I'm not super comfortable with my body, but I occasionally frequent saunas, and in my experience, there is very little "staring" going on in the mainstream ones

I'm not super comfortable with my body, but I occasionally frequent saunas, and in my experience, there is very little "staring" going on in the mainstream ones (obviously, there are saunas intended for orgies, pickups, etc, but that's a very different culture). Typically, just enough eye contact is made to avoid bumping into each other on the way in or out. Anthropologically, I've heard that cultural acceptance of staring at people is inversely correlated with amount of clothing worn, i.e. in cultures where people habitually live unclothed, it's considered rude to look at others' bodies. Of course, I'm old and fat, so I have good reasons for not fearing people being sexually attracted to me…