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In the late 16^th century, a German pastor, Salomon Schweigger, accompanied the ambassador of the HRE to Istanbul and wrote an ectensive report about his visit.
One of his examples of (perceived by him) moral superiority of Germans over Turkish culture was, that in Türkiye public baths were single gender with obligatory clothing “to avoid sexual arousal”, while back in Germany men and women were happily sharing the same bath butt naked without being sexual aroused.
So – German Freikörperkultur is far older than it’s name.
What is the… Acorn? In Russia
A banya hat
So you have to be naked except for a goofy hat? That’s a hilarious mental image.
Yup. The idea is that it protects your head from overheating. You wear it so that there is a pocket of air between your head and the hat, so it’s basically insulation.
And it works! I won one at a local sauna marathon a few weeks back and you feel the difference when you take it off.
Actually, many people (or even majority) don’t wear it nowadays. It’s a protection against heat stroke, and if one doesn’t visit a steam room one will be fine, though it’s optionally even in a steam room, e.g. I never wore it.
Protecting against heat stroke potentially sounds like a good idea, but I also feel that preventing that may open you up to less obvious issues caused by being too hot for too long.
My question also
An ice cream cone? To comedically place it between your privates and the camera?
That’s the international symbol for “Circumcised dicks only”
That means the head of your dick must be visible.
In countries shaded with light blue, there are no uniform rules.
What’s going on in Russia and Latvia? What does that symbol mean?
My guesses ranged from hat, to acorn, to boob cap. Thing is I wouldn’t put all of those past Russia
I think its a towel on a head?
Feel free to scrape your sagging scrotum along the floor, or hell bend over at the worst possible moment and show us all your grey squirrel roadkill anus, but for the love of the gods please put a towel down before you go sit on stuff.
People who don’t put a towel down should be shot.
Agreed. I don’t need the sweat infused into the wood and me sitting on top.
There may be rules to shower beforehand but some will forget to choose to ignore it.
What is the allowed yellow icon? Beanie and diapers?
Sauna hat.
https://finnmarksauna.com/en-us/blogs/sauna-news/sauna-hats-why-you-should-wear-one
So I was half right. Sounds like an Onion story.
What about the diapers? I was joking initially but now all bets are off.
Signed,
“Uncultured” AussieA sauna hat is great if you’re bald. Even if or especially if you like a scorching hot sauna.
The map doesn’t say you may wear a hat, it says you must wear a hat and otherwise be naked (apart from the diapers or whatever is).
No, the map says “Sauna-Dresscode für Europa.”
Am talking about Russia and Latvia.
Your Denmark doesn’t have a dresscode according to this. I suppose even a gimp mask would be OK.
I doubt that the hat is mandatory in Russia or Latvia, but it makes more sense there, because they run high temperatures.
No, there’s no official dresscode on this in Denmark, however each place usually show their rules on signs. There’s no rule against a gimp mask, but it might conflict with other rules.
The entire chart is actually a bit misleading, because the Finnish sauna is completely different from the German. The way they’re used aren’t comparable.
In Denmark it was first imported from Finland in the 1970s where people built saunas at home. Most of these are gone by now, because it’s a waste of space in a family house if the family don’t use it. The public pools usually have Finnish saunas, but at too low temperature. Wellness places try to make it better with higher temperatures but at the same time they’ve introduced a lot of the German rituals instead of the Finnish. More recently it has become popular to have winter bathing clubs. They usually buy Canadian barrel saunas. So that’s why the danish sauna situation is a cultural clusterfuck.
So your scalp is more private than your privates? Fascinating
it’s mainly Russia so I guess it’s a gallon of moonshine
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That’s so weird. How can you be naked in front of strangers?
What a strange question
By not wearing any cloths.
Sorry for the downvotes. To be able to be naked in front of strangers you need to be able to appreciate yourself, your body and your sexuality and you must be able to give yourself a feeling of security. If any of these points are lacking – as with most people – clothing will help you to compensate this lack.
Weird and counterintuitive as it might be, being naked not in front of, but together with strangers is a good way to bolster self-esteem. It can be very wholesome to experience firsthand that your body is 100 % avarage and are not body shamed despite of nudity.
If your culture has taught you to “hide your shame”, you probably can’t.
If your culture has taught you that being nude is nothing to be ashamed of, it’s as simple as breathing.
I was raised by the latter one and I cannot understand the first at all.
As the Irish comedian Dave Allen, talking about Adam and Eve, once said: “That’s what happens when you eat apples.”
Wouldn’t it be even more weird to be the only one wearing clothes?
By not caring stupid things like that. Being naked is completely natural but somehow humans developed this thought that being naked is sinful or something
Everyone has seen naked people before.
Everyone’s seen it, everyone’s done it, what’s to hide?
some people pack some really weird shit. not me mind you.
Sure, but why do they have to come out like that on Lemmy?
purple rules
In my experience, the U.K. doesn’t do nudity in saunas - or anywhere else.
Every sauna I’ve ever been in you leave your towel outside and keep your swimming costume/shorts on. Festivals are an exception lol, but UK should be blue.
My experience is that the UK is about as prudish as the USA.
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How do you reproduce?
clothes in the UK have special flaps to facilitate this
Hopefully not
You need a license for that.
With the lights off.
Not in saunas
Saunas used to be the place to give birth in Finland back in the days
I figured they just emerge from the snow
Yep, because sauna was the cleanest room in a house
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In the Netherlands towels are optional in single gender saunas, or at least you have to bring one to sit on but you don’t have to cover your self. That’s my experience with men’s saunas though. Not sure how it works in women only saunas.
I’ve never seen single gender sauna/spa there, although some have ladies only days. Usually it’s mixed and everyone is naked all the time, if they want (if it’s cold out people tend to wear their bathrobes when moving around). And you sit on a towel except in the wet saunas. Swim clothing is not allowed, except on certain days.
Did I miss something, did Iceland secede from Europe?
Nah. It melted.
Sorry…
Why isn’t Estonia covered? Saunas are like a rule here, like I haven’t lived in a place that doesn’t have a sauna in a 5km range and like every house has a sauna, even my last 3 work places had saunas. The rule here is naked with friends and family and cover all the naughty bits with strangers and coworkers.
I agree that Estonian sauna culture deserves respect. As for naughty bits covering, is there any difference between genders of friends and family and coworkers, or is one gender per sauna session the implication?
Depends on the crowd. Public saunas are usually gender segregated but for private ones it depends on who is comfortable with what but a mixed crowd is not uncommon from my experience.
In hungary from my experience you only wear the towel and no clothes. In some places they even tell you that its mandatory to take it off.
Weird, my experience in Hungary was the opposite. No one nude and I think people would have been really weirded out. This was my experience from several thermal baths in the country, although always mixed gender. Maybe if there’s single gender days it may be different.
Posting Reddit links to lemmy feels wrong
Not only wrong - I can’t look at the image without turning off my vpn
Replace www with old.
I consider it as a glorified Imgur. If you want to upload the images to catbox.moe or anything else and share the link, feel free, I would update the post!
Why not just upload the image to Lemmy as you make the post
