How in Sauna?

In Germany, Switzerland and Austria its normal to be complete naked in Sauna. How is it in other countries?

At most mainstream Gyms / Health clubs in the UK the sauna and steam rooms are mixed and you are required to wear swimwear. At my current club the sauna, steam room, and spa pool are alongside the main swimming pool and the children's pool, and so you are required to wear swimwear.

For me, most saunas are at massage spas or in an inner area of a men's locker room. So I'm usually nude or wrapped in a towel.

@Dr_Philip, it's the same at my gym, the sauna and steam room are beside the swimming pool so you're required to go in both in your swimwear.

When I was on holiday in Switzerland a few years back, there was a spa at the hotel and we both went in our swimwear the first time as that was what we were use to. When we'd come out and were relaxing on the beds, another couple came in and stripped nude and went in and so we did the same the next time. It felt really relaxing to be both sitting there getting our pores cleansed as nature intended.

Clothed. I usually wear swimwear because I usually go into the hot tub after but if I am rushed and have to skip the hot tube I go into the sauna in sweats.

Workout shorts or bathing suit. Never nude.

Naked where I go.

I have been to sauna only once. It wasn't in a gym but in a spa. In December last year I had my first full body massage experience in a spa. After the massage I had to use sauna. I was just in underwear for my massage. So in attached sauna cubicle too, I just entered the in my underwear. The cubicle door was made of frosted glass but the therapist was there outside the door preparing for next session.

But all this was doable because it was happening in a closed private room and not in a common area

I am from Germany, in holiday in Italy and Danmark you have to wear bathing suit.

In France it is often with a bathing suit but is is easy to find sauna that is possible to be naked.

At my gym in Spain the steam room is in the locker room. Some men wear trunks, some wrap a towel around their waist and some are fully nude.

At my gym in San Diego, CA the wet steam room and the dry sauna are located within the respective locker room for each sex. It’s a mixed bag of guys who wrap a towel around the middle or just sit on the towel. It’s the same as to whether they have a towel around the middle when walking around the locker room or enjoying the freedom of nudity.

On holiday in south Tirol (an often German-speaking part of Italy) we were naked in the wellness area (sauna, hot and cold tubs) whilst the British and Irish were all wearing swimmies.

Peer pressure kept the Brits in their swimmies most of the holiday but we did notice one couple swapped to nude after seeing us.

Ironically we’re British too, have just spent decades in Germany. ?

Back in the early 80's when I started going to the gyms guys were less modest. One gym had a whirlpool and sauna in the locker room wet area. I would say that about 70% of the time the guys were all nude. There was an occasional erection, but nobody cared that I was aware of. The shower room was in the same area.

Jump ahead to today. The gym I now go to has a sauna in the men's shower area. It used to be a steam room, but was converted to sauna I believe because it kept breaking down. There is a communal whirlpool, sauna, and pool for use by both sexes. In the communal area suits are required.

I use the sauna in the men's locker room. I am nude and sit on a towel. Often times other guys will come in wearing their gym clothes including shoes and start stretching. I have been in there with 4 other guys who have varying amounts of clothing on. This could be sweats and shoes to a pair of gm shorts. Other times I am in the sauna by myself or with up to 5 other guys all nude. Nothing sexual is going on. Often it is a mixed group of clothed and unclothed. In my opinion if a guy is uncomfortable with the nudity then he has the option of going to the other sauna that is coed and everyone is clothed.

Being retired I go to the gym in the morning both weekdays and weekends. Generally the crowd when I go is in their 50's, 60's and 70's. This group is not that modest. It is the guys in their 40's and younger that tend to be clothed in the sauna. Of course there are exceptions to this. I have noticed that older guys are less modest going between the showers an locker room. They will walk nude whereas the younger guys often wrap a towel around themselves. Perhaps it has to do with the amount of group showers a generation was exposed to in school.

To answer the original question - in the USA if its coed you have to have a suit on, but customs may vary in local gyms across the country.

About fifteen years ago my husband and I stayed in a hotel (in the US) that had a sauna. We were in there alone in the middle of the night after a long day on vacation sitting naked on the wooden benches and we each decided to masturbate. It was very hot in there. We were both sweating profusely. We both had delicious orgasms and I remember my husband saying that when he was stroking his penis as he was ejaculating, his spurting semen felt COOLER on his skin than the surrounding air.

About fifteen years ago my husband and I stayed in a hotel (in the US) that had a sauna. We were in there alone in the middle of the night after a long day on vacation sitting naked on the wooden benches and we each decided to masturbate. It was very hot in there. We were both sweating profusely. We both had delicious orgasms and I remember my husband saying that when he was stroking his penis as he was ejaculating, his spurting semen felt COOLER on his skin than the surrounding air.

Was it Motel 6 inches?

I belong to the local "Y"and most women are naked sitting on their towel but a few keep their towel wrapped around them.

Most of the saunas I have been in were single sex and the men were sitting on their towels.... However, at my indoor tennis club there was a coed sauna. Everyone was wrapped in a towel. There was one time when I was playing with a female friend and we were the last Tewa that night. We had about 10 minutes of nude sauna time before we heard that we had 10 minutes to be out of the building, but it was a wonderful ten minutes....

I live in a country that has nudist beaches, but get sniffy at nude saunas so I have to wear a bikini which is horrible and clings to my wet skin.

I like sauna, and when you leave it and jump at a cool pool its even better, I think its the only way for me to like cold water.....

In serbia it is unthinkable to be naked in a sauna, always shorts or swimsuits and a towel, it is too big to be naked in front of others.

Prior to Covid-19, the wet steam room and dry sauna were available at my gym. Each locker room has its own so clothing optional is optional. Most guys go with a wrapped towel and then sit on it and open it up. Stretching in the dry sauna happens on occasion. It’s a very brief form of hot yoga, warning up the muscles although there are a couple of guys who do prolonged stretching in the warm environment. Since Covid-19, the showers are available, we have private outdoor showers and they transformed the gym to outdoors. The San Diego weather is perfect for out door exercising.

I saw this document about the German sauna culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0NINJOuaf4

In Canada unless its a private sauna . We are prudish in Canada and it seems we need to be clothed as not to offend .

Down here in Texas, we have a different word for saunas--we call them "Summer". Clothes are mandatory for safety reasons. We work hard in 100+ heat all day, working up a dirty salty sweat, anxious for the opportunity to shower it all off. Then we don our swimming trunks and go back outside to relax some more in the heat before jumping into the pool or pond to cool ourselves off again. Any skinny dipping we do is done privately.

When we want a dry sauna, we go to Monahans. When we want a wet sauna, we go to Houston.

There are some people who have to work in air conditioned buildings whose only exposure to the Texas sauna is the walk from their home or employment to their air conditioned pickup trucks or cars.

Now a german-style sauna sounds great! I wish we had facilities like that here in Texas.

I used to go to a (mixed) sauna / steam room at the public swimming baths, swimming trunks or shorts were required, but once I had experienced the freedom of being naked in the local gay sauna i would never want to go back to wearing anything to sauna / steam

I love being Nude in The Steam room Sauna can't wait to go Back after this pandemic Wa State

Sitting on a towel for common sense reasons, but wrapping it around the waist happens. I prefer towel for sitting only.

In the Netherlands sauna’s are mostly nude. But the amount of prudish people is growing. Many sauna’s offer now textile hours.

@carolineq : Thank for your youtube link. This video explaines perfect why I love to visit my sauna only nude. We often go to a swiss sauna parc too, and we are lucky nudity is also normal than in germany.

Many years ago we were with another couple, and was the first time for the girl. She was uncomfortable beeing naked, so she kept a bikini on. Some time later she noticed, that other people starred to her, because she was the only one clothed. So she took it out and felt more comfortable now.