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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)
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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

The "ill repute" of bath houses wasn't entirely undeserved. One factor that made people shun them in the early modern period was also the spread of syphilis which you could easily get from visiting a bath house of ill repute. Also, wood was getting more scarce due to wide spread deforestation. And that bath houses needed a lot of wood.