[quote]Renton wrote:
ktennies wrote:
Renton wrote:
I’ve been in mixed locker rooms in Sweden
I’ve never hear of these, though I’m not suprised. Do people ever hook up in those situations? If anything, I’d think there would be a lot of creepers hanging around.
As far as creepers go, surprisingly there are not many at all.
Sure, people hook up, but not really any more than in the gym or the pool or in a club or anywhere else for that matter.
I must admit to finding it a little strange at first. Alright, a lot strange. I was just going to swim and grab a sauna etc.
I walked into the changing rooms and it took a few seconds to realise I wasn’t in the wrong place. I thought I’d walked into the female changing area - then I saw guys in there too.
There were some amazingly hot Swedish girls, completely naked, and not phased by it at all. There were also some decidedly ugly Swedish girls in the same state. But then there were guys - some with great bodies, some looking like shit.
Then it starts to sink in. It’s a changing room. People are in there to get showered and changed. That’s it. I grabbed a locker (well a cupboard - no lock on it, no need), stripped and put my gear in there, and went through to the sauna.
Now I’m really not bothered about getting my kit off anywhere (ask some of the local bars round here), but the thing that struck me was that it very quickly started to feel far more natural than it would if I did the same thing in the UK.
Sure, people checked other people out, but it wasn’t in a 'Phwoarrr! Look at THAT!" sort of way. Just an admiring glance here and there then carry on to wherever you were going.
I spent about 40 minutes in the Sauna chatting to naked guys & girls and guess what? We talked about anything and everything. Just day to day bullshit like you would anywhere else.
Towards the end of my sauna I was talking to the most beautiful Swedish girl you could imagine. I mean, close your eyes and think Swedish Goddess. Got it? That was her. Naked. We talked about our different countries, where we’d visited, foods we liked, anything really.
We’d both had our fill of the sauna and she asked me, in the most awesome accent, if I wanted to go take a shower then get a coffee. Now if that had happened here in the UK I’d have been plotting my moves and 90 seconds later she’d have been pressed against the shower wall with me firmly implanted inside her.
Over there though, because maybe of the whole relaxed attitude to nudity, I just accepted and we went and showered together. No big deal. I mean yeah I enjoyed the view but that was it.
We went and got changed then went for a coffee.
Now the strangest thing (alright, strange when you’ve never experienced Sweden) - We chatted for a while longer and as we were really enjoying each others company she actually invited me to her house for a meal that night. She made a call (in Swedish) and a little later her husband arrived and off we went.
They cooked an amazing traditional Swedish meal, we drank, talked, drank some more, then the hot tub was mentioned so we had half an hour in that - again, all naked.
At no point was sex implied in any way. I was asked to stay over and as I was enjoying myself so much I accepted. Their guest bedroom was made ready and after more drinks and laughs and talks we all turned in.
That was it. Just a great, friendly night.
The reason I went on so much above was to highlight a point. In many countries we see nudity (especially of the opposite sex) as a sexual thing.
When you are in a country where the general population thinks somewhat differently it becomes easy to fall into their way of thinking and in Sweden I found it an extremely refreshing and nice thing to do.
Her husband told me that his wife actually found me extremely attractive, but I was invited back to theirs because I was friendly and interesting - nothing to do with sex. She was his wife and would never have cheated - but she was open enough with him to tell him how much she liked me.
Even better in some ways, he was man enough to accept it and even tell me with no feeling of threat.
Sort of a hijack from the original topic but may be interesting to some.[/quote]
That, my friend, is quite a story. I need to visit Sweden, apparently. Well done. Post of the day!