Sauna and sex?

Even though one is naked in a sauna, the experience has nothing to do with sex. What you do in your home's privacy is your own business, but a temperature of 80 degrees Celcius is not comfortable for any physical activity. You sweat quite enough as it is.

(Sidenote: If you came here through a search engine and are disappointed by the lack of explicit images, why not make the most of your brief stay and learn more about saunas.)

Nakedness

In public saunas, or when one has guests at home, women and men usually bathe separately. If they bathe together, the bathers will probably wear a bathing suit or towel. Families mostly bathe together when the children are small and many keep doing so until the children grow up and move away from home.

A notable exception to the separation of men and women are saunas organised by students (e.g. university student union parties), where mixed saunas are relatively common, and clothing very optional. In my several years of student life, however, not once has there been any sexual atmosphere in these saunas. This relaxed attitude and lack of self-consiousness has been quite a surprise for many of the visiting foreign students, experiencing their first saunas.

Bathing suits or towels don't really belong into the sauna, but I feel everyone has a right to experience the sauna in comfort. If a towel makes the sauna less intimidating, by all means use one.

Being naked is not a goal in itself. Bathing suits for example are used on the beach and may contain all kinds of stuff that the sauna owner does not want in the sauna's clean environment. Covering yourself with towel when cooling down between saunas, on the other hand, is common even among sauna purists.

Sensual services

The sad fact remains that around the world some establishments offer sensual services under the sauna name. These have nothing to do with proper saunas, except possibly a heated room.