Well I am sure most of you will find this amusing...
We are animals. Animals have odors. They (the odors) often often have meaning. They infer health, sickness, female heat and fecundity, anger, fear (IF you are afraid of dogs...they know cuz you stink) etc. Modern 1st world humans have lost the innate understanding in these odors, the natural world has not.
Humans also have several specific symbiotic bacteria that live on and within. The ones that grow particularly fast in a stressed environment smell like typical human B.O.. I suspect others that do not reach effective numbers in a day or two, keep the smellier in check, whether through competition or active exclusion. The neurotic daily shower is a relatively new mania. Yes people in "the old days" may have been smellier, but not within a couple hours of the weekly bath...otherwise why bother.
I lived in my VW bus (as some of you know, yes... sometimes, down by the river) for a spell following the Grateful Dead tour making mad grilled cheese sandwiches; and in between camping various distances from running water.
After your body makes a transition (no idea how long, days, weeks?) you no longer stink like all the shit we eat, breath, worry about etc. in the industrial stressed culture, and a weekly bathing is not a big deal. Now mind you you are ready for a shower, but try going 2 days now and...you stink!
I am not saying that everyone should stop showering, though reducing their length and breadth would help alleviate the shortage of clean water brought on by our irresponsible reproduction. I am merely trying to give a tilted perspective. Much like a persons physical appearance, specifically their weight, should not be the basis of their worth, neither
should their odor...though this is understandably easier said than done (I used to pick up hitchhikers religiously...till one...in 2 miles...stunk up my new car for weeks). That being said, I find Ax, and various other men's stink suppressors as offensive as BO. And don't forget...women wear make-up cuz they are ugly...and perfume cuz they stink...I am kidding, a little, here.
I would much rather hang out with smelly hippies than a bunch of tight assed, insecure sheeple stinking of expensive organic molecules...worrying about other peoples "Hygene" cuz they are terrified someone will find out that their shit stinks too. People need to worry about themselves...most of us are at least a little f'd up, and those that think they are not...scare the hell out of me.