By now our favorite spa should be hip-deep in the renovations they’ve been planning for months and months — but those renovations have been delayed, and that means we got the opportunity to indulge one more time before the sledgehammers come out.
Fourteen of us showed up, a mix of old-timers and first-timers (a couple of second-timers, too), and spent the better part of an evening soaking in tubs filled with rose petals, whole lemons, and herbs that put us in mind of chicken soup…
…as well as baking in the 180-degree heat of a sauna supposedly fashioned of precious stone. (It’s definitely stone. Whether the stone is precious or not, who knows? But the sensation of being in there surely is.)
And for the record, naked is definitely the way to soak in a hot tub or lie in a sauna. Who in the world would prefer having a clingy wet swimsuit on, or a heavy robe, or even a towel? You want your skin exposed to the warm air, the warm water. The idea of a spa that requires you to cover yourself is like a mani-pedi place that requires you to wear gloves and Doc Martens the whole time.
There were also massages for everyone and some delicious Korean barbecue with soju to finish the night. Delicious all around.
And now it’s April! We probably have one more indoor event in us before it’s warm enough for us to meet outdoors, but it’ll start feeling like spring before you know it. We’ll be out in Central Park, bare as the law allows, enjoying the sun and the breeze and the freedom. Wouldn’t you like to join us sometime? If you’re a body-positive woman in the New York area who might like to discover what it feels like to take your shirt off in the park with a group of other warm, friendly, like-minded women, send us email: toplesspulpfiction@gmail.com. We welcome the bold and the merely curious and everyone in between.
And we would love to hear from you.
That top picture is really lovely – warm and evocative and superbly framed!
The only way to really enjoy spa treatments and a sauna is naked, I hate it if I have to sit in a towel or wear something. But then I spend virtually all my time naked anyway.
Sounds like a great time! Can we expect photos of the subsequent massages?
I’m afraid not. Some things need to stay private. 🙂
Sounds like a perfect event!
Good day, what is the purpose of the lemons in the water, never saw this
Decoration? They smell nice? Something to play with in the water?
OCTPFAS soup! Delicious indeed.
PS I assume the 10 Pulsating Modes refer to stirring the pulses in the soup? Or were pulses stirred in some other way… 😉
“Who in the world would prefer having a clingy wet swimsuit on, or a heavy robe, or even a towel?”
Now that you said that, it really hit home to me how it truly doesn’t make sense to do so in a sauna. Like taking a bath with clothes on. Indeed, pretty perplexing.
If you lot are ever in London, I can point you in the direction of a naturist spa there.
Luckily living in Germany where it is normal to be nude in a sauna.
Great poses and I have only really found relaxing nude spas in the NL, where it is quite normal.