right and left arm was found. In men, the area closest to the wrist had significantly lower pH values compared with the proximal sites. This was not the case in women. Skin surface pH decreased during normal working hours in both genders.”
Since Lume and Mando started their big marketing push, other known brands are doing the full body treatment, I think I’d trust them over Lume and Mando which look to be mostly marketing.
Secret (guessing for women):
https://secret.com/en-us/shop/aluminum-free-whole-body-creamOld Spice (guessing for men):
https://oldspice.com/total-body/The ads I’m seeing have been for “full body” deodorants. Targeted at both men and women…
I don’t know but I’m honestly convinced that they put something in women’s deodorant so that we need to buy more of it and it makes us stink more because when I start using fancy women’s deodorant I fucking stink like God awful and I can’t even stand my own smell but when I stop using deodorant or can’t afford it for a while I don’t smell bad and I can’t figure it out
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You’ve obviously escaped the Old Spice full body deodorant for men commercials running perpetually on YouTube.
Yeah I don’t watch much YouTube. I do have regular TV on in the hotels I stay in for work which is where I see these ads.
You’re doing manual labor without showering?
Reminds me of an old roommate I had. He didn’t think he smelled either… he did… it was rough
Been there with two coworkers back when I managed a restaurant. They couldn’t believe they smelled when I had to have that terrible conversation with them. One improved, the other didn’t. I actually had to fire the second guy.
I don’t smell if I skip a shower. It doesn’t happen often. Believe me my wife and my coworkers are very direct, they would tell me if I stink.
Ha ha I always guilt my wife with these commercials. “Do you need that?” She hates those annoying commercials. There the equivalent to all these dumb men’s soap commercials for crap like this. https://www.drsquatch.com/
Because deodorant company stepped up their marketing budget
Your balls start to smell first? Wonder why. Inadequate wiping? My armpits will start to go musky after about 4 days in the same clothes. That’s my first thing to go. 🤷♂️
I’m 40 years old and my balls are quite long. Different body bacteria maybe? I shower after I shit so it’s got nothing to do with wiping.
I shower after I shit
Like, a bidet? Or a full-blown no-clothes shower?
Women are smelly
As a woman, I prefer to clean that area with isopropyl and tea tree oil. Call me crazy. I’ve been verbally berated for choosing to do this, by people who claim it’s “bad for your mucus membranes and flora”! You know what I don’t need because of that? Some expensive deodorant marketed specifically for that region of the body. Smells are a sign of an infection.
I’d be more worried that isopropyl would irritate your skin, but, hey, if it doesn’t bother you, good for you!
