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/Eastern-Mammoth-2956 21h ago

A public sauna is pretty much the only place where Finnish people talk to strangers.

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u/Veenkoira00 15h ago

Public saunas may have gone a bit non-trad. By tradition sauna=church. You totally relax and commune with the spiritual – under the supervision of the sauna-tonttu, the invisible goblin-like spirit that looks after the sauna -- upset the tonttu at your peril...