Male competitors sit in a sauna at the Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland August 9, 2008. The aim of the competition is to find out who can endure sitting in the sauna for the longest period of time.
Male competitors sit in a sauna at the Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland August 9, 2008. The aim of the competition is to find out who can endure sitting in the sauna for the longest period of time. REUTERS/Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva (FINLAND).
Male competitors sit in a sauna at the Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland August 9, 2008. The aim of the competition is to find out who can endure sitting in the sauna for the longest period of time. REUTERS/Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva (FINLAND).

There are some instances when cops have to be in disguise to catch suspects. In Austria, to stop people who use the sauna's steam room from engaging in hanky-panky behaviour, the owners of a fitness club in Linz needed special guards who must be present in the steam room to catch violators of the "no sex" policy.

That means the guards don't have any cover on their bodies when they went for a steam bath at the Parkbad fitness centre which has a growing number of complaints of customers indulging in sex, reports Heute.

Since the practice in German and Austrian saunas is all must be in their birthday suits only and covering of towels on private parts is frowned upon, it only meant the guards must be naked too.

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Just a week of "enjoying" their jobs, the guards caught two couples having sex. The four, who were all males, are now banned from Parkbad, which is open to both genders.

Before employing naked guards, a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were caught in October having sex and were booted out of a public sauna in Schaller Bach, a small town in Austria.