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A survey on “physical concerns,” conducted online by Cross Marketing in July 2026 among 3,000 men nationwide aged 20 to 79, became a hot topic on 5ch’s News Express+ board. The findings highlighted worries not just about thinning hair, but also about body odor and age-related odor, and the thread lit up with talk of favorite body soap brands, accounts of scalp odor suddenly getting worse with age, and observations that people often can’t detect their own smell — with users swapping tips on countermeasure products.
Worried about thinning hair, but… body odor too!? “Men’s physical concerns” vary by age — we asked 3,000 men aged 20-79 for their honest opinions | Maidona News
2026.09.22 (Tue)
Between work stress, relationship stress, lack of exercise, and poor sleep, many men living in modern society carry physical discomforts and worries. The “Survey on Physical Concerns (2026): Men’s Edition,” conducted by market research firm Cross Marketing Inc. (Shinjuku, Tokyo), surveyed 3,000 men nationwide aged 20 to 79 online in July 2026.
Source: maidonanews.jp / Original article here
What people said
My semen only comes out thick and gloopy now
It not feeling good anymore when I finish — that's seriously, seriously shocking
Come to think of it, I haven't seen a Reeve 21 (hair-growth treatment brand) commercial lately
That technique where they wrap several strands around one of your real hairs to make it look thicker — once the real hair grows out, does it start drooping down like a willow tree? You have to keep going back regularly to stop that happening, and once you're hooked, you end up paying for it for life — or until you finally stop caring how you look.
Japanese people are, by a huge margin, the most self-conscious about baldness of any nation on Earth, which is exactly why the anti-balding industry rakes it in here
Lately my semen's been watery. Wonder if that's some kind of illness
No chance. You'll understand once you're older
Don't sweat the smell. Just be natural. Don't fight aging
The foaming body soap from Cow Brand (Gyunyu Sekken) — I've been washing not just my body but my face and hair with it for years now, zero skin trouble
The smell isn't the soap's fault. It's your fault
Damn, you could go work at USJ without any makeup now (Universal Studios Japan is famous for its zombie actors during Halloween)
If you wipe the sweat from wherever's causing it and bring it right up to your nose, sometimes you can actually tell
No you can't. Your own nose is used to it — other people notice precisely because theirs isn't
Yeah, true. My head reeks after work. Wish there was a spray or some product you could use during the day to deal with it
Use the Muji head scrub
Same — about a month ago my scalp odor suddenly got intense too. Even washing with kakishibu (persimmon tannin, a traditional deodorizer) doesn't touch it
If a normal guy shaves his head, he just ends up looking like a thug
That's the weird part — smelling murderously bad and not even noticing it yourself
– Sweat it out
– Brush your teeth and your tongue (get a dedicated tongue brush)
– Soap behind your ears
A walk followed by a bath is my recommendation. Bad-breath countermeasures double as body-odor countermeasures.
And finally: age-related odor countermeasures. The most important one.
If you've done all that and it's still no good, well, nothing more to be done.
If you just need a quick fix, there's the brute-force move of spraying yourself with alcohol. Stings like hell if you've got any cuts though
Correction: gray hairs coming in
Hosokawa Takashi hated that so much he kept shaving it, and that's how he ended up with that hairstyle. FUJIWARA's Haranishi has totally white sides too — sometimes he just trims the sides short.
Even so, I've never once been told I smell. As long as you wash your clothes properly, body odor is basically a rounding error
Sounds like a homeless-person smell
Background and Talking Points
The survey was conducted online by Cross Marketing in July 2026, targeting 3,000 men nationwide aged 20 to 79. In the thread, mentions of body odor and age-related odor outnumbered those of thinning hair, and the discussion turned into an exchange of tips on countermeasure products and body soap brands. At the same time, several posters made the experiential point that “it’s hard to notice your own smell,” so the thread ended up centered more on personal anecdotes than on the survey results themselves. Note that the original article presents a “ranking of concern types,” and the thread’s personal accounts don’t guarantee any scientific effectiveness for the remedies discussed. The scale of the balding/wig industry and individual variation in countermeasures weren’t explored in depth in the thread — it stayed mostly a sharing of personal impressions.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “Worried about thinning hair, but… body odor too!? “Men’s physical concerns” vary by age — we asked 3,000 men aged 20-79 for their honest opinions.”
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