Extremely careful though he was Chandru knew his wife would one day catch him with the goods. It happened that Saturday evening. He heard Malavi open the door. He was not to blame; the mouse stalled and he was not able to get the cursor fast enough to the upper corner of the screen to close the file. Malavi was standing behind him staring at the monitor. The amply endowed woman on the screen was very pretty, and she was fully unclothed.
"So this is what you do when I am not in the house, watching this type of women," she said. Chandru was strangely defiant.
"You are talking of them with scorn. They are not ordinary women. They are women doing a vital service to me and millions of other men whose wives are unmindful of their duties and responsibilities." This was a topic on which they frequently have skirmishes, but today Malavi's focus was on other things.
"Scroll up," she said. Chandru did. "Scroll down." He did. The same pretty woman appeared in different poses. "Stop," she said. The image was particularly juicy. The woman sat on the steps of a building with thighs spread apart, and the photographer had taken the shot at such an angle that her pussy was visible. Malavi snorted.
"Please click the 'back' arrow. I want to see the title page." Chandru did so.
"You mean on this date so many have contributed photographs."
"Yes, and every day. I have highlighted the file we were watching."
"Wife enjoying herself," she read, and continued reading. "'Wife first time', 'Hot wife', 'Shy Wife.' Most seems to be photographs of wives."
"Yes, many are indeed the wives."
"Why should these men want to parade the nakedness of their wives?"
"May be models are expensive and..."
"And?"
"May be the men get a kick out of it."
"What do you mean kick?"
"It turns them on."
"Really. Very odd, I should say. And their wives, would they be turned on too?"
"Apparently so, or else why should so many of them pose."
"May be it is acceptable in Western culture. Do Indian women take part in this type of practices?"
"The language of sex is universal, darling. Women of the Kama Sutra country are not likely stand back and watch others steal a march over them."
"Could you show me one or two?"
He scrolled down the list. "Here is one, 'Lovely Indian' it says." He clicked and waited for the display to download fully.
"Now see," he said and scrolled down picture by picture.
The first picture was of a woman fully clad in a blue sari of shiny material standing with back towards the camera. In the next frame she was in her skirts and blouse, and in the next in bra and knickers and then in knickers alone, and finally totally naked. But she was all along facing the wall. Malavi did not comment.
"Is that all?" There was one more. This was different. It appeared as if the woman wanted to reward those who had been patiently with her till then. In this frame she was reclining on a sofa with face turned away as if in shame, but the rest of her body faced the camera with a particularly good view of her clean-shaven pussy. Chandru waited for his wife's comment, but she turned about and left the room. The rest of the day she did not mention the episode.
The next evening when Chandru was surfing he found that in his absence his wife has been accessing both the voyeur sites he had book marked. She did not have the computer savvy to erase her tracks, and even if she had it as not in her nature to hide what she does. It was same the next day and the next. On the third day during the quiet hour after supper she came and sat by his side.
"Darling, it is about your naked women sites on the computer."
"Easier if you say voyeur," he said cautiously.
"OK voyeur sites."
"What about them?"
"For the past three days I have been viewing everything they have to offer this month."
"You mean you gobbled. I only surf."
"Viewership they claim is in the millions," she continued ignoring his slur.
"Why not?"
"Chandru, I do not know what is happening to me."
"What's the problem?"
"I have an overpowering desire to post in the voyeur site."
"You mean you want to appear in them in varying stages of nudity?"
"That's it, Chandru. I am shocked and I am sure you are too. I never would have suspected that I suffered from a paraphilia."
"What paraphilia?"
"I am an exhibitionist, Chandru. Suddenly it has come upon me. I do not know what to do?"
"Did you have the feeling to expose before?"
"I suppose my desire to stitch blouses with half a metre of cloth can be classed as a manifestation, and my swim suit is pretty daring for this town."
"But did it thrill you to be seen that way."
"I am not sure Chandru, but I think I liked it, though not quite thrilled."
"Why not post and be done with it?" Malavi was stunned. It was not what she expected her husband to say.
"You mean you would not mind my appearing in the nude in that public forum?"
"No one would know it is you. To be frank Malavi it would be fun, and a turn on for both of us."
"I am confused, Chandru. We will sleep over it and discuss it later. Please do not broach this topic. I will, when I am ready for it." She left for business in the kitchen.
For the next two days Malavi in his absence visited the voyeur sites, but did not speak to Chandru about it. Early morning of the third day Malavi shook him by the shoulder to wake him for a sound sleep.
"Nothing is wrong with me," she said. Chandru stared blankly with bleary eyes.
"Darling, please. You can't wake me up at five in the morning and come out with a statement like that. It's not fair. Anyway who said anything is wrong with you."
"I did. I thought I was an exhibitionist. Now I know I am not."
"Why do you say that?
"Say what?"
"That you are not an exhibitionist?"
"Because I am not."
"But you want to post in those voyeur sites."
"Yes, I want to post."
"Then why do you say you are not an exhibitionist?"
"Because I am not."
"Are you OK Malavi?"
"Perfectly. Listen carefully. I'll explain."
"Women want to be appreciated."
"Men too."
"Yes men too, but women crave for it. One easy way for women to do so is with their bodies, man's mind being what it is. That is why we have sleeveless blouses, and padded bras, and minis and all that."
"So?"
"Posting in voyeur web sites comes in that category."
"Why is it not exhibitionism? You have not explained that."
"Because she derives no sexual satisfaction from it."
"But it is a turn on. That is sexual satisfaction, is it not?"
"No. It is just a stimulant to have sexual satisfaction in the usual way. To an exhibitionist the act itself is satisfying."
"So."
"We are going through the voyeur posting without any qualms."
'OK, now let me sleep. I have an important presentation to do this morning. You keep thinking about it. We will plan it after supper today."
"You can also do some thinking."
"Darling not today. I have more important things to do."
After supper Malavi cleared the dining table and came straight to the drawing room. She plucked the newspaper out of Chandru's hands and sat in front of him. She had a sheet of paper in her hand that she was waving like a banner.