Internationals in the Netherlands are often aghast when they discover many of the country’s saunas are nude and mixed-gender. But Our regular columnist Molly Quell survived the experience and even ...

‘Try not to stare, you know, down there,’ was my boyfriend’s only tip before we ventured to a sauna in the Netherlands pre-corona. You see, unlike in the UK, saunas in the land of windmills and tulips ...

Our regular columnist Molly Quell thought she had completed her integration when she went to a Dutch sauna. But now she’s embraced the Netherlands even further. Last year, I stripped naked in the ...

What happens when an uptight, modest North American girl steps into a mixed-gender nude spa, sans towel, sans robe, sans support system either literal or metaphorical? I'm not sure whose idea it was, ...

Sauna culture is heating up, and not in the quiet, niche way it once did. What began as a regional tradition closely associated with Nordic life has moved into the global mainstream, propelled largely ...