A group of regular visitors to a Swedish swimming pool wrote an open letter criticizing some pool-goers for refusing to strip down in the showers and saunas.

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The open letter, published in Stockholm's Sodra Sidan newspaper, criticizes some visitors to the Skarholmen public pool for flouting hygiene-oriented rules requiring full nudity in the showers and saunas, The Local reported Friday.

"This is a difficult subject to bring up, as it is often dismissed as prejudice, as if we are judging a specific group in society or pointing our finger at 'immigrants,'" the letter reads.

"If this is a matter of timidity, they could always wear a towel wrapped around them in the sauna or turn away in the showers," the group wrote.

Thomas Lindell Taylor, manager of the public pool, said the issue may have more to do with a generation gap than immigrants. He said his observations indicate the problem is one of younger visitors to the pool simply ignoring the posted rules.