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Russian baths
Russian baths (or banyas) are traditional bathhouses featuring hot steam rooms, cold plunges, and often social rituals that have been central to Russian culture for centuries.
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In the Psycheverse
Psyche uses Russian baths as a case study in cultural attitudes toward the body and nudity, contrasting them with other traditions like Turkish oil wrestling and Korean saunas. The topic surfaces when examining how different cultures normalize embodied vulnerability and communal cleansing as spiritual or social practices rather than purely functional ones.
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