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Eli Anthonyn ja mun sisäpiirivitsin selvitys meijän brittikavereille.. Ne oli mukana siinä, mutta eivät tienneet, mistä oli kysymys ja Anthony sitten selvensi asiaa näin:

Ok, so Aurora was always jibber jabbering on about saunas... I (in my mind) assumed it was like US saunas, an arid extremely hot room where you sit after a swim or workout...
So, one day when Aurora was taking me on some crazy tour through the backwoods of hylands park (which she knows well from her JBT days) I was constantly yammering on about how she was clearly taking me to the middle of no where to molest me... when she interrupted me (not that she was really ever listening in the first place -- remember that picture I have of her in flickr where she's mocking me talking), to ask what kind of tree she had found. It was a birch tree. She was so excited to have learned that English word, because they use that tree in Sauna...
Now I assumed they used it for aroma therapy or something (you know put it on the coals for a nice tree smell). Well, I decided to ask... what is this sauna thing all about, .why do Fins love it, and why do you use a birch tree...
She started by explaining to me that in Finland you sauna naked, and after sauna you go for a swim -- often in the ocean (clearly better than lakes). Mind you, they have to cut a hole in the ice in the winter to swim in the ocean... Well I found that an interesting piece of Finnish culture, I mean if I was forced to sit in a room with naked ladies I wouldn't mind (it's the dudes I'm not so keen on)...
So, I took it further, and asked about the birch tree... Well after she stammered a bit she said they use it to hit each other. "TO WHAT?" then she swatted me with a birch branch and said "you know, to hit each other." I must have given her a look like she had just walked out of a porn shop with more products than I knew existed. So, she exclaims "It's not kinky, because your family is there." While she may have thought this helped, it certainly did not! Now, in my mind Aurora's whole family is naked in a sauna hitting each other with birch branches...

As a result of her fantastic story, I had her tell it to nearly everyone I met (it wasn't really a day visitor experience as much as an Aurora was going to molest me in the woods experience). So, her "It's not kinky, because your family is there" exclamation shortened to simply "It's not kinky!" Anthony (UK) was so enamored by this phrase that he recorded it on his phone and made a ring tone (which he later sent me).