Yes it's a fact that obese people smell worse than fit people, so if it was a marathon runners convention and everyone actually bathed daily, I'm sure going without deodorant wouldn't be an issue. Too much fucking might be an issue if the majority of the women aren't on hormonal birth control.

But I think the issue with anime conventions isn't lack of deodorant, it's thinking a shower is something you take every 4-7 days, and 'eww don't touch your buttcrack to clean it, that's nasty!'

I may get flack from the twox crowd for this comment, but talking to my fiance was like talking to a guy when she got off hormonal birth control. Conversation is just... chill now.

That's probably the next big "oops, we fucked up bad the last 50 years, but men's birth control is hard!"

In 95 I was staying at a hotel that had a D&D convention. I was with a group of union boilermakers and we got gripped at by the staff for refusing to allow some of those stinkers on the elevator with us.

I can smell when a woman has her period if I smell her skin, so not at any distance other than intimately. My best guess is all the hormonal changes alter pheromones from the normal and we can pick up on that.

Not like it is a bad smell, just her normal natural scent changes.

I take testosterone which makes my sense of pheromone smell increase like crazy (not just sweat, I can go into a truck stop late at night and tell if someone was in there somewhere and peed and how hydrated they were, or if someone just had sex in the shower in there... or just an orgasm.)

Sometimes I'll walk into our own house bathroom half an hour after my fiance left for work and get an overwhelming woah, she's definitely on her period right now smell or conversely, "oh yeah, tonight could be a fun night."

Our oldest started showering in the mornings before school, and its become a subconscious game (I think, to him) of who can get in the shower first, because I do not want to smell his.. shower.. my entire shower.

Humans are capable of absolutely incredible senses when they're finely tuned. But our senses are so out of whack, literally, in so many different ways we barely have concepts or words for yet. We have known about, as one example, estrogen-raising chemicals being in plastics leeching directly into our bodies and soil and water and food supplies for over 30 years now (BPA), (when estrogen levels rise, testosterone levels lower, and vice versa. same is true for many core bodily systems). Then around 2010 they did a study that found some of these new lightly tested BPA-free alternative plastics released even more estrogen into the system than BPA did. How's that for a chucklefuck

Plastics, and then leaded gasoline, and then PFASs shortly after (or before) that.... well, when a molecule or series of molecules is found that greatly benefits civilization in some way, people will die. People will sit under oath in front of the supreme court swearing they had no idea how harmful their products were.

It's very unfortunate, because the species are being modified in so many unforseen ways. Not just humans. Alex Jones got meme'd so hard for the chemicals are turning the fuckin' frogs gay!

I'm not sure what I'm ranting about now. I'm just sad for our species and those species affected by us and unable to do anything about it. It's never as simple as it's ALL profits and follow the money! because we've been able to make so much progress as humans through the use of breakthrough technologies like PFASs and plastic. But, at what cost? Our current methodology is to let the major corporations sell these new breakthrough molecules far and wide, and then in 5 years or 5 decades we start to see mainstream scientific acceptance that "okay, it's really bad, we have to do something about this"...

Sure, though, it did some good in the meantime.

Bedbugs smell worse than roaches. Roaches will make me leave a place. Bedbugs make me run in terror.

Did not know that was possible.

Same, but I'm starting to think you need a pretty sizable infestation in a nearby wall for this to be a thing.

I recently had to close my store for an hour, because I was the only one working and couldn't breath due to one customers bad hygiene.

I don't even have the greastest sense of smell, I might even consider it impaired, but personal experience begs me to suggest never applying at your local public library then.