In this regime of purity, sex was a difficult subject. It was seldom discussed, and there were no bodies in advertising, or public displays of female flesh. If a magazine ever ran one of those features, ‘How to spice up your love life’, it was usually recommending a new hairdo or a hostess trolley. Meanwhile, for outsiders, it’s often been hard to reconcile the apparent contradictions: on the one hand, the horror of human exhibition, and, on the other, the devala statues with their sensuous bodily forms. ‘Westerners,’ an abbot once told me, ‘can never understand that it’s possible to be both
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1. The purity is still there. PDA is unacceptable.
2. The sensational women sculptures are ironical. I did not notice that.
3. Haredi people would relate to the saying that you can be sensual\erotic and holy at the same time.
