Ghandi: Conserve Your Semen

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into the intimate life of the Indian icon whose famous vow of chastity did not
prevent him sleeping with naked women and conducting bizarre sex
'experiments'.
'Gandhi: Naked Ambition' by British historian Jad Adams sheds new light on
the spiritual leader and independence hero whose spartan existence and
resistance to earthly pleasures are an integral part of his popular image.
The book has been released in Britain and will be available soon in India
where it is bound to make waves in a country where Gandhi's image is fiercely
protected and a source of national pride.

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<EMBED src="http://s0.2mdn.net/2392433/pca09_2010Apr06_300x250.swf?clickTAG=http%3A//ad.doubleclick.net/click%253Bh%253Dv8/3985/3/0/%252a/h%253B223861803%253B0-0%253B1%253B39581935%253B4307-300/250%253B36249353/36267231/1%253B%253B%257Esscs%253D%253fhttp%3A//www.asiaone.com/specials/pca2009/" quality=high wmode=opaque swLiveConnect=TRUE WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="250" bgcolor=# TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" AllowScriptAccess="never"></EMBED></OBJECT><NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT><!-- Zone Tag : SPH In-Text --><SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="http://cdn.innity.com/network.js"></SCRIPT>http://www.asia1.com.sg/<SCRIPT type=text/javascript src="http://as.innity.com/synd/69cb3ea317a32c4e6143e665fdb20b14/4564/js/**/**/NEWS/1272023916897"></SCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>That his attitudes to sex were censorious and unusual is well known. He
wrote of his disgust at himself for having intercourse with his wife Kasturba,
aged 15, when his father died in 1885.</P>In later life, having fathered four children, he forbade even married
couples in his ashram retreats from having sex and lectured men on the need to
take a cold bath when they felt lustful.
More than 60 years after Gandhi's death, Adams has gone through hundreds of
pages of his writings and eyewitness accounts to build a behind-closed-doors
picture of a man considered both a saint and the father of the nation in
India.
'One of things you find about Gandhi is how much he wrote about sex,' Adams
told AFP by telephone from his home in London.
'When we look at his sexuality, what happens is that he has a perfectly
normal sex life for the first part of his life, one that would be recognisable
to almost anyone in the world.
'He gets married and has a family of four.
'But what interested me was that he made a decision that it would be a good
idea to be chaste (in 1900). Six years later, he makes a vow and puts it into
practice.'
But contrary to the image of the abstemious Hindu ascetic, in later life
Gandhi frequently bathed with nubile young women, had nude massages and often
shared a bed with one or more of his followers, Adams' book said.
Adams says he has no evidence that Gandhi broke his vow of chastity with
any of the women, though he was defining the idea in a rather limited way.
'He's talking about penetration. However he's defining sex so narrowly that
he's ignoring a lot of activities that many people would consider sensual, if
not actively sexual.
'My interpretation is that he was expecting these women to try to stimulate
him sexually in order that he could demonstrate his resistance.'

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The sister of Gandhi's secretary, Sushila Nayar, was one of the women who
took part, as was his 18-year-old grandniece, Manu.
In other cases, the wives of men in his ashram were called upon to share
his bed, even though they were forbidden to sleep with their husbands, leading
to complaints from some of his most devoted male followers.
Adams believes the 'experiments' were like a game of striptease in which
there was non-contact sexual activity.
'He wanted to see if sex could be controlled because he felt it was such a
powerful force,' he said.
Gandhi's views and activities ' he also believed in conserving his semen,
which he saw as a source of spiritual energy '- did not endear him to fellow
independence leader and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
'Nehru considered them abnormal and completely distanced himself from
Gandhi's behaviour,' Adams said.
And what of Gandhi's long-suffering wife Kasturba, whom he married when he
was 13'
As with his long absences abroad, his sometimes indifferent treatment of
his children and frequent extreme fasts, she appears to have gone along with
the chastity and sex experiments, albeit reluctantly.
'She didn't give much credit to the restrictions on eating or seemingly any
of the things that he did, but she went along with them because she was a
devoted and devout Hindu wife,' said Adams.
The author says that Gandhi's practices were commonly discussed when he was
alive but after his assassination in 1948 the details were glossed over in his
elevation to the stature of national icon.
'I don't think that an understanding of any individual's sexuality
necessarily casts them in a poor light. To suggest it does implies a negative
view of sex, which I don't have,' he said.
Adams is a visiting research fellow at London University and has previously
written biographies of British politician Tony Benn, pioneering British
feminist Emmeline Pankhurst and India's Nehru dynasty.
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