Which of the world's many nationalities are the most casual about going nude? Could it be the Koreans or Japanese with their traditions of public bathhouses? Or the Finns with their famous saunas?

It’s a Wednesday night and somewhere in a basement under Canary Wharf, in London, I am attempting to coax the feeling back into my lower body. I lost all sensation after I immersed myself in a ...

LONDON — When I received an invitation to a birthday party at a social sauna, my first thought was: "Do I have to be naked?!" The answer (thankfully) was no, although some sauna traditionalists would ...

A new study out of Finland found that men who took two to three sauna baths a week lowered their risk of developing high blood pressure by 24 percent, and men who took four to seven sauna baths weekly ...

LONDON — When I received an invitation to a birthday party at a social sauna, my first thought was: "Do I have to be naked?!" Following a hectic 6 p.m. commute on public transit, the tranquility of ...