Is there something special about having sex in a sauna? With all that heat, wouldn't it be uncomfortable to even breathe heavily? You can cook your lungs by breathing too heavily in a sauna.

I just like saunas with no sex. Just so happens this one is owned by a sex club. One of 3 in our village. Me I just enjoy sweating for 30 minutes and jumping into the cold shower - much better than sex. My point is that it is private and you do not have to share it with people you do not know.
Pure health. Honest. Been married for 10 years :-)

Hmm... wonder how much it costs to rent for 5 minutes? Should give me time to finish, get dressed, and get out of there...

When telling people the difference between Saunas on the Insel and those in continental Europe I compare two signs.
The first one hung outside the mixed sauna in my gym (Fitness First) in London and was clearly for the benefit of the numerous Europeans working in the City of London.

"Attention! At all times , bathing costumes are to be worn in the Wellness Area"

and the translation of the sign that hang outside the mixed wellness area of my fitness studio Elixia in Munich

"Attention! At no time are bathing costumes to be worn in the Wellness Area"

The dodgy sentence structure is my fault to highlight the difference in the signs, but this was pretty much what they said.

Saunas are definitely good for the immune system if used properly. You can spend some time in a Wellness Area if you relax between Saunas. This is best if they have access to the outside.

@ Nicky
Going in a sauna if you have a cold in my experience is a bad idea. Never gets rid of it, rather just makes it worse. Go in when you are healthy to boost your immune system to stop you getting colds.



The British are definitely prudish when it comes to saunas. Firstly, if there is a swimming area I would rather not have someone bring in a load of chlorine from the pool with them for me to breath so naked makes sense.

If I find myself in a sauna with a hot young girl in there I am a lot less likely to be checking her out than if I were to see her well dressed on the street or in a bar. Saunas are clinical rather than erotic. They are also damn hot. People are usually too busy relaxing / meditating to be eyeing up the opposite (or same) sex. The way to be conspicious and have people stare at you in a european sauna is to walk in with your swimsuit or bikini on. I would feel more uneasy like that than I would naked.

I guess I don't get what the big deal is. It's just a body after all.

Haha your not going to be your age for ever. Sooner or later your gonna get crusty and yer bits will tend to hang. Spose that's when you'd hope a strapping lad/lass would walk in and let their bits hang out.

Go on give em a treat

@Shove,

Aw come on Shove, you have a great body, jeez I'd be willing to bare it all too if I wouldn't put guys like Richdog off.

I hear ya old fox!!

I really hate naked saunas. You are either mortified by some really old people, or made... uncomfortable, by some hot young thing... However I almost always end up around these places with clients and just find it unprofessionall to go around naked with them. The naked thing should be optional, not compulsory.

I'm not mortified by the sight of old people's naked bodies, but I'm disconcerted by some middleaged or youngish guy displaying it all obviously, more spreadeagled than a self-respecting eagle, hoping you'd check him out and you can't help but eye him briefly and hate yourself for it.

I agree it seems 'unprofessional' going around nude with your clients. Same feeling with friends, colleagues and acquaintances. With strangers, it's no skin off my nose.

It's a strange world where people will throw good money after bad in strip clubs but the very same people probably blush at the thought of nudity in a sauna.

Personally I don't care much for either, with or without nudity.

I don't have a problem going into a sauna in the buff at all and other peoples bodies (young and nubile or old and decrepit) don't bother me at all.

What I can't understand (and somebody mentioned it in an early post) is the hygiene issue with wearing a swimming costume. This is the reason I have been given by regular sauna users that it isn't hygienic to go into a sauna wearing a bikini or swimming trunks, etc.

How can this be more hygienic than sitting on the same bit of seat that someone has already sat down before with a less than spotless botty? Sounds a bit bleugh, I know, but this thought alone makes me sneak a towel in there and sit on that.

I'm with Argus. I hate being alone in the sauna and having some guy sit right next to me, open his towel and let it all hang out. Then you get the guys that look around or worse - try to start up a conversation with you.

At one hotel there was a group of middle-aged gentlemen who positioned their chairs to look directly at the sauna door and started ordering drinks

Austrians are the worst for sauna etiquette. Bending over in front of you and lying legs open seem to be the norm.

I think the hygiene issue comes from wearing your bathers in the sauna and then jumping in the pool. Even after a shower there has still been a hot and sweaty piece of fabric stuck to your crutch while you sweated it out. Yuk.

The Zuger Badi's had a hygiene crackdown last summer for mainly young lads that would wear their swim shorts all day under their clothes and then jump in the pool/lake, dry-off and continue wearing their swim shorts. Little kids without nappies were also asked to get one on quick smart or leave.

That just made me guffaw.

Did they expect you to admire their crack or kick their butt, I wonder?

What could be very embarrassing is when a beautiful woman (or two) walk in, like what happened at Schinznach Bad one time. I had to very carefully walk to the showers, trying to focus my mind on some math problems, lest my reflexes kick in before I get to the shower.

ohh ... what reflexes Phos?

Same problem with me ... normally when that happens, I try to think of some obscure calculus .... and make a run for the showers..

I've never seen a sauna that allowed anyone to go into the sauna room without a towel to sit on and if you don't sit on the towel you were given before entering everyone already in the sauna will loudly point out to you the purpose of the towel.

According to popular legend, the famous mathematician Richard Feynmann used to visit strip clubs and returned home with notebooks full of advanced calculus. He sold it to his wife by telling her it helped him relax and concentrate on the problem. Unfortunately my calculus nisn't good enough to convince my GF.

so then why can't i sit on my towel in my swim suit and then shower before entering the pool if hygiene is the issue - I don't see the hygiene issue really if you have to sit on a towel, and if you shower after the sauna before going into the pool when naked then I am sure you can shower just as effectively in a swim suit before entering the pool

One thing i find quite odd and others have touched on this is the sauna at a work place, i used to get free access to my husbands work place gym and decided to go in the sauna after a swim the first time i went, i soon realised my mistake when i was sat there in my bathing costume (on a towel) and a woman walked in naked - i quickly exited and didn't go in again, but I don't work there so no embarrassing issues but do people really sit hot sweaty and naked beside their work colleagues?? I really would not want a work mate to see my starkers or see them starkers - and I don't think they'd want to see me starkers either....

Nicky