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I want to tell you a story about a man who became so obsessed with self-purification

that he demanded a number of women sleep in his bed wearing his few garments as possible

preferably naked while he embraced them throughout the night in order to prove he could not be aroused.

Years before at the age of 36 this same man decided to stop having sex.

He claims his wife accepted his decision to live in a sexless marriage though reports are

conflicted. Either way the goal was his enlightenment and so his celibacy began as well as his wives.

Well sort of I want to tell you a story about a man who slept naked alongside naked women to test

his dedication to celibacy after his wife died. The closest such female turned out to be his

grand niece who at age 17 was summoned to not only be his walking stick wherever he went

but also began undressing and lying with the 74 year old man and this was not her only duty.

In her extensive journals she chronicles the deli massaging of his body and bathing

and this ritual could take an hour and a half each morning as well as the cutting of his vegetables.

If the man were alive today we would recognize his eating disorder as orthorexia the constant

elimination of foods until you only eat one or a few approved vegetables for weeks or months at a time.

His quest for sexual purity extended to nourishment as well. There was another grand niece

and a female doctor all of whom slept naked besides this man who was a half century or more

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