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The crime is being attractive. The sentence is DEATH (lemmy.world)

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dang, what a world when taking a bath once a week, and occasionally changing your clothes was the height of attractiveness, effective enough to undermine the chastity of wives. The husbands must have been some sticky, slovenly bastards.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

They most likely just washed themselves with wet rags on the other days. There was no running water back then, remember?