But the scene is more interested in emotional nakedness than it is physical nakedness.
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The first exception is: "The nakedness of your father and the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness" (emphasis mine).
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Instead, she scorns her torn garment and weaponises her nakedness.
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In their nakedness they wore flower crowns to symbolize chastity.
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Authenticity is nakedness, which onscreen means that it is sex.
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Gudetama, in its golden nakedness, questions the meaning of life.
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I don't mind looking at the nakedness of the women.
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Nakedness in art "such as sculptures and illustrations" is okay too.
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Inside the suite, nakedness and sexy variations thereof are highly encouraged.
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My fear had to do with the nakedness of the confrontation.
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At this point, I'm not much drawn to mirrors or nakedness.
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The show reminds us of our own nakedness, our own vulnerabilities.
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Even in their vulnerable nakedness, his nudes dominate the space they inhabit.
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Today, nudists complain, it is more difficult to separate nakedness from sex.
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It was like Eve in the Garden of Eden discovering her nakedness.
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" She says seeing nakedness as something bad is "so repressed and unhealthy.
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There was something unseemly about the nakedness of the marketing tie-in.
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His once handsome head totters and his nakedness makes us both shy.
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Lent, openly entered, gives guilt space, nakedness and, most important, narrative progression.
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So I'm curious if that nakedness you're speaking of speaks to that.
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They're chatting and changing, showering and walking, gleefully unaware of their own nakedness.
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I think what viewers find unsettling about Gagnier's work is their psychic nakedness.
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The source of my naked-in-a-dream embarrassment was never the nakedness.
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Due to the nakedness of components, the tabletop translation simply doesn't offer the same.
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To read Colette's literature is to be spellbound by its emotional nakedness and authenticity.
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It is worth noting that these new glosses render the idiom "uncover nakedness" incoherent.
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But thinking his nakedness is just a matter of sex is a shallow fallacy.
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Is rudeness like nakedness, a state deserving the tact and mercy of the clothed?
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"As a sculptor, I don't see nakedness, I just see sort of shape," Fiebiger said.
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After more than 60 years of brazen nakedness, Playboy's March issue is safe for work.
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The nakedness of his vanity and transparency of his ambition were always his biggest problem.
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Bruce's nakedness is presented matter-of-factly, and there's no one around who appreciates it.
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"We are searching for justice and it will be revealed in full nakedness," he said.
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With the decision to put away the pipe for good came feelings of transparency, nakedness.
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"That changes the narrative, so that you are not consuming their nakedness," Ms. Hinkle said.
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But she didn't want to undress for it; Bisnonna was uncomfortable being seen in her nakedness.
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It's not just a body-con cut that's responsible for the nakedness quotient on this look.
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I luckily avoided all violence and vomit, saw some nakedness, costumes, and some entertaining drunken antics.
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Director Denis Côté is not interested in their aestheticism or their nakedness and its homoerotic potential.
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This book is no more than a broken thing, a gap in the covering of nakedness.
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It seems to me though, that the nakedness that Menand describes trickles from something slightly different.
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Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye.
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The emperor in her birthday suit of lies, versus the boy in the street proclaiming her nakedness.
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In a society roided-out on bling, cash, ego, nakedness, and status, we have lost our authenticity.
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The thing is, Wrighty and Shearer do not seem to realise the full significance of Lineker's nakedness.
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The tiny brothel images with their forthright nakedness and caricature-like figures especially overturn his earlier precision.
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Mr. Erdogan has promised to reveal a truth "in full nakedness" in a political speech on Tuesday.
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But the vision of nakedness as a demonstration of freedom and equality seems to be faring less well.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to reveal in "full nakedness" what happened to Khashoggi on Tuesday.
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There was so much nakedness, to begin with—bodies stripped for torture or crucifixion, or for torturous pleasures.
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I am not as free as some people about bringing my son into an environment where there's nakedness.
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Salvador looks so vulnerable with his near-nakedness and arms akimbo, a vivid scar slashed across his torso.
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Jesus' nakedness is perhaps clearest in John 19, which depicts soldiers taking Jesus' undergarments to divide among themselves.
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He examines his paternal feelings and failings with a nakedness that was rare in fathers of a previous generation.
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Owen and Amelia wake up to Meredith and her kids seeing them on her couch in all their nakedness.
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There's just a jarring nakedness to Yonder that is incredibly hard to look past, even if you want to.
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There's no direct influence—we don't sound like Leonard Cohen—but we got from him an emotional intensity and nakedness.
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"By taking selfies, lounging, and sleeping completely nude, I grew comfortable enough to share my nakedness with others," she wrote.
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There's a nakedness to the way they interact with each other, and the way they navigate their own internal lives.
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So he veered from the high seriousness and idealism of his diplomacy to the self-defeating nakedness of his ambition.
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"There was something about the emotional nakedness of the music that really spoke to me," she said, strolling up Macdougal.
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Sometime later she placed her hand over her groin, as if she had only then become aware of her nakedness.
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But in fashion as we know it, nude has come to mean more the color beige than the concept of nakedness.
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Their emptiness, their nakedness, and their rawness suggests and alienation of land and culture, a loss of nothing we care about.
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These days there are plenty of other materials available to cover one's nakedness, a point that anti-fur activists readily make.
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The rest of us tended toward a more slothful nakedness; we swam, we sunned, we had picnics of cheese and wine.
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The culture celebrated nakedness as an icon of purity and the attainment of bliss as per the precepts of the Kama Sutra.
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Most people tend to forget that there is a certain amount of vulnerability and emotional nakedness that comes with sharing your experiences.
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Since Congleton was also "confident in his nakedness," Furtado felt comfortable chipping away at the facades she had built to sell records.
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Elsewhere the exhibition included an instance of nakedness so strikingly vulnerable that it stayed with me long after I exited the show.
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The artist, Mbuku Kimpala (pictured below), elaborates on her sculpture, stating that it represents the nakedness of all the women in the world.
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Independent research led her to a portion of the Old Testament that describes wearing clothing cut above the knee as equal to nakedness.
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During the scrub-down and exfoliating treatments, I was able to zone out sooner, to think less of the nakedness all around me.
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There is a nakedness to her face, as if now that she is unrecognizably unglamorous, we can finally see what she looks like.
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It is the nakedness, the exposure, the vulnerability of the flesh that makes it sacred, that manifests the fragile, sacred spark of life.
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Without glasses, his face was naked and keen and boyish, with a boy's shame, as if the nakedness must be smothered like a secret.
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And so the degradation of the Diarist's language, which has so appalled her newspaper critics, comes to represent a kind of nakedness in communication.
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But there is something about the nakedness of this confession, the brazenness of it, the cavalier-ness, that still has the ability to shock.
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In this painting, Actaeon gets torn to bits by his own hounds for having stumbled upon Diana in the woods in all her nakedness.
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But the concept, by not developing, becomes tedious rather than disturbing, and the choice to stop short of actual nakedness seems a failure of nerve.
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These pleasant folk, apart from their Biblical nakedness (for we are in a nudist camp), could be welcoming us into any well-kept American home.
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But every coping mechanism and substance that I used to help me through the day is now gone, and it feels a lot like awkward nakedness.
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The paradigmatic Dutch sauna might be Zuiver ("Pure"), a spa complex outside Amsterdam whose name subliminally links nakedness with the country's nothing-to-hide Calvinist morality.
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I knew shame, and I began to worry how other people, even the elder women in my family, would feel if they saw my nakedness, too.
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But here, the curation presents a Western visitor's romanticized vision of India as a magical land of color, light, holiness, enlightenment, collectivism, and carefree near-nakedness.
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While I accept that she is modest, covering her pudenda with a swirl of her head hair, she doesn't strike me as ashamed of her nakedness.
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The phrase can no longer denote sex if uncovering the nakedness of one's father is an act that also involves one's mother — as the gloss implies.
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The four duets that followed — North American premieres, by choreographers from Taiwan (two), Korea and Japan, two of them featuring nakedness — were exercises in naïve cuteness.
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She's an ideal of bodily, sexual, feminine beauty, and an immensely powerful one at that: "Her nakedness is genuinely divine," writes Jonathan Jones in the Guardian.
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If Nonna's home was my own Garden of Eden, by high school I had eaten the apple and was ruined by the awful knowledge of my nakedness.
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Click here to view original GIFBeing inside a sex doll factory and watching all that plastic nakedness get shaped is much more haunting than it is titillating.
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I confessed to the reader that the nakedness of the emotions I was describing, undefended against the pitiless glare of irony, made them embarrassing to write about.
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It was a child who, in innocence, pointed out what was clear to everyone in the throngs assembled to greet an emperor in his new raiment: his nakedness.
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He embraced the emotional nakedness of our generation's online personal brands, and started imbuing his confessions of loneliness with the wit that makes them worth the internet's time.
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But Ms. Damrau and Mr. Grigolo infused it with a winning combination of emotional nakedness and vocal refinement that brought out the subtleties and depths of the music.
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The more compelling nakedness on display is that of people revealed in the altogether of their atavistic impulses: the will to keep living and the fear of dying.
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A book called "Tropical Fish and Their Care" was a dud, and so was "Adventures in Nakedness," which he acquired thinking that nudism was about to catch on.
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Her nakedness earlier in the season meant brutal subjugation, but here it means she survived walking into a literal fire and emerged with three dragon children to boot.
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It's striking how many explorations of his past wind up focusing on the magnitude of his confidence, the scale of his ambitions and the off-putting nakedness of both.
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Hey, critics, commentators, and social media users: if you want more nakedness in your movies and TV, don't be so obnoxious, obsessive, and tittery about it when it happens.
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Last week Carson Palmer had to run across the field wearing a bikini top and skirt, and so it seems that the wager is approaching the asymptote of nakedness.
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Her new, ongoing project, Nothing but Light, was created with this in mind: In a culture that equates women's nudity with liberation, her subjects' nakedness instead makes them vulnerable.
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Public nakedness is common in the former G.D.R.: Of the 8 to 12 million nudists in Germany, the majority live in the east and are over 50 years old.
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An unclothed black man lying asleep on a bed, for instance, might be left with just an outline as opposed to being shaded so as to emphasize his nakedness.
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"There is a nakedness in [the subjects] that is rare in public — these people don't think that anyone is looking at them," Louis Menand wrote on Paul Fusco's photographs.
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During the course of Ways of Being, Berger introduces an idea posited by Kenneth Clark in his influential study The Nude—that of the difference between nakedness and nudity.
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When a powerful man exposes himself by forcing his nakedness on others, he's commanding their attention in a violent way, making them see what they don't want to see.
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The Bad Seeds studio craft is impeccable but there is an unfinished, unpolished nakedness to the songs, which emit the sense of moving through darkness as dense as matter.
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It is believed that soldiers and merchants gathered in these secret temples drinking, feasting and performing rituals that may have involved simulating death and rebirth, and even some nakedness.
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There's an emotional nakedness here, almost a reversion to childhood that is both completely understandable and often wrenching, but at times an impediment to really falling into these stories.
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The precept naturists hold the most sacred is body acceptance — to "not judge anyone by their body shape or other war wounds" and to ignore the nakedness of others.
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I'm interested in elaborating on that nakedness a bit more: whose stories are available and who do people have to know about in order to coordinate their own lives.
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The university also produced an explanatory video featuring study author Keon West, PhD, who says his team found "a very good correlation" between outdoor and/or group nakedness and happiness.
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Although it is possible Carbon made these choices as a critique of sci-fi's consistent tendency to exploit women, the sheer amount of nakedness often feels like objectification in itself.
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It was decreed that no one could gaze upon the nakedness of Artemis, the Stormy Virgin Goddess…unless, of course, they paid their subscription fee for the really good stuff.
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Being Eve involved emotional and physical nakedness, as well as intimate scenes that could occasionally veer into the ridiculous — one montage finds her clumsily experimenting with S&M by spanking herself.
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But at the same time, by its nakedness, it is as if that narcissism is being exhibited, and in this lies a conscious mind, someone saying, I know what I'm doing.
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had promised on Sunday to reveal "in full nakedness" what happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
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It's well known that Degas bridled at the term Impressionist, preferring Realist instead, and these fleeting, atmospheric landscapes, stripped to their smeary material nakedness, are about as real as you can get.
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While blurring boobs and crotches might not exactly be new work, the sheer amount of nakedness on Naked and Afraid has made it a full-time job for five visual-effects artists.
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Nakedness was swimming in the bay as the sunlight dimmed behind the apple trees, and when we walked down the street and men smiled at us, they didn't mean it like that.
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Yuja wore this fabulously gorgeous costume at the third concert—which had the electricity of the first one—and felt comfortable and happy in its defiant sexiness and her feeling of nakedness.
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Anyway, tricks of the trade (trade being: staying sane in this heat and trying to catch every breeze) include natural fabrics (cotton, silk), near-nakedness, and planning lots of trips to the beach.
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The non-player characters that inhabit the world aren't ignorant of Link's nakedness, and people have been posting some of the funny interactions that ensue when walking around in their tight blue undershorts.
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Indeed, in the Jewish religious law text the Talmud, it is declared that "hair on a woman is ervah," or essentially, "nakedness and impropriety" that should be covered once a woman is married.
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The justification for said potential nakedness doesn't matter: It could be an "I'm in love with you" grope; some "I need to get over my ex" third-base action; or full-on sex.
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Amber McCall: Naked performance art of 2015 either involved mundane nudity or "in your face" nudity like artist Milo Moiré's naked calendar, leading to the basic idea that nakedness isn't always sex driven.
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Ana tries to pull over any and all heavy objects, she lusts for speed and nakedness, she sticks her hand in a hole in a tree and pretends to pull out a baby.
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" This is typically understood as a euphemism for sexual intercourse, so "you shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister" would mean something like "do not have sex with your father's sister.
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" And yet Arendt herself was pessimistic about the quest for a proof of equality; in her view, the Holocaust had revealed that there was "nothing sacred in the abstract nakedness of being human.
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Cloths or clothing are widely considered to dirty the hot water pools, so nakedness is pretty much a given, aside from a very small towel you can clutch as you walk around the room.
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It requires a more general turn against the virtual, in which fears of digital nakedness are just one motivator among many — the political piece of a cause that's also psychological, intellectual, aesthetic and religious.
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The psychic nakedness we encounter in Gagnier's work shares something with Maria Lassnig's challenging self-portraits, which seldom gave a context or depicted a background because she was not interested in story or narrative.
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It's a book about censorship, political apathy, torture — "the nakedness / of the whole nation" — but also about tomato sandwiches, the birth of a daughter and the sudden, almost shocking joys of longtime married life.
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If we were to untangle our misogynist and/or repressive attitudes around nakedness to relinquish our urge to control what other people do with their bodies, the world would be much pleasanter for sex workers.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that he would disclose within 48 hours what his government knows — "in full nakedness" — about the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.
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In "Fur, Fortune, and Empire," the historian Eric Jay Dolin goes back to the Bible: Upon banishing Adam and Eve from Eden, he writes, God provided them with "garments of skins" to cover their nakedness.
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Divested of home and "the large effects that troop with majesty," Lear is forced to perceive the loneliness and nakedness of the human lot, and Ms. Jackson makes sure that we see him seeing it.
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Speaker, it has long been a thoroughly British trait to be able to ignore pointless nakedness, and I trust that the House will now be able to return to the issue that we are discussing.
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Sure, men also talk about politics and their personal lives once in a while, but bawdy jokes, GIFs, and videos featuring women in various states of nakedness are the glue that binds everything – and everyone – together.
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Clarke argues that nakedness is essentially an unknown property—you meandering about your empty flat of a Sunday morning waiting for the shower to heat up—whereas nudity comes into being under the gaze of another.
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The discipline of public nakedness rewarded our efforts in proportion to our degree of exertion, the euphoria of being in the moment a direct byproduct of battling the innate and unignorable weirdness of our collective situation.
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"One of the conversations within Jewish law has declared a woman's hair to be nakedness and part of the alluring nature of the effeminate," Rabbi Avram Mlotek, a Modern Orthodox-ordained rabbi who teaches in Manhattan, says.
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In the premiere of "Basketball," performed and choreographed by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith at the Howard Gilman Performance Space at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, nakedness was integral to a wholly serious, original, absorbing and peculiar production.
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The survey's newest work pulls back further: "Landscape Painting" (2019) depicts the interior of a room where a small framed pastoral scene hangs behind a busty woman, her nakedness amplified by her dangling necklace and lurid tan lines.
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After the cathartic nakedness of "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" which literally took on matters of life and death, "Going Into Town," which began life as a city guide for her daughter, feels genial but slight.
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The artifice of the staging suggests that there's something magical about the pair's instantaneous connection, yet it's also quite funny: Feet incongruously dressed in bright sneakers and jolly-looking socks, the two wear their nakedness like playful children.
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And as soon as they become more sentient—this is especially noticeable with Maeve (Thandie Newton)—their bodies are seen less and less, as if modesty is reserved for the thinking, or those who can feel shame at nakedness.
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What that did was reinforce the idea that the female body not only needed to be clothed, but that it needed to be rewarded and celebrated — and provided the everywoman with the handbook in feeling powerful in their nakedness.
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"If you read her history on the internet, she's painted as a wicked woman who doesn't like men, who sleeps with them and kills them in the morning because she doesn't want anyone to see her nakedness," said Ogunjiofor.
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Fifty erotic drawings titled Disko Girls, while individually not all that notable, collectively are undeniably fun, depicting naked women who appear jubilant about their nakedness as they pose at the beach, play music, and make love to one another.
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"The primary purpose of the bill is to protect the physical privacy of students from having to expose themselves, or be exposed to others, when in a state of undress or nakedness while at school or school functions," he wrote.
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"The primary purpose of the bill is to protect the physical privacy of students from having to expose themselves, or be exposed to others, when in a state of undress or nakedness while at school or school functions," Deutsch said.
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As the dancers move, you see all of those naked bodies, but the aura of nakedness keeps changing; the way the flag falls from the neck keeps altering the whole shape of the body and the lines of the dance.
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It requires a hefty suspension of disbelief that would have been easier to employ had the film been directed with more self-aware silliness Owen Glieberman, Variety: Lawrence makes her nakedness dramatic; she plays Dominika as shamed and proud at the same time.
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Think pieces galore have already been written about Westworld nakedness, from Kevin Fallon over at the Daily Beast calling the single orgy scene "a waste" to the very legit criticism about the offensive sexualization of host Bart by Kathryn VanArendonk in Vulture.
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"Pregnant Maria" is languid and proud, an almond-eyed odalisque whose nakedness is a conversation between women; Benjamin, a young black boy, is serious about sitting for this portrait, his hands shoved out of the frame like he's trying to keep them still.
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Both the Koran and the Hebrew scriptures explain that the need for clothes in the ordinary sense arose only after a terrible act of wilfulness which left man estranged from God, suddenly conscious of a nakedness that needed to be covered up.
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"I'ma wake up to my nakedness, 'cause I'm walking on the beat / We feel the love and we are not ashamed," he sings on the titular and final track, an echo of the quest for consciousness amid uncertain times spawned house music's origins.
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On album opener "Nakedness of Need," she screams about a "deep, serrated nausea" inherent to humanity over distorted synthetics, bombed out percussive thuds, and a particularly pukey drone that sounds something like the flutter of hummingbird wings, amplified to a painful extreme.
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The lack of respect is probably related to the nakedness of their often-freckled bodies, thrown into vivid relief by the fright-wig-like hair on their heads and the fluffy fur around their feet, giving them a frantic, slightly unhinged appearance.
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Appropriately, its production design — by a team that includes Takeshi Kata (set), Ben Stanton (lighting), Jill BC Du Boff (sound) and Caite Hevner (projections) — has a feeling of near nakedness, with no visible screens or conveniently multidrawered furniture for purposes of concealment.
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It's a skill that seems to have contributed to the band's continued success among their core audience of young men, as Turner delivers emotional nakedness without ever falling into overt mushiness (thanks, socialised masculinity.) The sheer, normal Britishness of his lyricism is also undeniable.
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An excerpt from "The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever:" Unlike public nakedness, which in Westerners is deeply circumstantial, relaxed as exam time, artless and equal as the corsetry of a hussar regiment, — shorts and their plain like are an angelic nudity, spirituality with pockets!
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And even at that, the expression of Gabriela Mistral being anteclassic, almost primitive, the ultimate explanation of her power upon Spanish-American thought can be found only in the simple and yet rare formula: originality is no more than sincerity, the heroic nakedness of the soul.
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Parker is not a trailblazer—Bon Iver became so enmeshed in the contemporary pop industry that he ended up accidentally producing a homophobic Eminem song—but the nakedness of this specific ambition says all you need to know about our culture's shifting tolerance for the pursuit of popularity.
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The effect of watching a film take on the internet is more a case of gizmo versus gizmo; like Black Mirror, its choreography employs all manner of state-of-the-art prestidigitation to make texting feel suspenseful, dramatize mundane clicking, or simulate the giddy nakedness of impulse-posting.
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Or: Would so many people have objected to Lena Dunham's unapologetic nakedness on Girls if, rather than simply portraying a young, single woman in Brooklyn enjoying sex, she had spent all those seasons using her breasts for the pragmatic maternal purpose of nursing a newborn, as she did in the finale?
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And though he could perhaps foresee the ruination that greed might cause (the East would soon be logged so bare that "every man would have to grow whiskers to hide its nakedness"), he had no inkling that we could damage the ozone or change the very climate with our great consumer flatulence.
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And the universe of patterns on granite—light as lattice, lacework, loose weave, a dress knit of light Madame Cézanne wears, skein unravelling, nakedness inside—bedazzlement—his complicated friend— surface and depth, grazing mouth on stone, light's long kiss, light's ripple, unruly, water unspooling, spooling down from the mountain, threads weaving together, coming undone . . .
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The Dasilvas were put on a police watchlist after authorities noticed their photo, and were arrested at the airport on their way back to the US. They've already been fined for public nakedness and could be blacklisted from visiting the country again, but according to the Bangkok Post, police are looking to slap them with additional charges.
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So for those who object inherently to our new nakedness, regard the earthquakes as too high a price for Amazon's low prices, or fear what an Augustus or a Robespierre might someday do with all this architecture, the best hope for a partial restoration of privacy has to involve more than just an anxiety about privacy alone.
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Watching this, I was dismayed but also fascinated: Ratner's flaunting of the butler's obsequiousness; the brazen sharing of his fleshy nakedness with the viewer; the implication that his business concerns were so pressing that he couldn't stop their flow for anything, not even in order to dress himself — the scene was, no question, a gross power move.
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Henri Matisse's "Nu au drapé" (1918) with its Orpheus-like interplay between clothing and nakedness, is probably included because the young Matisse studied under Moreau at École des Beaux-Arts, while Max Ernst's "Le Cimetière des oiseaux" (1927), a moody abstract work depicting a sort of skyline-forest of impenetrable browns and reds, certainly echoes Moreau's russet-colored natural-artificial landscapes.
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" (Chana Orloff does indicate that the neighbor might have thought Soutine was murdered because of the smell emanating from the studio above.) He elaborates in purple prose, describing the neighbors running upstairs and finding the artist "paddling in pools of blood, painting frenziedly at a grandiose nightmare canvas, in which reds and blues dripped pus-like on the soft warm nakedness of the flesh.
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What is one to think of the clothes the twenty-nine-year-old pianist Yuja Wang wears when she performs—extremely short and tight dresses that ride up as she plays, so that she has to tug at them when she has a free hand, or clinging backless gowns that give an impression of near-nakedness (accompanied in all cases by four-inch-high stiletto heels)?
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But on a deeper level, we also move from a 20th-century spy narrative, whose female characters exist as refractions of the ebb and flow of male desire — two beautiful mistresses of powerful men share "a jeweled brilliance and a kind of dressed nakedness"; the older woman working at the reception desk of a hotel turns pink "like a menopausal groupie" — to something that feels a great deal more contemporary.
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What ensued was an awkward and riveting 15 minutes of television, punctuated at intervals by references to it being 'cold in here' and so on, all of which added to the sense that this was a very British form of bullying in which a crowd of people gang up on a single individual, jeer at them until they strip down to their undies and then ridicule their nakedness, all in the spirit of extremely cruel fun.
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Most Americans knew this, but Monday's indictments and guilty plea as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, start to lay bare the rest of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's associates' nakedness — and guilt — on the issue of collusion.
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Should I have called Astrid with the physical details, pleaded my case with a skeptical sister who loved her parents and had every reason to, who had a great relationship with her parents, who wanted a happy family, should I have called her and shared my open wounds, exposed my nakedness, so painful, so shameful, so intimate, so difficult to talk about outside the psychoanalyst's consulting room, tell her things I hadn't told anyone other than my psychoanalyst, not even my friends, my boyfriends or my children because it hurt too much and was too physically intrusive, because I didn't want my nearest and dearest to have such images of me in their heads?
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