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[-] McArthur@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago

What is the... Acorn? In Russia

[-] ovec@lemmy.wtf 63 points 9 months ago

That means the head of your dick must be visible.

[-] mayidar@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago
[-] Bonje@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

An ice cream cone? To comedically place it between your privates and the camera?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

That's the international symbol for "Circumcised dicks only"

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[-] garden_boi@feddit.de 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For most mixed-gender public saunas in Finland though, bathing clothes are mandatory and nudity is prohibited. Also, nobody cares that much what you are wearing ~~and you can wear your swimsuit to a single gender sauna, too, if it makes you feel comfortable.~~

This is quite opposite to Germany, where regular sauna goers might very well tell you that clothes are prohibited and that they "pose a hygiene problem". I even heard people saying stuff like "This is a Finnish sauna, you don't wear clothes here!" in a German mixed gender sauna. Well, the opposite is true for a mixed gender sauna in Finland 🤷🏼.

Edit: My experience is limited, so I guess I was wrong about wearing bathsuits to single-gender saunas. Thanks for pointing that out @kadotux@lemmings.world !

[-] kadotux@lemmings.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Jaa mitähän ihmettä? I've been to many public saunas in Finland and almost all of them, if not all, prohibit the use of swimsuit/-pants. At least the ones that are in public pools/swimming halls. And the reasoning being as you said, hygiene.

Edit: whoops my bad, you were talking about mixed gender Saunas. You might be correct after all

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[-] Axiochus@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Can confirm re: Germany. It's often explicitly framed as a hygiene issue. That said, there are saunas where you may wear stuff, it's usually designated. Plus you have "women only days" in a good number of public saunas.

In Russia it's also common to eat dried fish and drink beer/sometimes vodka in the room next to the sauna.

[-] bort@feddit.de 22 points 9 months ago

In Germany it's often framed as a hygiene issue, because that's easier to sell to randos. The real issue it that it's uncomfortable to be nude when there are clothed people all around you. And the sauna itself is more comfortable when nude.

It's kina like a prisoners delemma, where the pareto solution is when everyone else is nude, and the nash-equlibrium is when everyone is clothed. Because of this, some people will want to defect (i.e. wear clothes), so we need to apply outside pressure to enforce the pareto-efficient solution (i.e. by asking people to remove their clothes).

[-] Axiochus@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Hmmm, in my experience the discomfort goes away quickly and you stop caring about your own or other people's genitalia, or lack thereof, in plain view. But I appreciate the game theory approach 😺 Given the nonrationality of many social things, I'd wager that it's just a convention whose true meaning matters less than the fact that "it is the way it is".

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[-] notepass@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago

Sometimes there are also men-only days. Tho they kinda suck.

Woman only day:

  • Start with a sparkling wine
  • Get a few skincare things for the sauna
  • Nice smelling infusion
  • A bit of after-care program in the water

Man only day:

  • We put FUCKING BEER on the hot stone and add some BBQ scent. FUCK YEAH, MANLY.

I wish man only days where also a bit more "care" focused instead :(

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[-] sab@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A swimsuit is quite common in Norway. Basically you ask yourself the question "am I going to make anyone uncomfortable". If it's single gender and people are not extremely shy, you generally go with only a towel, but nobody is really going to care. If you're a gender mixed group of friends that don't know each other that well, you might prefer putting on a swimsuit in order to make sure people feel comfortable and included.

From my experience the Swedes are the same.

This is based on private saunas with friends. In public mixed gender saunas I don't think I've seen anyone go naked, but I'm sure certain Finnish tourists would and nobody would mind.

[-] DrM@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

Can confirm the german part: In my gym there recently was an outrage because a Muslim member went to the Sauna with bathing clothes multiple times, which in the end resulted in his contract being terminated. Being naked in the sauna is almost the law here (but in the end nobody cares if you wear your towel or put it below you. Just remember: No sweat on wood!)

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

And Great Britain should be orange. Everywhere here would be 100% fine with you wearing a bikini or swimming shorts in a sauna as long as you aren't completely nude.

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[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago

Posting Reddit links to lemmy feels wrong

[-] wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Not only wrong - I can't look at the image without turning off my vpn

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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 9 months ago

Why not just upload the image to Lemmy as you make the post

[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

In my experience, the U.K. doesn't do nudity in saunas - or anywhere else.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago
[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 29 points 9 months ago

With the lights off.

[-] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 18 points 9 months ago

You need a license for that.

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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

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.

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[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What is the allowed yellow icon? Beanie and diapers?

[-] Balkonmoebel@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago
[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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" Aussie

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[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

So your scalp is more private than your privates? Fascinating

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[-] popcorp@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 months ago

In Czech Republic & Slovakia it is usually a towel to sit on & being naked. Optionally you can wrap yourself in a larger towel or something like that. Most people respect it, but I did experience one woman being told to not wear swimming suit or leave the sauna area.

How is it in Denmark? I've seen beautiful saunas there, where you just jump to the sea to cool down. I NEED TO KNOW!

[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

In Finland people are told to not wear swimsuits to sauna not because you absolutely have to be naked but because if you've been in a chlorinated pool the chemicals vaporize in the sauna and are harmful to breathe.

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[-] Gordon@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

What's going on in Russia and Latvia? What does that symbol mean?

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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

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.

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[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago
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[-] watersnipje 7 points 9 months ago

Did I miss something, did Iceland secede from Europe?

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