Quoth One-Fang
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Even if I have to resort to the stuff made up by Finns. (Yeah, there's a bit of local rivalry here.)
As a fairly tame example, let's consider that a Finnish sauna - and Finns will be proud to tell you that they invented the thing in the first place - operates at no less than 80°C. (Our office sauna is normally set to 88°C.)
It is, by tradition, a completely non-sexual place - not least because it's unbelievably difficult to maintain any kind of physical exertion at that temperature. Finnish children were traditionally born there (being the one clean and warm place in the whole village), and now major business and political deals are worked out there (no doubt to give the Finns an advantage, being comfortable).
Contrast that with the Swedish sauna, which has been exported to the rest of the world. It is, as Finns say, "merely a warm room". It has also gained the unsavoury reputation as the traditional meeting ground for gay men.
'Nuff said.
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