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?

    • Christian
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      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!”

      • @[email protected]
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        Good point re:radio.

        I can’t imagine the conversation between the client and the ad agency in these cases.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        Same here brother. When im on the road, its ads for dick pills and antidepressants on tv for days

      • Zeppo
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        Why not just play videos on your computer?

          • Zeppo
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            The problem for me is the blaring, irritating, repetitive ads. I guess anything without that would be fine.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              Part of the background noise really. I grew up with it so I’m used to it. I’m not really watchig the thing anyway, it’s just background noise while I do other shit. When it comes to PC, or something I’m actively watching, I don’t do ads at all.

      • @[email protected]
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        Actually traveling today. Watching tv and three minutes in it’s an ad for female all body deodorant. Christ.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            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.

  • @[email protected]
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    You’ve obviously escaped the Old Spice full body deodorant for men commercials running perpetually on YouTube.

  • well5H1T3
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    Because deodorant company stepped up their marketing budget

  • @[email protected]
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    If it’s for competing brands it’s either evidence of either a gaslighting cartel, or tons of mimicry and breeze testing in the ad teams’ thinking.

    Making women feel uncertain is an old tactic for body care products.

    • silly goose meekah
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      People produce different amounts of body odor. Also it’s better for your skin to not use shampoo every day. 4-5 times a week is totally fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        I never use shampoo, only soap. I live in a place that is always hot and humid. We’re in out coldest time of the year now and it’s currently 27 degrees Celsius outside at 0830

        Trust me people nee to shower once a day or you can smell them across the street

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          I meant to write soap, not shampoo, my bad.

          Probably has to do with the temperature where you live though… It’s different in colder climates, which is apparently most of the world if that’s really the coldest time of year. I’d suggest to try showering with just water once in a while. It should remove most of the sweat and odor, without attacking you skin.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah I think when most people say they shower every day, they don’t mean they are literally washing everywhere with soap. I shower every day (yes it’s hot here too) but shampoo hair maybe twice a week, soap on my whole body usually only once a month or so and usually because I want to exfoliate. Most showers I am very selective in what actually gets washed.

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    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. 🤷‍♂️

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      My armpits will start to go musky after about 4 days in the same clothes

      Why the fuck are you wearing the same clothes for 4 fucking days? The only profession in which that is remotely acceptable is if you’re on the front fucking line of a warzone, fighting for your life.

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        Relax bud. I sit still most days. Web developer. Half the week I work from home. Usually wear the same clothes for about a week. Not socks or underwear though, change those almost every day. T-shirt normally change after 2-3 days. 👍 Shower about 2-3 times per week. I use Aleppo soap. It keeps you clean for much longer, too.

        lol, so worked up about it, too. You okay?

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            Wow, you’re ganging up on me, too?

            It wasn’t like I was accusing you, I was just curious.

        • @[email protected]
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          As someone who also works from home as a software Dev, shower more often and change shirts more often. You stink.

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            Another one who can’t grasp the fact that bodies are different. I expected more from a fellow dev. Shame. 🫤

            You do realize I shower more often than 4 days, right? That’s what I’ve been saying all over this thread, that after 4 days is when I do start to stink a little bit. 👍

            • @[email protected]
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              Nah breh ive worked with people like you too often. Theres always one on the team that fuckin stinks because they think “bodies are different”. Thank god I work remote so I never have to sit by people like you ever again.

              • Victor
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                Keep talking to me like you’ve met me before…

                I don’t stink. I shower way before I start to stink. I told you, all of you, I start to stink a little bit at day 4, but I shower about every other day, at the gym twice a week and at home during the weekend. It all amounts to no hygiene issues. I am also very thorough with my junk after peeing and no. 2. I wipe with paper and wash with water if I can’t get it perfectly clean. You don’t know shit about my hygiene so leave me alone. Prejudiced jerk.

      • Victor
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        You don’t stand on all fours while shitting? No wonder your balls aren’t getting a share of that shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        You don’t produce as much oil when you shower less which is what the smelliest bacteria consume.

        • Victor
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          Exactly. I started showering less often but with more naturally oily soaps (Aleppo soap mainly) and I don’t need to shower as often since a few years back now. Feels much better. Less stress, better hygiene, no such problems, no itching anywhere, no nothing.

          • @[email protected]
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            Must not live in a very humid area, 4 days wouldn’t fly here for anyone that goes outside at all

            • HubertManne
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              Humid or or not I find 4 is doable but 3 is more ideal but only if I don’t do any strenuous activity. If I do then I pretty much like to shower it all off.

              • Victor
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                And this is exactly what is happening with me. I don’t actually wait until 4 days, because if I do I start to smell. People in this thread are confused about that and down voting according to their confusion lol.

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                  I actually do sunday and wednesday nights so go the four but its the end of the weekend when I can sorta afford it. Its not like I stink to high heaven. I can just sorta tell that really 3 is the sweet spot.

      • Victor
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        I can tell when I do smell. I can also sense my deodorant until I start to smell. So nothing wrong with my sense of smell. It’s actually quite sensitive. I’m just very clean, I suppose. I don’t sweat much when I move a lot. 🤷‍♂️

    • @[email protected]
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      I have a really good sense of smell; trust me, you smell after one day and just can’t smell it yourself until day four. I’m sorry if this comes as a surprise.

      • Victor
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        Asked my friend today if I smell, a day after I showered. And I did some pretty rigorous activities today as well. They agreed to smell me, but said I don’t smell.

        What now? Trust your smell, when you have never smelled me? You’re just as full of shit as everyone in this thread replying to me. Not because I’m saying you don’t have a good sense of smell. I bet you do, and I bet you can smell people who do smell bad. But I don’t smell bad. Deal with it. I’m really starting to think it’s a jealousy thing here. People can’t accept that I have good hygiene for some absolutely fucking absurd reason.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • Victor
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        I shower after I shit

        Like, a bidet? Or a full-blown no-clothes shower?

              • Victor
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                Depends, in all honesty. Temperature and how late I am into exercise e.g. Anywhere from 3-7 cm maybe?

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            I uh… slip my pants down and uhh.

            Nah I am very regular and it’s rare for me not to take a FULLY NAKED FULL BODY shower shortly after I shit.

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              Well “regular” is relative. And you don’t sound regular. You sound very ir -regular. In that it’s normal for you to shower after you shit. (Jk I knew what you meant).

              Why don’t you get a bidet? You’d save so much water.

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          😂 bro, didn’t even think about that. They probably don’t, eh.

          Edit: I meant they probably don’t poo at work. Not that they don’t work.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          If I have to shit at work I must be sick. I haven’t shit at work in years. I shit once a day in the morning. I eat a lot of fiber.

          • Victor
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            Wow. I’m envious. I shit like three-four times a day (morning after waking up, possibly after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner). And I don’t eat a lot of fiber. 😭 At least it’s a proper texture, otherwise my asshole would be in trouble.

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    Funny. I just saw such an ad. Advising that you use their deodorant spray everywhere, yea everywhere. (Lady in commercial proceeds to spray her crotch)

    Hmmm. Maybe just to sell more product. Or maybe it’s a mindfuck.

    In the 50s they sold Lysol to deodorize sinks, toilets, rugs etc. Then advised to ladies to spray their crotch with it too. Basically saying that a woman is just another home appliance. Which is mindfucky

    I prefer a bit of funk on a girl. With a touch of floral perfume.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Switch from regular deodorant to an Alum block

      Looks like a piece of ice. Shower normally, dry up, then run the block on cold water and apply… Let it be a few mins and dry your pits

      You can thank me by passing the tip to the next person in need ;-)

  • @[email protected]
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    The ads I’m seeing have been for “full body” deodorants. Targeted at both men and women…

  • @[email protected]
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    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/

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    A fundamental tenet of marketing, the art of separating dollars from your wallet, is to make you feel that you are less. That you are deficient, unless you look like so and so, have such and such, so buy this and that. Consume baby, consume.

    But specifically saying there is a surge across all America is anecdotal. People from different regions get different advertising, broadcast wise and different search results.

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      This is on cable TV. I don’t see ads online because I’m not a fucking idiot. I think cable ads are the same across the country but I’m not sure.

      • @[email protected]
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        Cable ads aren’t the same across the country, and very soon won’t be the same across the city. Addressable TV will bring personalized ads no matter what you’re watching.

        As to why you may see a bunch of ads for similar products all of a sudden, there are a couple causes. When a new company/product comes on the market, they may flood the airwaves with ads to get their name out there, or they may not be familiar with how buying and scheduling TV ads works and will cluster things together so it seems like a barrage instead of spread out over longer periods. Also, when new competition comes to the market, the current leaders get nervous and increase advertising to retain their customers and try to keep them from changing brands. Lastly, it’s the phenomenon about noticing something which causes you to notice it even more (I.e. “there weren’t as many of [my car] on the road before I started driving one.”)

      • @[email protected]
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        Cable tv ads are def not the same across the country. Differ region to region, city to city, age group to age group, time slot to time slot, and are highly targeted just like online ads.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    While being in the same area while my parents are watching TV and I’ve seen Lume womans deodorant commercials quite a bit. Absolutely no clue why it’s becoming more prevalent.

    • @[email protected]
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      Reminds me of an old roommate I had. He didn’t think he smelled either… he did… it was rough

      • @[email protected]OP
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        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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      • NoIWontPickAName
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        I make sure to tell people that my sense of smell is fucked and to tell me if I stink.

  • @[email protected]
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    Just because you don’t notice the smell doesn’t mean there is none…

    If I don’t shower in the morning, I feel like a bum.