>tfw your fantasy of finding a medieval waifu is ruined because

Is this a meme or true? it seems like it'd be fairly easy to wash in local lakes.

>>2616104
People didn't bathe, but they did wash regularly, with wet cloths and such

>>2616104
Don't know about other cultures but a lot of people in the west in pre-industrial times only bathed like once a month or something. If you time-travelled back to 14th-16th century northern europe you'd be overpowered by the stench

>>2616115
The biggest amount of stench wouldn't even be people but animals and animal products.

>>2616104
Imagine the entire world was India but even worse because there was no concept of hygiene (which Indians at least have despite their conditions)

>>2616104
In military camps, latrines would often be found right next to the place where people ate, for practicality.

It is a meme, the only sources I have seen are a renaissance quack doctor and the number of times Queen Victoria had a bath. Agricultural laborers had to wash at the end of the day by default and they composed ~90% of the population. Soap was big business in medieval Europe. They would also wash clothes frequently.

>>2616115
In the Balkans they did it on holidays, luckily we have a lot of those.

>>2616095
>he doesn't relish the pungent smell of a woman's sex and asshole

Do you honestly think a woman wouldn't care about something like that no matter what age?

>>2616167
>pungent

lad she would've smelled like dung, rotten food particles, piss, sweat and god knows what other shit they were embroiled in

plus she would no doubt have had shit like worms, skin diseases and STDs

>>2616147
That's because you are a dirty fucking slav who only washes when the rain catches him in the field.

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>>2616189

Its a half meme. Hygiene was certainly lacking, but more in an infrastructural sense and in conjuction with the close habitation of domesticated animals. This is what made things Smell. Personal hygiene wasnt all that terrible. People were able to wash themselves, with water soaked rags and sponges. Their limited fresh water supplies simply didn't warrant bathing though, they needed it for cooking and drinking.

People washed but not often.

Fresh water could have been heated under a stove and then poured into a barel.

Soap and oils were widely available in the ancient world and must have been also for the middle ages (at least for the burghers and nobles)

Also don't ask please where they got the fresh water from. There is almost no large permanent human settlement on earth without a steady supply of fresh water.

>>2616095
The cities smelled like shit because they were full of animals and had shitty plumbing.

>>2616095
>disease everywhere
>shitty tasteless non-nutritious food leading to hundreds of conditions
>bad housing & weak clothing against the elements
>horrific dental hygiene
>no makeup for 90% of the peasantry so all the women over 18 looked like ugly hags and witches

the smell would be the least of your problems

>>2616146
>Agricultural laborers had to wash at the end of the day by default

Why would they "have to?"

>>2616347
because the Knights demanded they wash their wives and daughters before they used them

>>2616146
This.

The whole meme of Europeans not bathing in the "dark ages" is completely retarded.

The Roman tradition of public bathhouses continued in the former empire and spread elsewhere.

Medieval Europe literally had giant soap factories to satisfy the demand for soap.

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-science-technology-and-medicine/history-science/the-history-soapmaking

What about brushing their teeth? I would not kiss a qt 18 yo virgin peasant girl if she had yellow and rotten teeth

Good question on teeth.

I am really interested how they solved or not that problem.

>>2616345
>woman without make-up looks like witches
Let me see, you are British?

>>2616927
Italian

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>medieval waifu
>not wanting a late 19th century waifu in a french countryside village

pleb

>>2616940
>french

enjoy syphilis

>>2616190
Kek'd

>>2616889
>>2616926
They didn't have sugar as accessible, and that's the #1 cause of tooth decay.

If she was rich and chubby she might have tooth decay, but a peasant eating bread six days a week probably had some pretty pearly chompers.

Did they brush teeth with something or was concept meaningless?