How often do you go to sauna?

[Stefu]

Well, I don't see what could possibly be perverted in a bunch of men sweating naked in close proximity to each other and possibly spanking each other with birch twigs.

You're just afraid of sweaty nutsacks.

And as if the promised land of all-male boarding schools is one to talk about wrongness...

[Pekka]

Olaf, Wow! That was harsh

[Pekka]

Serb, yeah, cold beer is great too after that! It's like ultimate drinking experience, you're relaxed and perceptive to your body, so drinking beer is nice then. It's also a bit of a tradition that if you're drinking with your buddies in a house, at some point everyone goes to sauna. It's nice, then you have mixed sauna, so the ladies are there sometimes too.
When I was with my former class in a party, everyone went to sauna at the same time (big sauna), and there were few hot chicks with nice boobs, so it was very rewarding experience to see the at last .

[Serb]

I had the same experience during last weekend.
Sauna without girls and beer is a bit boring, but still ok.
Those guys who says that "sauna- " just don't understand a thing about it.

[Saras]

Amen, Brother Serb!

The BEST thing is the hottest bearable sauna, a hole in an ice-cevered lake and cold cold vodka afterwards!

[monolith94]

"monolithh94, something around 110 and 120 Celsius"

I keep telling people that I've had saunas around that temperature but they don't believe me!!! I personally like the temperature RIGHT at 110 - that's my sweet spot.

Where I was staying, we'd run out of the sauna and jump into the cool, fresh finnish seaside.

Stefu - you're absolutely right to point out the hypocrisy of the boarding school nation!

[ThePantaloonDog]

I used to go to a sauna when I went swimming in this frickin cold pool in Maine. I'd jump out of freezing pool get really hot in the sauna and then jump back into the pool. It was great! Of course as I grew older I found I could get the same rush from drinking smoking and sex without the weirdness of sweaty old men watching me.

[PLATO]

Sauna's are great! Used to go far more than I am able now. This is something the Finns have figured out!

[Pekka]

monolith94, they are fools. And they won't ever find out the good things of it, if they don't even believe it's possible

Saras, That's it!

[DaShi]

I use the sauna fairly regularly, but my grandfather gets up about 8 times a night to use it.

[Chemical Ollie]

When I was in University in Turkku, we had a Swedish-Finnish championship in sauna. The one who could stay inside for the longest time was the winner. Everone left after 15-20 minutes, except 2 guys, one from each country, who decided to stay and take the fight. Both where throwing water at the stove every other minute and telling each other "You are out!" After 45 minutes or so, the Swedish guy saw a small red spot on the white tile floor. He could not understand how the spot could grow larger and larger, until he realised it was blood from his own nose. He decided it was finally time to give up. OK, who expected a Swede to win over a Finn in a Sauna contest anyway? The Finnish guy won by 0.5 seconds, as he followed the Swede in his footsteps out of the hot hell. Both guys were standing for an hour in the ice cool shower to come back to earth, cursing and breathing heavily. All of us are still close friends, and we meet once every second year or so.

[monolith94]

Sounds like fun, Olaf!

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Pekka
Olaf, Wow! That was harsh

No, common, you can take it!

It's about the only words I know in Finnish! After all, I only lived there for 2 years, and I had legal rights to speak Swedish when I was there.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by monolith94
Sounds like fun, Olaf!

You could bet it was! The only part I'm missing is that my girlfriend (current wife) was still in Sweden. OK, there were ways to cure that but nothing is like the real thing...

[Chemical Ollie]

Answer to above question (I'm semi-finn by university education and 1/8 Finn by blood line):

I turn my sauna to 85 degrees Celsius. Yeah, right, chicken Swede, but I don't need more than that!