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Finns do it naked: Or, what to expect in a Finnish sauna

Posted on 12 helmikuun, 201610 kesäkuun, 2025by Cecilia Therman

In March 2015 the student newspaper of Turku University published an article titled Dear Finland, 12 things we don’t understand about you. In the article, which I found both fun and informative, the writer laments that no-one had warned her that Finns go to the sauna naked. In order to avoid this kind of confusion […]

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