Interesting sermon - on sermonaudio.com, one of the KJB preachers spoke about the caananites.

He said, per various OT Scriptures, that the caananites' various weirdo s*x habits "defiled the land."   One thing for sure - defiled doesn't mean sanitary, nor swept.  Have been pondering, what's perv have to do with mismanaged/littered farm land?  If you ignore your fields, weeds will sprout up, but weeds aren't filthy.  Weeds come from neglect/sloth, but defilement goes beyond sleeping in till half past 10am.

The preacher went on, describing what Scripture validates - sin is no introvert.  In short, gross habits, especially, will manifest outside of the bedroom - or wherever else the weirdness is taking place.  He also spoke of the Lord warning the Israelites, that if they go weirdo, the land will also "vomit them out," as it did the caananites.  

In short, the sermon got me to thinking...we all live in a world that, at least, has been influenced by christian thoughts/habits.  So, do we have much, if any, evidence of caananite house/yard keeping habits.  Am asking, were they - even among the wealthier classes - rather prone to be sloppy?  Somewhere in the OT, the Lord provides us a glimpse of a parr-tah going on; the guys are all plastered, and the table they're sitting around, is full of vomit puddles.  Am no theologian, but i know the Lord speaks truth; He takes serious issue with people who fornicate and get drunk.  

The OT also tells the Israelites that if they touch someone with "an issue" (an infection) to take a bath and wash their clothing.  He also tells the other Israelites to steer clear of the person, and not even sit where the man (or woman) had been sitting.  Yeah, i get it, the Lord is big on separation, but what i don't get is:  didn't the egyptians and the caananites (and other pagan cultures at the time) know that when someone issues a cough or a sneeze in your direction ...?  Yeah, they didn't have microscopes back then, but they did have social experience - old folks, who learned basic stuff from their parents, who learned from their parents...ya know, when someone im the family gets the runs, the whole house ends up running too.

So, why did the Lord have to explain commonsense cleanliness, in a rather repetitive manner, that you'd expect coming  from a parent or teacher to a group of not-real-bright five year-olds?

Can only conclude, the Word is truth - that ungodly lifestyles do in fact dumb people down - so far down, that remotely passable cleanliness becomes way out of the picture.