A: There are many references in the Kama Sutra, the Indian book of love, on adorning the body. In most of the art of the Tantric period we see partial nudity. Woman's breasts are generally uncovered. In the Indian temple carvings people in sexual coupling of all varieties are partially and completely nude. The Tantric teachings hold the body in reverence. Bathing, anointing, massaging and adornment are all addressed in the Kama Sutra as part of the sixty-four arts of love that women and men should know.

In the West we have inherited a view of the body that is negative. Nudity often seems like a reaction in our culture. We have nudist camps and pornography and a view that nudity should be hidden away. In the cultures of the East and elsewhere we see that a more accepting and natural view of nudity exists.