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Starbie B.'s avatar

I childishly giggled at the thought of the sweat dripping off the “tips of their everything”. Maybe it’s my upbringing in Germany, but I absolutely love being naked. It’s one of my favorite states of being. Good spas are pretty sparse where I live on the east coast in the US, but I love spending the day at the few good Korean spas in my area hopping from pool to pool, getting rigorously scrubbed down, and lounging in the saunas. I’m long overdue for a spa day, but reading this made me want to start a new personal tradition of spending the solstices in a spa.

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Michael Procopio's avatar

I am most impressed that you managed to grill pork over a white hot fire without ever having put your clothes back on. Very daring!

I used to use the sauna at the Jewish Community Center here in SF. Often, I would sit in my ever-growing circle of sweat, listening to ancient Russian men with missing eyes and limbs and pendulous gonads (WWII vets is my guess) yelling at each other and laughing and pouring water over the hot rocks and swatting each other with eucalyptus branches. No birch here, just invasive koala fodder.

I never thought I'd actually miss those encounters until I read this today.

Happy Midsummer!

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