I layed in bed last night, tossing and turning and thinking about the days events, and kept coming back to this thread. It dawned on me that there may be an even deeper seeded reason for the origin of the belief..."No bathing for 30 days after childbirth for fear of becoming ill".

Way back before there was ever any such thing as birth control...maybe the Chinese woman found that if she didn't bathe for a while after giving birth, the husband would think her too frail and, quite possibly, too smelly/disgusting to have sex with...and therefore the woman could be guaranteed to not conceive again immediately...which would give her the well deserved rest she so sought! Now...I'm not making a joke here...because I know that in the Chinese culture, the women would never want to say NO to their husbands or deny them anything in any respect of the marital contract. So...in order for it to be HIS decision to not want to have sex, she may have just made herself "unavailable" in his eyes...and nostrils!

Just a thought...What do ya think?

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