*Ghandhi slept with naked women including his grandniece | BBC* - Mahatma Gandhi conducted controversial experiments to test his vow of celibacy (brahmacharya) by sleeping naked with women, including his grandniece Manu (who was a minor at that time) and other close female associates. - He claimed this was to test his self-control and demonstrate spiritual discipline. - Gandhi had married at 13, and taken a vow of celibacy when he was 38 and the father of four children. In doing so, he had been inspired by a Jain seer named Raychandbhai and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who became celibate in his later life. (Jainism is an ancient Indian religion of harmlessness and renunciation.) - In his autobiography, Gandhi had written how guilt ridden he was by the thought that he was having sex with his wife when his father passed away. Source: 1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45469129 2. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49848645