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Pheromones and hormones.
May. 31st, 2011 07:26 pmPuberty brings along certain odours, most of them not very pleasant.
Nearly all of our students are carrying deodorant with them and some of those who are in desperate need of a wash use it as a cover-up. Half the time they use the stuff inappropriately, like in the classroom to mask the smell of someone - allegedly - farting. And of course, one quick spray isn't enough and three girls and two boys get out their cans. When you mix five different kinds of deodorants, you get lots of aerosols flying around and the smell vacillates between all perfumes known to mankind and becomes ultimately vomit-inducingly sweet.
Or a play fight between boys and girls - that's how they make contact with the opposite sex - turns into assault with spray-on deodorant resulting in breathing difficulties and a crying fit.
I blame the advertising media.
Banning the use of spray-on deodorant outside the washrooms has been met with outrage.
At least they haven't found out yet that there are other things you can do with those cans, like inhaling the aerosols to get high or burning your skin, which one class did some years ago until several of them had festering sores on the backs of their hands.
Nearly all of our students are carrying deodorant with them and some of those who are in desperate need of a wash use it as a cover-up. Half the time they use the stuff inappropriately, like in the classroom to mask the smell of someone - allegedly - farting. And of course, one quick spray isn't enough and three girls and two boys get out their cans. When you mix five different kinds of deodorants, you get lots of aerosols flying around and the smell vacillates between all perfumes known to mankind and becomes ultimately vomit-inducingly sweet.
Or a play fight between boys and girls - that's how they make contact with the opposite sex - turns into assault with spray-on deodorant resulting in breathing difficulties and a crying fit.
I blame the advertising media.
Banning the use of spray-on deodorant outside the washrooms has been met with outrage.
At least they haven't found out yet that there are other things you can do with those cans, like inhaling the aerosols to get high or burning your skin, which one class did some years ago until several of them had festering sores on the backs of their hands.
