Comments on: i steam, you steam, we all steam for ice and steam

By: garlictoastbrot

garlictoastbrot — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:09:43 +0000

Hot DAMN I miss German saunas and freie Koerperkultur! When the sauna duder whips up that wall of hot air and it hits you — you’re right, it’s like a tingle, an all over immediate hot hot chill that sends out a tide of sweat from every pore all at once. So. Good.

Sigh. Damn US and its lack of good cheap saunas and proliferation of puritanical modesty.

By: clickclackgorilla

clickclackgorilla — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:15:19 +0000

Tarentola: We don’t have a car. Is it decently reachable with public transport? Will have to check it out. Looks very fancy.

By: Tarentola

Tarentola — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:35:08 +0000

Since you seem go go in “Mainz” into the Taubertsbergbad you might wanna try the “Rhein-Main-Therme” in Hofheim. Just some 20 minutes by car and far better in my view. People are nice and the sauna/spa is better.

Been in both and visit only one of the two now

By: Moonwaves

Moonwaves — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:10:28 +0000

I’m the exact opposite of you, I think. I love the sauna as well and don’t really have any problems walking around naked in front of strangers. But walking around naked in front of friends or, even worse, bumping into a colleague while walking around naked is something I’m not keen on. One might even wonder if I have intimacy issues.

I do find that the walking around naked part is helped to a certain extent by the fact that I have no glasse on for most of it (although I love the little glasses holders that they have outside the various sections, so pratical and handy) – even if people were staring, I wouldn’t notice. I also can’t see, for example, my own legs clearly so there’s not much worrying about whether there’s hair to be seen or not (them being the only bit of me I do occasionally de-hair).

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:06:04 +0000

oh yes, the prudish notions…

everything in me thinks that going to a sauna would be so awesome that I can’t believe I haven’t been to one in my 33 years (it helps that I don’t think there are any in Uruguay).

then again, even if there were, those prudish notions… worse than ever since I lived for two years in the US…

ah…

what I wouldn’t give to feel superhero-ish for a while

By: Expat Life: German Sauna Culture | Young Germany

Expat Life: German Sauna Culture | Young Germany — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:26:49 +0000

[...] post was originally published at Click Clack Gorilla. If you’d like to read more about German sauna culture, check out Resident on Earth’s [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:34:37 +0000

Awesome post..!

The first time I went to a German sauna was in Wiesbaden with my friend, his mom, and her boyfriend. Before leaving for the facility, his mom needed to confirm I really knew what I was in for and solemnly asked me “At this place, I will be naked, will you die?”

Honestly though, I can’t see how anybody couldn’t warm to the experience once you have the chance to get over yourself and your whatever prudish notions you were brought up with. It took just once for myself and my wife. The really cool facilities are works of art and have so many options, mist saunas, indoor and outdoor joined pools, different temperature baths, mineral baths, quiet rooms, sauna duders.. and you’re right, you feel like a million bucks after! (I usually feel super wasted too though)

Two summers ago I got to experience a sauna in Sweden, the sauna was connected via wooden dock to the lake 20 steps away. We would heat up (and booze up!) in the sauna and then jump out and dive off the nearby dock into the lake. At that time of the year the sun doesn’t set in the evening, too.. so we sauna’d in the perpetual dusk for hours – it was magical.

I am so looking forward to going again – do you know if they generally allow babies into the facilities?

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:47:38 +0000

I was born to this whole naked-in-the-sauna concept, so can only nod my head And my fingers and toes stay frozen through the winter – often cold even in summer – so I’m with you on the awesomeness of sauna!

By: clickclackgorilla

clickclackgorilla — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:34:37 +0000

Yeah, the entire sauna area is co-ed, changing rooms included.

FVM: There must be some saunas out your way, what with all the norwegian/scandanavian immigration that happened in that area back in the day, the question is where, and if they are as awesome and affordable as the ones here.

Paula: Dark as it may be, I kind of love your sister’s words.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:26:56 +0000

I love saunas too, but I’ve never heard of one where there was nudity in the co-ed areas! :O