标题：The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity

A columnist bares all in pursuit of the naked truth

正文：Man is born naked, but everywhere he is in clothes. Well, nearly everywhere. Visit a sauna in Denmark, bits of public parks in Germany or many a beach in France and clothing becomes as scarce as office workers at the height of August. Mortifying as it may seem to the clothes-minded, Europe is the spiritual home of nudity: a continent where enough people (in some countries more than others) are happy to show off their private parts in public places that it has long since lost the ability to offend. Yet a cloud is hanging over those who eschew bathing costumes.

知识点：sauna n.

a period of time in which you sit or lie in a small room (also called a sauna ) which has been heated to a very high

temperature by burning coal or wood. Some saunas involve the use of steam.桑拿浴；蒸汽浴

a hotel with a swimming pool and sauna带游泳池和桑拿浴室的旅馆

to have/take a sauna 洗桑拿浴

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