In his autobiographical novel, The Kindness of Women, JG Ballard glosses his experience of dissection as a Cambridge medical student thus: "As the four teams began to dissect this unknown woman, opening flaps of skin in her limbs, neck and abdomen, she seemed to undress in a last act of self-revelation, unpacking herself of all the mortal elements of her life".
Today I could undress, undo, wipe, dispose, dry, fasten, re-dress, swaddle and cuddle in a single fluid motion, like a master teppanyaki chef.
Swimming lessons, he explains, teach the very smallest to undress and dress themselves, which many have never tried.
Meanwhile, other worshippers slowly undress and then dress a statue of a saint.
NOT long after being snapped up by News Corporation in 2005, MySpace became a much emptier space when many teenagers who had used the social network to share music and photos of themselves in various states of undress decided it was no longer the cool place to be online.
A brief but frenzied bidding war greeted "Les Cariatides", a large painting of two languorous women in various states of undress, by Paul Delvaux, a Belgian surrealist.
This is where you can find the Bad Boys clothing store, its competitor Flashy Trash, and the nightclub Manhole, "home of the undress code".
Part of its charm is that it appears to have poured out of what the artist calls his "skewed" mind in a cascade of impish disorder.There are doe-eyed girls in various states of undress, smiling and languishingly carefree.
The collection also features special material that enables modest ladies to get a tan without having to undress.
With a Burberry and a number-three suit over his life-vest, Mr Briggs struggled to undress, ripping off his gas-mask and his battle-helmet.
A video circulated widely in 2007 showed his third wife, known as the "royal consort", at a formal dinner with the prince in a titillating state of undress.
