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Naked Men At Work
Instead of the pub after work, they get naked together here
By Lennox Morrison 21st October 2016
‘My instant reaction was to put my hands on my crotch’
It’s quite normal to go to the sauna with your boss
My instant reaction was to put my hands on my crotch
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I’ll never forget the first time I sat naked, thigh-to-thigh on a wooden sauna bench with my boss. It was week one of a new job with a computer start-up near Heidelberg in Germany. I’m from Scotland, where socialising after work means going to the pub for drinks. I never dreamt it would involve standing outdoors with colleagues, snowflakes falling on my bare skin.
For me it was a seismic culture shock. But in Germany, Holland or Finland it’s not unusual to visit a sauna with colleagues. And in Finland it’s perfectly natural to have seen your boss without a stitch of clothing.
“Finland is quite an equal country. We don’t have strict social classes,” says Katariina Styrman, chief executive officer of The Finnish Sauna Society in Helsinki. “It’s quite normal to go to the sauna with your boss. It’s a place where you should forget about titles and salaries.”
In this northerly nation of nearly 5.5 million people, there’s about one sauna for every two people, she says. Most companies have their own in-house sauna.
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Unlike Germany, where saunas are mixed, the Finnish tradition is that — outside the family circle — men and women visit the sauna separately. Even so, for non-Finnish newcomers, the first session in the log cabin with colleagues might not be quite as relaxing as it’s meant to be. “It was a bit of a stepping stone to get over,” says Kristof Minnaert, a Belgian who moved to Helsinki in 2013 to join the staff of game developer Remedy Entertainment. The company’s studio and offices in Espoo have a rooftop sauna. “You have to be naked to get in there. It’s kind of frowned upon if you do wear a towel or swimming shorts,” adds Minnaert, 30, a senior character technical artist.
After three years, however, he’s grown at ease with the Friday evening ritual of a sauna with colleagues, where it's also common to sip a beer and then step outside onto the open-air terrace sans clothing. He and his team spend between one and three hours in the sauna each week and while they don't formally conduct meetings, they do talk about work and, sometimes, end up with good ideas to pursue back at their desks.
Belgian Kristof Minnaert is now comfortable relaxing in the rooftop sauna with colleagues at game developer Remedy Entertainment in Helsinki (Credit: Kristof Minnaert)
“It’s a bit like going to a bar but with less drinking and in a sweaty environment,” he says. “It’s nicer in winter because it can get to minus 30 degrees Celsius outside on the terrace. When you go back inside you feel really revitalised.”
Thanks to an invitation from his boss, Minnaert has also been to The Finnish Sauna Society’s members-only club near Helsinki where traditional wood-burning “smoke saunas” are set among silver birches overlooking the Baltic. Here, ex-presidents and other leading figures mingle in the nude with fellow sauna-goers and have the chance to jump off the pier and plunge into the sea — even in winter, when a hole is sawn through the ice.
Finn Tommi Uitto, senior vice president of global product sales, mobile networks at telecommunications multinational Nokia, explains, “In the sauna there are no titles, no clothes. There are no egos. It’s only you and your thoughts and your words and the same applies to the other person, so it’s much more human being to human being and all the unnecessary decoration is gone.”
The Finnish Sauna Society’s members-only club near Helsinki (Credit: The Finnish Sauna Society)
Nokia has an in-house sauna at each of its three sites on Finnish soil. “It’s a given,” says Uitto. “Any Finn applying for a job in a Finnish company would expect that there is a sauna.”
Earlier in Uitto’s career the sauna was also often used as a place to do business, he says. As well, teams would get together in the sauna to celebrate company successes and milestones, rather than going out to a restaurant or pub. But in recent years, however, the sauna has become less of a focal point, partly because Finnish firms have become more global and also schedules are tighter, he says. Also, since women and men visit the sauna separately, for many it no longer feels like a fair way of holding business discussions.
“It doesn’t seem right to split the team in two,” Uitto says.
While saunas are popular in other northerly countries such as Sweden, Russia and the Netherlands, customs and etiquette vary greatly.
Jan Feller, deputy managing director of the German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Helsinki, has worked in both countries. “For the Finn, the sauna is the place where you go to be yourself and with other people,” says the 41-year-old. “In Germany it is almost purely about health and well-being.”
In Finland, sauna-goers pour water on the coals themselves, but in Germany there is often a sauna master employed to do this at regular intervals, he says. “Just the fact that you have written rules on the wall in the sauna in Germany is something Finns smile about,” Feller says.
In Germany and the Netherlands you wouldn’t expect to find a sauna at your workplace. But if you take part in after-work sports with colleagues, there might well be a sauna at the sports club or gym.
While saunas are popular in other northerly countries such as Sweden, Russia and the Netherlands, customs and etiquette vary greatly(Credit: Getty Images)
When Sam Critchley, founder of retail marketing app company Spaaza, first moved from his native UK to Amsterdam 18 years ago, he went to play squash with colleagues. After the match, everyone headed to the sauna area and stripped off. Nobody would have minded his wearing swimming trunks, but as the only non-Dutch person there he wanted to fit in. So he sat down in the steam room and took off his towel, he says.
“Suddenly this woman appeared out of the steam — a colleague — and asked me, ‘Are you coming to eat afterwards?’. Then she opened the door and I could suddenly see on the pine benches three or four female colleagues sitting in a row,” recalls the now 43-year-old. “My instant reaction was to put my hands on my crotch.”
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Filmmaker Aleksandr M. Vinogradov has turned his camera on the work of Thierry Smits – following the creation of his piece Anima Ardens.
The result is Bare – a documentary that takes us behind-the-scenes of the creative process of modern dance.
Anima Ardens (Burning Soul) is a piece for 11 male dancers – all performing completely nude.
The documentary enables us to observe the initial auditions, the selection of the company, and the rehearsal process – through until the premiere performance.
If you’re interested in dance or naked guys, this is a film that you’ll probably want to add to your watch-list.
Vinogradov’s observational approach works well in this context. The documentary enables us to feel as if we are almost sitting in the rehearsal room, watching the process unfold, eavesdropping on conversations.
We’re used to seeing naked male bodies, but it’s rare to be able to observe a group of naked men – men who are comfortable with their bodies and each other – focused on something other than sex or the act of being naked. In this instance, the focus is on dance and on movement.
There’s an obvious homo-social and homo-erotic context when filming a group of naked men – perhaps even more so here as all the dancers seem to be gay – but this is a film that isn’t prurient and doesn’t rely on eroticism to hold our attention.
Anima Ardens is exploring human rituals, and is a journey towards personal liberation. Male nudity is a tool to tackle taboos head on.
We caught up with Aleksandr Vinogradov for a behind-the-scenes look at the film.
What was the creative process that brought together the idea of making a documentary about the creation of Anima Ardens?
In 2012, I released a short documentary film – Five Steps of Butoh – which was about Japanese contemporary dance.
The work process was so inspiring – dance is such an amazing visual language.
That short film was well-received at festivals. It’s now available to watch online and has over 4 million views.
Dance also features in my short film, Under The Dress.
Dance has become an important instrument of telling stories in my films.
While I was searching for my graduation project, I met with Thierry Smits. He invited me to a performance of his work, Cocktails – I really liked the queerness, satire, and nudity. I suggested to Thierry that I could make a film about his choreography, but – at that time – he wasn’t working on anything that was suitable.
A year later, Thierry contacted me to let me know that he was planning to create something with 11 naked male dancers. I was very excited, so I rented myself some equipment and began filming the audition process.
At that stage, I didn’t imagine that it would result in a ‘making-of’ documentary. I was in the middle of working on my master’s thesis about male nudity in visual art – filming the creation of Anima Ardens seemed like a perfect opportunity to follow the production and get some material for my thesis.
Why was male nudity as a taboo a topic that you wanted to explore?
Nudity is still an issue in society.
For example, when I was taking a shower in the gym in Brussels – this was before lockdown – most men were wearing underwear while showering. Maybe they kept their underwear on because of religious reasons, or because they felt inhibited – I don’t know. In Russia, men are always naked in the shower. It was interesting to reflect on that.
That’s one of the reasons that I included the shower scene in the documentary.
My film is just an observation – it doesn’t provide answers. We need to find the answers ourselves.
There also seems to be a difference in the way that nudity is perceived in the US compared to Europe. My film, Bare, has had a really positive reaction in the US but it’s interesting to see that male nudity is a provocative topic in that country.
During the audition process, there’s a moment where the dancers ask if they could audition without being filmed – were you worried that the project might not work if the dancers were too aware of the camera?
When that situation with the dancers was happening, I really was upset. All the dancers had been informed about the project and had signed an additional release agreement about the filming.
A film like this only works if the people who are in the frame are comfortable with it.
Fortunately, for about 80 percent of the time, it was just me doing the filming, so that made it easier for me to become a fly on the wall.
Although the auditions and rehearsals are an overtly homosocial space, the observational style of filming minimises the homoeroticism of what we’re watching. Was that balance something that you were particularly aware of?
For me, it was interesting to see male nudity from different perspectives – not only as a gay gazing, but also as dancers see it themselves.
To be honest, I wasn’t consciously trying to avoid homoeroticism – the balance came out naturally.
You must have had a lot of footage to work with, did you have a clear narrative that you were building or was that something you had to find through the editing process?
Once I had all the footage, I wanted to work with a professional editor.
When you’ve done all the filming, and you know how difficult it was to get some of the footage, it’s always very difficult to kill your darlings.
But it was difficult to find an editor, and I eventually decided to edit everything myself. However, I wasn’t happy with the result.
The structure of the final version was improved a lot after I worked for several months on it with my assistant Joeri Verbesselt. Together, we found a storyline that connected to the development of the performance.
What do you hope that people feel when watching Bare?
In the final scene of the film, Thierry says – “Our body is the last territory of absolute freedom and it’s still bold to show nudity on stage. It’s not just erotic nudity or this is not obscene nudity. This is nudity, which is beautiful.”
If, by the end of the film, viewers are no longer paying attention to the nudity but are focused on the personalities, then my goal has been achieved.
Beyond the artistic merits of dance, there’s something kind of compelling about watching a naked man dance. When the body isn’t concealed or constricted by clothes, it is somehow more vulnerable – it’s a more intimate experience in every sense of the word.
Also, it’s interesting to watch how a man’s genitals respond during movement of the body.
Then, undoubtedly, there’s an erotic element to it. We’re used to seeing strippers dancing while taking their clothes off, we’re used to seeing go-go boys dancing without much on at all, but we don’t often get to see a naked man just moving his body for the joy of dancing.
Plus, it’s intriguing to think about what would happen if a guy got aroused while he was dancing, if he got hard – could you dance with an erection?
Originally from Australia, Gareth now lives in London. A non-smoker who loves to laugh, Gareth writes about all aspects of the LGBTQ experiences, with a particular passion for travel, sport, and films.
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