This seeing each other is not just a participation in exterior perception of the world. Nakedness signifies the original good of God's vision. It does not know a rupture and opposition between what constitutes the person humanly and what in man is determined by sex - what is male and female. Seeing each other, as if through the mystery of creation, man and woman see each other even more fully and distinctly than through the sense of sight itself, that is, through the eyes of the body. They see and know each other with all the peace of the interior gaze, which creates precisely the fullness of the intimacy of persons.
Shame brings with it a specific limitation in seeing with the eyes of the body.
This takes place above all because personal intimacy is disturbed and almost threatened by this sight. At the same time, they communicate on the basis of that communion of persons in which, through femininity and masculinity, they become a gift for each other. In this way they reach in reciprocity a special understanding of the meaning of their own body. The original meaning of nakedness corresponds to that simplicity and fullness of vision in which understanding the meaning of the body comes about at the very heart of their community-communion. This deserves a careful analysis.