Todays Sunday's Honey is our legendary Highlander. Have you ever asked yourself what makes a man more appealing wearing layers of clothing that probably haven't been washed in a dog's age, hair that could probably contain enough grease to fry eggs in and breath that smells like the ripest sewerage in the dog days of summer. Maybe we need ask our heroine's.
Personally if it wasn't for the filth that you know is attached with the ages of long ago I would be just as week kneed and swooning as the next woman. The style of clothing I do think would be more appealing only for the fact that the longer it takes to undress him the more we want him. So, we have to assume an air of cleanliness is attached to our hero just for the sake of romance. I would find it hard put just to look at a man that is rancid let alone have sex with him.
So my question for today is, do you ever get the creepies when reading about a hero that is disguistingly dirty while some fair young maid oogles him? Put yourself in said young maids position and let us know just close you would let our stud muffiin get to you without a good soak in the nearest burn.
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Girl, your description was most vivid. All I can say is.... ewwww... I can't remember which book it was, but the heroine was very adamant about the cleanliness of her husband and all the people in his keep. She promised them all new plaids if they took a bath. Some grumbled but slowly the women started to take their baths and get their new plaids and then they went home, smelled their smelly husbands and refused to provide any entertainment until the men, too, had taken their baths! LOL!! I will choose this heroine as my hero :D
PS. you are doing an excellent job with this blog. Keep up the fun, and excitement!! (((terra)))
Gross!
If he was an honorable man and had looks to kill, I may not mind! I would have to be his only choice of a woman. That would help me make me special. If he cared for me enough, he would become cleanly. Please enter me in your delightful book drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
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What a great post! All the books I've read make a point of saying how clean the hero is, how nice he smells, of cologne and soap and fresh linen. I can't think of any where the hero actually stinks and the heroine likes it. I certainly wouldn't like it, and wouldn't care to read about it, either.
Of course, our sensibilities are not the same as those in times past. In a great book, "The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History" by Katherine Ashenburg, a history of cleanliness in the western world from Roman times, and a funny book, she says that the Romans, with their baths, were cleaner than Europeans were in the Middle Ages. Cleaning with water came to be seen as evil, and only started to come back into favor about 200 years ago.
She also likens cleanliness to the almost omnipresent cigarette smoke in the '70's. Most people didn't notice it because it was all over. Applied to cleanliness, when everybody stinks, no one does because you're used to it.
As for our Highlander, his heroine probably stank as much as he did. And I'm sure they had a grand old time anyway.
This is such an interesting and funny post. Whenever I read a historical romance you know just from reading that the heroes had to stink some of the time. When they are out fighting for days or out practicing with the men all day. And it makes you wonder if you lived in those days would you still find them sexy dirty and all?
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