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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'm pretty sure they shower naked too before going in the pool, at least thats the rule on the door.
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Nope. See Snowy's post. Sorry Ustwo, you can't pretend to be an expert on this one, unless you start dressing as a woman and hanging out in American women's locker rooms for 12 years of public education and an entire lifetime at the local swimming pool. What does your wife say?
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Really comparing anywhere to iceland is a bit difficult. Iceland is for all intents one people, and my suburb has almost 2/3rds its population. If you include a neighboring one, we have a greater population, and a more diverse one.
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Now this paragraph, I do agree with... Iceland is a pretty crazy little country, and it's tough to generalize that out to bigger nations. However, that doesn't mean the points I make about Iceland are invalid. There are some things about this place that I do appreciate (very few, believe me)... one of them is the openness about women's bodies and sex that they have here, in comparison with the US (and even more in comparison with other countries, once again usually non-Western ones).
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Originally Posted by match000
That's prolly cuz everyone's obese and is in some way ashamed of showing their body. It *is* the US, after all, the land of rampant obesity.
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There's a shit-ton of obese people here in Iceland, too. And yet people walk around in bikinis and speedos like it's no thing, because there just isn't the same sense of "shame" about one's body ingrained in people here.