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<blockquote data-quote="Kalevalatar" data-source="post: 70182018" data-attributes="member: 116770"><p>Saunas in Finland are much older than written Finnish language and culture. <em>Sauna</em> itself, of course, is a Finnish word. We're talking about thousands of years here. Apart from the electric <em>kiuas</em>, the sauna heater/stove thing, saunas are basically very much the same they were, say, 2,000 years ago.</p><p></p><p>As to the history of "naturism" thing, the western taboo of nudity is as young as nationalism, a 19th century Victorian invention, basically. Up until the WWII and following urbanization and industrialisation, the vast majority of the world's folks and families lived in cramed spaces with no notion of privacy or private rooms. They slept, ate, ailed, pooped, procreated, gave birth and died in front of their fellow people. The world was like an ice hockey shower & locker room back then: the hockey players don't have a naturism-as-a-hobby thing going on there. They just go through the motions, naked bodies and all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kalevalatar, post: 70182018, member: 116770"] Saunas in Finland are much older than written Finnish language and culture. [I]Sauna[/I] itself, of course, is a Finnish word. We're talking about thousands of years here. Apart from the electric [I]kiuas[/I], the sauna heater/stove thing, saunas are basically very much the same they were, say, 2,000 years ago. As to the history of "naturism" thing, the western taboo of nudity is as young as nationalism, a 19th century Victorian invention, basically. Up until the WWII and following urbanization and industrialisation, the vast majority of the world's folks and families lived in cramed spaces with no notion of privacy or private rooms. They slept, ate, ailed, pooped, procreated, gave birth and died in front of their fellow people. The world was like an ice hockey shower & locker room back then: the hockey players don't have a naturism-as-a-hobby thing going on there. They just go through the motions, naked bodies and all. [/QUOTE]
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