of them both were opened, and they understood that they were nude' (Genesis 3:7).







Reading intertextually the storyline of the rst fall of humanity through John







Milton's Paradise Lost, we can infer the shame brought about by nakedness







could not be disconnected from Adam and Eve's sensuality. The rst humans







were 'forfeit and enthralled / By sin to foul exorbitant desires' (Milton, 1966: