Naked Goddess: Stories of Beautiful Women Bathing: Spine or cover has flaws

Author: Jaclyn Keren
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The naked woman presented in nature, in water, they are goddesses. An indescribable beauty, a sacred love. The stories in this book come from ancient history in Mesopotamia, Greece, India, China, and France, telling the relationship between naked women and water, presenting the most primal and perfect scenes of naked women bathing, reinterpreting the female body and its primal beauty. It also weaves through themes of mystery and taboo, the secular and the sacred, sin and punishment, love and loyalty. When a woman removes her clothes and bathes freely in a spring or at the waves, there is always a man hiding nearby, watching this extraordinary scene. The interplay of male gazes and naked beauty, desire and taboo, elegance and curiosity unfolds in the entire mythological world.