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3. A nun who indulges in unnatural acts has to be given a pacittiya.
4. If a nun while cleaning her uteras uses her two fingers in a manner exceeding the norm, then, she is to be given a pacittiya(39).
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It may be asked why the writers of these whole texts incorporated material which would appear to be no better than pornography, and that to in such an elaborate and exposed manner. In considering this, we must admit that those people who had written these texts were very much above sex and hence they were free from hesitation in this matter. Now, in such a delicate matter as sex, only two types of men may be free from hesitation, viz., first, moral wrecks and second truly saints. Surely, the writers of these texts belonged to the second category. Hesitation is a restrictive factor leading to incompleteness; but the writers of these texts who were naturally free were not liable to any such charge on account of hesitation.
There is a story in the Puranas (mythology). Threesages had once gone to the assembly of gods on some business. They were honourably seated on the right-hand side of Indra who is the king of gods, and so the whole assembly of gods was in front of the sages. Dances by heavenly nymphs started. At the sight of the beauty of the nymphs, the youngest monk shut his eyes and went into meditation. As the nymphs danced, they lost themselves in the dance and their divine garments were displaced. When the second monk saw this indecency on the part of the celestial damsels, he shut his eyes and went into meditation. The dance was still in progress, and in a short while, their garments dropped and the nymphs were completely naked. But the seniormost monk sat firm. On seeing this, Indra said,
"Oh Monk! How is it that you did not feel even the slightest hesitation to see the dance"?
The monk said,
"In the ups and downs of the dance, I did not find any difference. From the very first moment uptil now, I am in the same state of firmness".
