• @Mojave@lemmy.world
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    22 months ago

    This dude preached abstinence, and then made his nieces massage, bathe, and sleep naked with him.

    “He had set up ashrams where he conducted his experiments, where boys and girls were to bath together, sleep together”

    “Rules were different for Gandhi himself, who had started to surround himself with women to challenge his resolve. In the 1920s, Gandhi had started resting his hand on the shoulders of young women during his morning and evening walks, whom he had jokingly referred to as his walking sticks. […] After this started elaborate daily massage performed by young women in the ashram. The massage was followed by taking bath, helped and accompanied by his female attendants.”

    “As time progressed, Gandhi’s experiments also had progressed, which now involved young women sleeping with Gandhi, naked. […] Apart from Sushila, his grandnieces Abha and Manu were his regular sleeping companion, along with other women in his Ashram.”

    https://www.opindia.com/2020/10/mahatma-gandhi-celibacy-brahmacharya-experiments-sleep-naked-bath-women/

    • threelonmusketeers
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      21 month ago

      Isn’t he also known for his propensity for nuking nations at the slightest provocation?

      • Rikudou_SageOPA
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        229 days ago

        That was a lovely bug turned feature.