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For ten years Damcho Dyson’s only habit was her plain religious robe – but now she has swapped it for something more stretchy.

Damcho lived a simple life of chastity and was once an attendant to the Dalai Lama.

But she says a massage while on a trip to India reawakened her sexuality – and turned her into Britain’s ­naughtiest nun.

And now, after quitting her Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France, she spends her weekends cavorting in latex at fetish clubs.

The 45-year-old told the Sunday People: “I’d been celibate for 10 years and, as a nun, my practice meant my brain was able to override my bodily needs.

“Lying there having that massage I had an epiphany. I suddenly had a sense of the vitality within my body and decided the time was right to leave the monastery.”

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But it wasn’t until she ended up in London in 2011 and passed the window of a shop selling fetish clothing that Damcho realised wearing rubber could fill the Buddha-sized hole in her new life.

“I’d been a nun for ten years and was open to new opportunities so when I spotted the shop I thought ‘why not’ and headed inside,” she says.

“The first time I tried on latex I felt empowered. It compliments the female form and somehow felt reminiscent of the ritual wearing of Buddhist robes. The shop owner and I became friends and she introduced me to the latex scene.

“I went to a club feeling all ­risqué, but I looked at other people wearing top-to-toe latex and rubber masks and realised I was actually quite conservative.

(Image: Sunday Mirror) (Image: Sunday Mirror)

“I find the whole thing amazing and intriguing. It’s really liberating.”

Damcho, of Wandsworth, South London, was 23 when she first thought about being a nun, but didn’t leave her native Melbourne, Australia, for Nepal until six years later.

Despite her vows meaning she never had children Damcho – who is crowdfunding her PhD exploring human rituals – says she has no regrets.

“I travelled around the Himalayas,” she says.

(Image: Sunday Mirror)

(Image: Sunday Mirror)

“It was incredibly ­enriching and inspiring for me. But now I want to continue my contemplative adventure using a different medium.”

She says: “I still feel a bit like a naughty nun.

“But I’m a middle-aged woman who has ­always liked to express ­herself so why not?

“I’m finally letting my hair down when I once used to shave it all off.”

Damcho is raising money to fund her PhD. You can donate here