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?
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.
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.
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.”)
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.
Because unscrupulous assholes know they can prey on insecurities and sell a shitty, over priced product to people that don’t know any better.
Those ads are utter bullshit. nobody needs that crap. They particularly don’t need it on their genitals. It causes more problems that it helps.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/11186190
I responded in detail about the whole genital odor thing and how to care for one’s genitals
But why would they not have thought of doing this before. I haven’t noticed this uptick at least in my country but I’m curious now OP has asked. It’s strange that they’ve decided now that they could prey on people’s insecurities when it’s been an option all along and it’s largely already what they do anyway.
There was actually a push a number of decades ago (I wanna say 50’s-70’s?) Where LYSOL was advertising itself as a genital cleaning agent for women.
So not new perse, but considering how much more culterally considerate we are now about women’s health and self image than, say, the 90’s, it is weird that we’re getting these now as opposed to that time period.
It’s not that new. As another user mentioned, there’s been campaigns about smells going back to the radio and print only days. Summer’s eve has made millions with their bullshit “freshness” mentality. The only thing that’s really changed is the ability to directly talk about the product being applied to genitals/the crotch.
The entire deodorant industry trades on implying that any smell is a bad thing anywhere on the body. We can indeed produce some funky smells that are unpleasant, but it really isn’t something that can’t be handled without deodorant for most people. Deodorant is just a ton more convenient and longer lasting for the armpits. Even there, it can sometimes cause problems, though it’s less common for it to be as problematic as at the groin.
I mean, I use antiperspirant on my armpits because washing them as often as needed to get rid of the chemicals the bacteria there produce that cause odor is a time sink if you’re prone to a lot of sweating, or don’t have the freedom to do it when it’s ideal. But you can handle pit odor by cleaning rather than using deodorants.
The difference is that we all know that armpits produce unpleasant odor that isn’t from an infection, so we’ve gotten used to the idea of covering it up, or preventing out by controlling sweating and reducing bacterial presence. But the various makers of the products have been advertising their stuff for ages in a very similar way.
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.
I guess you gotta trust me on this but my wife and my coworkers are quite direct. They would tell me if I smell. It’s very rare for me to skip a shower anyway.
They’re just being nice. You stink
I wish I could shower in the morning, but I’d probably get killed for even just thinking of running water at 4 am in apartment building.
Why?
Noise from running water.
You should keep them away from water at any time, FEEDING them is what you should avoid after midnight.
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/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.
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 ;-)
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.
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/
U see ads?
I’m guessing you don’t watch sports.
I have cable TV on in the background in my hotel rooms. Shocking I know!
I just Carey one of those google hdmi plug things with a remote and jellyfin client.
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.
capitalism preys on insecurity 🤷♂️
Women are smelly
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.
You guys are wiping your balls? You must suck at shitting
After 4 days
My guys, you should get that smell test sanity checked
You don’t produce as much oil when you shower less which is what the smelliest bacteria consume.
Must not live in a very humid area, 4 days wouldn’t fly here for anyone that goes outside at all
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.
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.
My momma always said when you first smell yourself, other people have been smelling you for two days.
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.
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?
The guy who suggested I don’t wipe my ass properly everyone!
Cuz you’re fucking disgusting go shower.
Fucking mtg players
As someone who also works from home as a software Dev, shower more often and change shirts more often. You stink.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That must be weird at work, or do you leave and come back?
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.
Yeah…tell us. Do you take your clothes off? Describe it. Like, slow. In a whisper.
Yeah, measure how long your balls are and share
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.
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.
The ads I’m seeing have been for “full body” deodorants. Targeted at both men and women…
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.
You’ve obviously escaped the Old Spice full body deodorant for men commercials running perpetually on YouTube.
The one with toes?
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.
