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    Steam baths

    I was reading an Eyewitness book about Russia and it was interesting to learn that Russians delight in their weekly steam baths (banya).

    ....I learned that in larger cities, there are steam baths located in every district where people can go to steam their bodies to extreme temperatures. I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?

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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I was reading an Eyewitness book about Russia and it was interesting to learn that Russians delight in their weekly steam baths (banya).

    ....I learned that in larger cities, there are steam baths located in every district where people can go to steam their bodies to extreme temperatures. I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    A brown bear with an AK-47, a total stranger with a garlic and vodka breath, may grab you right in the street and take you to a steam baths to steam his and your body to extreme temperatures. But as this happens only once a week (the rest of the week bears don't wash), you are advised to stay indoors on Sundays, on work days you'll be just fine. I wonder if there is a similar tradition in Canada and if grizzly bears enjoy steam bathing with humans just like our brown bears do.
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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.

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    Are they similar to Turkish baths?
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Are they similar to Turkish baths?
    Turkish baths?Are you kidding? They are much more brutal. A foreigner would probably perish in one in a matter of seconds. Have you ever been birched, son?
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    They sound like just hot tubs to me!

    PS Hot tubbing with strange women is always interesting, in any culture!
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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.

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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
    20-50 naked guys in one room.... sounds kinky to me
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.

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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
    20-50 naked guys in one room.... sounds kinky to me
    Nothing wrong with 20 naked guys in one room per se. I wonder if you've ever been to a gym. Or are you conscious of your tiny wiener?
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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by Kim_2320
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
    20-50 naked guys in one room.... sounds kinky to me
    Спроси у своих престарелых родственников ходили ли они когда-нубудь в общие бани.
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    Re: Steam baths

    [quote=VendingMachine]
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    Quote Originally Posted by "Kim_2320":1ecv8hpz
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
    20-50 naked guys in one room.... sounds kinky to me
    Nothing wrong with 20 naked guys in one room per se. I wonder if you've ever been to a gym. Or are you conscious of your tiny wiener?[/quote:1ecv8hpz]

    Speak for yourself dude! Simply, I don't want to be in one room with a bunch of naked guys
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VendingMachine
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Are they similar to Turkish baths?
    Turkish baths?Are you kidding? They are much more brutal. A foreigner would probably perish in one in a matter of seconds. Have you ever been birched, son?
    Do not panic! If that birching is right, it is painless, moreover it is pleasantly.

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    Re: Steam baths

    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by sintez
    a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers;
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Decidedly not. Gays are not use that places for orgies or for anything of this kind.
    If you want to visit "gay orgy", you have to look for another place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DDT
    PS Hot tubbing with strange women is always interesting, in any culture!
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    Re: Steam baths

    [quote=charlestonian][quote=VendingMachine]
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by "sintez":211tp2wb
    Quote Originally Posted by "Kim_2320":211tp2wb
    I am curious as to whether people steam bath in private, or with other strangers?
    You can visit a public "banya" where you can choose: a) public rooms for 20-50 persons and delight with strangers; b) private rooms for 3-6 persons and delight with frends, lover or alone.
    Most popular solution is to construct one's own "banya" for 2-4 persons out of town.
    Shouldn't it be called "gay orgy?"
    Нет.
    20-50 naked guys in one room.... sounds kinky to me
    Nothing wrong with 20 naked guys in one room per se. I wonder if you've ever been to a gym. Or are you conscious of your tiny wiener?[/quote:211tp2wb]

    Speak for yourself dude! Simply, I don't want to be in one room with a bunch of naked guys [/quote:211tp2wb]Is it because you think you might react inapropriately?
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    I can think off dozens cases when a bunch of naked men in one place wouldn't be a gay orgy. You're unfamiliar with army life I see. But tracing your line of thought leads to a very interesting conclusion about you (whoever you are - a single person with a virtual schizophrenia or two different persons or even both).
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    Wow, this thread has turned into an argument about orgies in so little time.


    Relax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Are they similar to Turkish baths?
    They are more close to Finnish sauna than Turkish bath.
    Turkish bath has a rather cold steam.
    Finnish sauna has a hot dry air.
    Russian banya takes the advantages of both.
    At the beginning your rise the air temperature just like in a sauna and after some time when temperature decreases a little you add slightly a steam.
    After temperature decreases there is a sort of massage procedure using веник.

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