To not want to be naked in sauna

[lollypoppy123]

I’m going to a fancy hotel in Germany with an amazing spa but I’ve just found out the spa is textile free which means no clothes whatsoever allowed. I’m really uncomfortable with this as I’ve had a mastectomy and my reconstruction is pretty ugly. Even without that, I’d feel weird being naked with strangers.

Deviating just slightly, l was in a sauna once and some idiot man waked out and left the door open. No farts were involved in this story 😀.

Or were they...?

Maybe he was airing it out behind him!

As someone who has had a mastectomy/reconstruction I totally get you. There's no way I would be participating either.

I hate the word prudish, it's so negative. People are allowed to not be comfortable with nudity.

No textiles allowed.

@notatinydancer Towels are fine (except in steam rooms). what is not allowed is swimwear/underwear/sportswear.
And you can’t see a thing in a steam room anyway.

You hating a word doesn't change it's meaning. Just to clarify though, I was not calling @lollypoppy123 prudish, I was replying to those who were calling bodies disgusting or insulting other cultures. I get OPs worry regarding her appearance.

but not so polite to correct another posters’ grammar.

Next time fart back, to assert dominance.

No one is holding a gun to your head to go into that sauna, lovely. Maybe you had the some misconception about Germans 😂😂😂

Just don't go! Simples!!!

My comment wasn't aimed at you.

I also didn't suggest changing the meaning of any words, all I said was that being uncomfortable with public nudity was absolutely fine, and prudish is quite a negative word.

I wore a bikini at a spa in Austria and everyone stared and it was honestly awful. So much more embarrassing than if I’d just been naked!

how would you feel if you saw a woman with reconstructive surgery? Would you think “eww gross” or absolutely nothing whatsoever? Because most people wouldn’t notice or if they did would have zero thoughts on it.

Now the one British person wearing clothes in a German spa…people will have thoughts on that.

It sounds like the teacher was just making a point.

Holding up towels in turn for each other to shower would be wasting a lot of time, so the teacher made you leave the towels on the bench to make a point about not being prude.

It does sound a bit silly to be holding a towel up for another person to have a shower in a single-sex changing room. I have never seen anyone doing that in the men's changing rooms.

Yep, its a bit like somebody wearing a white gown to a wedding - as the mother of the groom. A cultural no-no with a very passive aggressive undertone.

Absolutely. We were a right bunch of silly, unevolved prudes!

😂

But there won't be a next time. That's me done with naked saunas!

Well that's subjective. HTH

sigh

No, I merely didn't attribute the first quote to its poster. I attributed the second one (and the second one only) to GehenSieWeiter because I was responding specifically to her. At no point was I accusing GehenSieWeiter of making the comment 'Much healthier attitude than silly British prudism'. If you read it again, you'll see I didn't attribute the subsequent quotes to their posters either.

Hope that helps clear things up for you. Bit ironic that you're advocating 'reading the comments and which poster made the comments', given the circumstances.

I wouldn’t go to a naked sauna or spa. Grim

I do not want random people to see my body, neither do I want to see theirs. So I am one of the prudes then.
Sitting looking at each other's body is different to walking past someone who is naked in a changing room I suggest.

Be that as it may, I can't speak for the op but I personally do not wish anyone to see my body as it is now, that's all. I don't care what anyone would think as such, I'm just not comfortable with anyone seeing me naked.

just use a towel. nobody will mind. Bikini on the other hand is considered to be extremely unhygienic

I think the idea is that the sweat gets trapped and starts breeding bacteria. But how fast does that really happen? I mean, I can believe the clothing might need a good hot wash, but I can't really see it affects the other people in the sauna.

You are expected to be fully naked in German & Austrian saunas but you can easily take two towels with you. Keep one wrapped around your body and one for sitting on. Literally nobody will mind. Or wait until off-peak times (eg. after dinner) where it should be nearly empty. You also don't need to use the communal shower afterwards, just slip on a bathrobe and shower in your own room.

Is that actually your contribution to the discussion?

Prudish is just a word which describes feelings.