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Originally Posted by FKKFan
Now in the face of this retreat from public toplessness (and nudity), German saunabads are as popular as ever (if not more so); perhaps that's due to the management and respect that one affords others in such settings. You can sunbathe nude (and of course sweat like you're in hell) and lots (LOTS) of hot women choose to do so; there are a few public schwimmbads in the Freiburg area (university city) where you can enjoy the finest of sites...holidays are a magnet.
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I can confirm this. Last Summer me and my wife spent a week in Bad Wildbad thermal baths (near Freiburg) and there was a good mix of sexes. Mostly 40-60yrs but there were a few 20-40s like me and my wife. I chronicled some of the better moments from that trip
in this thread.
If I had the money (and I don't), I would create a thermal bath centre specifically designed to combat the move away from social nudity, I've got it all planned out in my head
An initial clothing-optional area where guests can wear swimsuits if they wish, because I think it's key to provide a gateway to social nudity that is not forced, but which is pretty boring in comparison to the wonders that await in the enforced nudity areas beyond where there are saunas, spas, a bar, who knows maybe even freakin' waterslides and a rainforest in an enormous enclosed glasshouse if I had the money. Free entry to students to encourage participation by younger groups. Also from a PR point of view I think social nudity really doesn't sell itself as well as it could do: we have the opportunity to ally ourselves with the Arts, provide a space for artists to sketch nudes such as in the original gymnos in Ancient Greece and encourage nudity as a means to better health (which it is!). The thermal bath I went to last year in Bad Wildbad was decorated in Byzantine style mosaics and classical statuary, it was amazing. We know we already have our male following and I think it would also be important to cultivate a female following, provide strict anti-perv laws but obviously allow that relaxed flirting that inevitably occurs, maybe even hire groups of younger ladies just so the existing ones don't feel like the only ones!
/end dreaming