Well we come into this world butt naked.
The fun thing is that with water below 10C you feel that water in your whole body, even if you’re wearing a full-body 9mm neoprene. Being naked is optional 
Back in 2013 we were on holiday in Malta and a German guy walked into our hotel reception area in a t-shirt and a tiny pair of flesh coloured Speedos. I had to do a double take as I actually thought he had nothing on his bottom half 
10 years ago when I took an intensive German course in Basel there was a Romanian guy who used to sit next to me, he said he had never seen as much dick as in Basel during the Rheinschwimmen. Apparently he’d been sitting on a bench by the Rheinweg at Kleinbasel when an old guy got out of the water butt naked, sat next to him then spread his legs to sunbathe 
Guys my size call it bioprane.
I like nude sauna and nude sunbathing on nude beach, but finding such places could be a problem, places where people are coming for the joy of the heat not because of sexual thoughts
Regarding sauna, if you want to get in dressed you’re limited to mildly warm temperature. I’m not a fan of it as it doesn’t make you sweat enough and not give you the refreshment feeling.
Here in Switzerland I haven’t seen a mixed-gender sauna. Anyway it’s rather hard to find a normal one anyway. When googling for one around you’ll hit a lot of sex clubs, just read the fine print, disgusting.
There’s a huge difference between a sauna and a sauna club. Pay attention haha
But saunas are quite common. Any thermal bath and plenty of gyms have one.
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I was in one attached to a gym in central Zürich some twenty years ago, don’t remember the name.
I remember there was an American girl who was very interested in studying male attributes as they wandered around.
I’m surprised the Police even bothered - perfectly legal to be naked at home in almost all circumstances. Standing at a window shining a torch on your raging stiffy might be a step too far, though.
In my experience (I sauna fairly regularly) those that wrap themselves in a towel are very much the exception and confined to sauna novices or occasionally english speakers. Almost everyone just sits on it., wrappng yourself in a towl tends to get you more looks than being fully naked.
Appear in bathers and you will be told to remove them!
All the sauna’s I’ve ever been to in CH, A or D have been mixed. A few have a few hours single gender per week but most not.
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I didn’t mean wearing a towel, but holding one in my right hand if I am standing about or putting it in my lap if I am sitting. In th sauna itself I sit on the towel.
I do so hope that everybody does that in the sauna, can you imagine squelching into somebody’s ass-juice?
I always shower first.
…iiit gets hot and sweaty in a sauna.
Over at X they seem to be rather lax about it!
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THat was probably Migros operated. Was notorious for all the homosexuals who populated the place.
The Migros Fitnesspark at Puls 5 in Zurich is a large fitness and wellness provider that gained notoriety in 2013 when a gay couple was ejected from a relaxation room by Migros management for “indecent behavior,” despite witnesses reporting peaceful conduct. This incident garnered media attention, as the park is also known as a meeting place. Today, the fitnesspark offers modern equipment, classes, a bathing area with saunas, and a Kneipp path, and is an established destination for sports and relaxation in Zurich West.
Never saw what all the fuss is tbh… we do a corporate ski weekend every year, and there’s a group of people that goto the sauna.
I’m not comfortable enough of my body shape to let people I know see me naked, so I skip… but why not if you aren’t body-conscious/embarrassed of your extra rolls
A strict requirement in this part of the world, controlled by sauna staff (and somethines other sauner goers).
Friend of mine was recently in a sauna in Scotland. Not only was everyone wearing bathers, he also reported that no-one ever sat on a towel so all that sweat went straight into the wood.
Simple. Block the stupid thing.
Arrest that stupid man.
The fact that people have decided to include the Grok/Musk news in this thread says a lot about their own attitudes to people being naked.
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In 1994, after the written exams (schriftliches Abitur) we went skiing in the French alps (couple of friends from school) - it was in the Trois Vallée region, in Méribel IIRC). It was the after-season and the town was almost in “concrete ghost town” mode again.
We rented an apartment and I think there was a sauna in that building or nearby (can’t remember exactly).
We went into that sauna with just towels (no girls had come along) but we received complaints from French mothers who objected to the nudity because of young kids running around.
Years later, I was on a training for a piece of software. It was in the middle of Summer and very, very hot (must have been 2003).
The sales guy of the company organized a little trip to a local river (I believe he was Austrian, the company was Bavarian, the location was South of Munich, towards the end of the S-Bahn lines) where we all went skinny-dipping as nobody had brought anything related to having a bath.
Again, no women there, either.
That felt pretty surreal TBH.
But it had been a very hot day and it felt refreshing.