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Originally Posted by sebsationally
Thanks for the account. Are the Chinese people you saw a regular occurrence or an unusual sight? Did any seem particular embarrassed (other than the guy)? Your definitely right about the difference between foreign girls and natives, it is a much bigger deal for them. For that reason it's much more exciting to hear about.
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This was an unusual occurance, what with this Chinese woman taking her friends (family) with her. But you can also see Indian, Persian, English and Canadian women there, and they are more likely to be 'zeigefreudig' (as they say in Germany) than the German women.
In the saunas, most women sit 'very comfortably not caring what is seen' but at the same time they are clearly not trying to show off, and most of them tend to put on robes once they have showered afterwards (some stroll around naked for a while to cool off before showering
). In the summertime most women arrange themselves 'very comfortably' on the lounges out in the garden, but again not to show off, and they tend to put on their robes when moving around. Almost all women wear a robe or put on a blanket in the lounge rooms.
The women who do show off tend to open their legs a bit more than what is needed just to be comfortable when lying on their lounges in the garden, and place themselves such that you get a good view as you stroll around on the pathways
. The really brave/foolhardy lie with their legs very wide open in the lounge rooms, but that is foolhardy because the staff does not look kindly at it. I've only seen it a few times.
The usual way to show off is to use the warm pools, because it is not very likely that the staff will do anything about it. If, as sometimes actually happens, a woman close to me is blatantly showing off in the pool, I tend to demonstratively place my legs as if saying 'I need to hide something', which in the circumstances is 'flirting while still obeying the naturist rules'. If, as occasionally happens, she smiles directly at me and looks very pleased with herself, I might well relax my position and show her effect on me. And that's it, only seldom does anything more happen.
Sometimes in these pools you overhear conversations, always in english, between 'life style' people discussing 'courses in enhanced sexuality', naked yoga sessions and the like, and these groups tend to based on US people who have moved to Berlin for the 'freedom'. But there may be Indian, Tunisian, Danish, Spanish, whatever people in these groups as well. But never any Germans. Germans don't go to the Spa to show that they are groovy people who dare to live an alternative lifestyle, they just go to the Spa to relax, and it so happens that the Saunas and the pools are used in the nude, no big deal. Berlin is very international, and there are often lovely Italian and French women there as well, but you seldom see them showing off, I guess that would be vulgar, and far beneath their sense of style.
Regards
Halkan