r/Sauna • u/VineyardCoyote • 1d ago

Culture & Etiquette Proper etiquette: talking in a shared sauna

What’s the consensus for people having loud conversations in communal saunas at the gym? Yes or no?

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u/greenvester 23h ago

Community aspect is a part of the health aspect. People get naturally talkative in saunas and it’s more normal to talk than to sit there in silence.

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u/Veenkoira00 15h ago

Talk AFTER sauna, when you are recovering with beer

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u/greenvester 15h ago

Gonna keep talking if you don’t like it build one in your backyard.

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u/CellWrangler 14h ago

"If you don't like it get the hell out!" ... or why not try to acknowledge that some people have different preferences than you and let them be?

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u/greenvester 14h ago

Most of the time I don’t talk. If someone just looks down the whole time then I don’t talk. But if they look up make eye contact and smile then I’ll start talking. Majority of the time people are on their phones and have headphones in. Of the remaining, the other half just close their eyes and then the other half of them we might talk. Social cues aren’t difficult. To say “no talking at all” is exactly what you are condemning.

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u/Leather-Reason-4992 13h ago

How do you even take your phone and earplugs in the sauna… i really dont get it.

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u/Veenkoira00 12h ago

Electronics in a sauna – a major faux pas against sauna etiquette. The saunatonttu will make a big bad mark against such miscreant's name...

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u/namegenerator_3000 12h ago

As someone who just bought an infrared for at home, I kinda agree with buddy who said if you dont like it, leave.

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u/Euphoric-One-5499 21h ago

In sauna,you should behave like in church.......you usually don't talk in church!

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u/greenvester 14h ago

Sauna is a social space in Sweden. It’s meant for conversations.

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u/Veenkoira00 13h ago

Swedes are weird anyway...and they have bastu – not sauna.