Both enjoy a hot tub of water or a sauna after a hard day, especially after one that hasn't gone well and one's status-stat is reading low. Most of us treat oily, musky odors with the same repugnance that we treat dirt - garlic, onions, Limburger cheese, and stale cigars. Most of our table manners are standardized rules of how not to offend your messmates by dirtying yourself. We use napkins and finger bowls to keep our person clean. Dinner wear allows you to come to the table looking your cleanest - this was once such an important ritual among the British elite that special dinner dress was taken into the field and used under the harshest extremes in jungle or desert.
Cleanliness is an indication of station.
As conservationists we decry the horrible waste of water, yet spend hundreds of gallons a week flushing our excrement, keeping clean, and washing and rewashing the body scents from our clothes. We fear that dirty clothes and dirty bodies are common indicators of social dirtiness. The establishment's attitudes toward those who do not participate in this social ritual are particularly hostile, even more than toward uncropped hair or profuse ornamentation. Yet while dirt is an important theme in our social values about appearances and smells, there is one thing far worse - excrement.