“If you live on a farm, you don’t have to take showers,” Charlie Hurt said on The Five, prompting substantial pushback.
Fox News contributor and Washington Times opinion editor Charlie Hurt was back on The Five Friday with another weird take: Showers “are terrible,” and not even farmers have to take them.
The discussion was centered around a New York Post story published Thursday that called attention to how some experts consider daily showers more of a social construct rooted out of the opinions of others than a personal necessity for one’s skin. One environmentalist, for instance, told the BBC this week that showers are more popular than ever “because we’re afraid somebody else will tell us that we’re smelling.”
The Post also cited a Manhattan dermatologist who warned that prolonged, daily showers could damage the “skin’s microbiome,” which not only protects the skin but is “extremely important in overall health of the body.”
This article was originally published on The Daily Beast and partially republished here, with permission.
