Come on – this is a country where it's still considered 'proper' to wear a swimming cossie in a sauna, FFS! Even though that is as daft as wearing one in a shower or bath, and actually can produce health problems as you sweat and the sweat cannot escape – you can get fungal infections in places where the flesh creases, such as under the breasts or in the groin area.

And yet we look at people who do actually use a sauna properly and assume something sexual by their nudity. This remains a country that somehow manages to combine prudery and prurience.

And it's effing bonkers.

I don't know about "manages to combine", I'd suggest that not only does prurience flourish best in the midst of prudery but also that prudery, by limiting and proscribing, actually encourages prurience.

Where a laydee is covered from head to foot, the merest glimpse of her ankle becomes a "Phwoar !" moment but in societies where near-nakedness is the norm, not an eye is blinked.

Cue fevered outburst from our resident moralist ...

Do you believe that is true?

Reminds me abit of a case a few years ago (think it was in the good ol' US of A) where a guy was stuck with an indecent exposure charge, as he was naked in his own house and a woman and child who where trespassing across his garden to take a short cut saw him and reported it to the rozzers.

Long as they arent harming anyone whats the bother, pretty sure kids see much worse than a naked old man sunbathing.

Not for me, as I'm quite used to seeing ankles.
But for someone in a society where it's forbidden, where flesh is accidentally or deliberately exposed, yes.

I'm not saying that a tiny flash of ankle will lead to raging irresistible urges ... just that covering-up, on the grounds that exposure leads inevitably to sexual thoughts, is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Must be near Craven Park if not many people know about it

One of the most sensual images I've ever seen was on a postcard in Kenya.

It was a head and shoulders shot of a Muslin woman in full chador, all you could really see were her eyes. But what eyes they were. Absolutely captivating