/lit/ - Literature

>>22230849
>For example, did you know for the entire medieval ages there was a very serious belief and tradition among monks that stinking like shit was a holy ideal
Actually, yes. They viewed lice in particular as evidence of holiness iirc. Anorexia Mirabilis was also an interesting phenomenon of the time, which many prominent female Saints appear to have suffered from. They also engaged in some other unsanitary behaviors inspired by just the reasoning you described, pic rel is from Bell's "Holy Anorexia".