Bathing not allowed

In the “Things I wish I never learned from Wikipedia” department, I read the following about how some early Chritians viewed bathing:

“Early Christians, who thought self-abnegation (self-denial) a cardinal virtue, considered bathing, if not a vice, then a temptation. Who knows what impure thoughts might arise in a tub of warm water? With this danger in mind, St Benedict declared, ‘To those who are well, and especially to the young, bathing shall seldom be permitted.’ St. Agnes took the injunction to heart and died without ever bathing.”