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[braunshade]

Do ALL saunas require full nudity?? I realize that they are generally separated by sex but I have to go with some co-workers in a couple of days and I really don't want to hang out naked with them!

[rockstarsmooth]

hard to take a bath with your clothes on.
let it all hang out dude.
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[braunshade]

yes, it is hard to take a bath with your clothes on...............but how about when you are walking around the sauna?? from the hot pool to the cold pool.......do people wear a towel to do that?

[ajgeddes]

[kingplaya4]

Sorry no one does that. And the towels are pretty small here, you would look pretty weird trying to cover up. If you are relaxing in one of the relaxing rooms with the tv's in them you could wear some kind of capri shorts that they have. Also, you need to put those on before your massage.

Btw, I went back to my place today, it says in Korean "Sauna" and "Jimjillbong". So you can get coed massages or whatever you call them at a jimjillbong.

[braunshade]

I see.............so there are co-ed areas..........do you think it would be possible for me to spend the ENTIRE time in one of the designiated co-ed areas?? Too weird?

I am uptight..........I should probably just stay home!

[Hyeon Een]

[kingplaya4]

Another thing is that I don't notice the racism in saunas that others mention. I don't notice guys checking out my junk, and they will get into the same whirlpool as me. I don't notice a bunch of white faces at the sauna, so I must be at least somewhat as usual, but they don't seem to pay me much attention. I assume they're there to relax, not worry about foreigners.

I was somewhat self conscious at first, as this is the custom in the west, but youll get over it somewhat your first time, and by your third time you won't think much of it. Btw, not all saunas have coed areas, if you don't know any local foreigners you'll have to find the ones that do by trial and error if you're interested or maybe ask a Korean you know.

[Qinella]

I wouldn't want to go to a sauna with a person I know. My old boss asked me to go and I was like there's no way in hell I'm standing around naked with you.

It all just depends on what you're comfortable with. Some people don't mind hanging out with their friends in the nude. But be aware you will absolutely be butt naked, and there will be no covering up of yourself as you walk between hot tubs.

Also, bear in mind the initial part. Picture it in your head. You are standing there in an open room with no privacy. You have to strip down, put your clothes in a locker, and then parade your naked ass through the entire length of the locker room over to the hot tub room. This is a weeeiiird feeling the first time.

All this being said, I used to love going to saunas and have been at least a dozen times. But I always go alone.

[Cerebroden]

I think this should be the next dave's gathering.

Let's all get neked and see who the best man is!

[chronicpride]

[jaderedux]

Oh for heaven sakes unless you have a giant boil festering or a second head growing out of your butt don't worry. I was a bit shy at first but saw a woman with a horribly mangled masectomy strip down and no one blinked. I seen fat women, fat skinny women, hairy women and little boys that should have been in the mens bath with their dads but hey who am I do to judge.

I am a bit chubby for koreans but other than my tattoo they could give a rats butt. I love floating around in the whirlpools like a little white chubby mandu. And my somewhat ample breasts are stared and elicit some envy however my big ol' butt doesn't.

So go and have fun. And by the way I was at one once and I hear my name. There is the mother of my student waving at me and talking to me as I am as naked as the day as I was born....now that was a little uncomfortable.

Jade all wrinkling from the whirlpool.

[Buff]

[heydelores]

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