[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......
