Sentence:  Recently , for example , a paranoid woman 's large-scale philosophizing , in the session , about the intrusive curiosity which has become , in her opinion , a deplorable characteristic of mid twentieth century human culture , developed itself , before the end of the session , into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially <WSD>exposed</WSD> breast , as indeed I was . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  with no protection or shield