[Gandhi's experiments]...began after he complained of nightly
"shivering fits" and requested that various young women --teenaged
virgins or newlyweds--sleep next to him to warm him. Sushila Nayar,
who later became his physician, masseuse, and secretary, was
unaffected by her nights next to the man they affectionately called
Bapu.
But Abha Gandhi, Bapu's great-nephew's six-teen-year-old wife, had
a different experience. She had to remove her clothes so Gandhi
could judge whether he, like Ramananda, was sufficiently chaste to
be unaffected by her nakedness. Abha's husband was so distressed he
offered himself in his wife's place; he, himself, would keep the
old man warm at night. But no, Gandhi wanted Abha for his
brahmacharya experiment.
Another teenager, distant cousin Manu Gandhi, bathed and shaved
Gandhi, monitored his physical condition during his fasts, gave him
enemas. Manu reveled in the status these intimacies earned her and
the edge she aquired over other women jockeying for position in
Gandhi's affections. Gandhi, meanwhile, congratulated himself on
his unresponsiveness to the warmth of her body next to his and the
sensation of her hands as she ministered to him. Manu headed the
list of nubile young guinea pigs in the brahmacharya
experiments.
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Source: "A History of Celibacy" by Elizabeth Abbott
Even a great guy like Gandhi kenna discussed........it's difficult
to maintain privacy if one is famous......
