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The culture was different too. We were permitted one shower a week. The effect of this was compounded by a ban on any artificial scents. In the stalls, during prayer, we knelt in each other’s stench. This was especially distressing to me as I was an athlete: exercise meant sweating, which meant showering. So I stopped exercising, save on shower day. I felt gross and disgusting and this depressed me. I lost my robust health, and this depressed me. I couldn’t understand how young men could be fine with only a soccer game or a hike twice a week. When I asked my fellow seminarians about this, they chanted in unison, “Cult of the body! Cult of the body!” It was shocking that basic hygiene and youthful exuberance was dismissed as evil self-indulgence. All this talk of charity – in my mind, charity towards your neighbour starts with a bath.
But I have also seen it used against bodily beauty, even in pre-V2 books, although not the exact phrase but the same meaning.
We were permitted one shower a week.
Quote from: Disputaciones But I have also seen it used against bodily beauty, even in pre-V2 books, although not the exact phrase but the same meaning. You might have seen a similar phrase, but the meaning is not the same. "Cult of body" is not reached by basic hygiene and grooming or reasonable exercise. To say otherwise is a Puritanical view and heretical. Real "cult of body" is reached when people obsess over and keep littering their bodies with tattoos or piercings ... or they spend 5 hours a day in the gym to sculpt that "perfect" body ... or they spend so much time looking at themselves in the mirror critiquing every inch of their body ... or they get plastic surgery or body modification for reasons of vanity (not health-assisting) ... or they wear immodest clothing in public to show off their bodies ... etc.