Chris and Jack were enjoying a gap year. They had both left home and were waiting to go to university and did what all spirited youngsters do - decided to work their way around the world picking up jobs on the way to keep them just about solvent.
Currently they were in one of the Gulf states and were employed as waiters in one of the plush hotels in the desert kingdom.
It was evening and they were both serving at table. Suddenly there was a flurry of activity. A hugely rich and powerful sheikh had arrived with his entourage!
Chris and Jack were quickly bundled out of the way. It was explained to them that because they did not know the etiquette required to come face to face with His Eminence the sheikh and they should make themselves scarce!
They were about to go back to their room when one of the senior members of the hotel staff waylaid them.
He was quite flustered and told them in broken English that they were required to meet the one of the sheikh's party. This was unheard of! Why should the sheikh be the slightest bit interested in two English teenagers?
Nervously they were taken to a room and waited. Eventually a huge bearded Arab entered the room.
"Are you boys ready to be taken to the Sheikh's palace," he said.
Chris and Jack immediately thought, why not. It would be an experience and perhaps they might be offered some temporary work.
The upshot was that they hurriedly collected their few belongings and after telling the night manager at the hotel they were leaving, were taken in a plush Mercedes off-roader. The journey lasted at least four hours and the car finally arrived at the gates of what can only be described as a magnificent if remote palace somewhere in the middle of the desert.
Chris and Jack were shown to separate rooms with an adjoining door. They were even given silk pyjamas with the Sheikh's family logo embroidered on them and were soon fast asleep.
Suddenly in the morning two huge Arabs entered Christopher's room. The Arab who they saw the previous evening was now joined by an even more ugly looking man.
Neither of them appeared to speak English but Christopher was suddenly grabbed by a huge Arab with an evil grin on his face. Whilst one held him the other pulled his trousers and underpants off. Chris struggled but could do nothing as one of them clamped a steel cage around his genitals and firmly padlocked it. Jack opened the door to see what the commotion was about and was immediately seized and stripped and the steel contraption was firmly locked on
They were each slung under the arm of their assailants as if they were mere dolls and taken to another part of the palace where they were met by a small group of young men who looked as if they were also mere teenagers.
The Arabs left and Chris and Jack were surrounded. It was explained to the two horrified boys that they were in the sheikh's personal male harem!
"Have you got your chastity belts on yet?" asked one of them with a grin on his face. "They are there to stop you playing with yourself so that you are good and ready for The Master when he chooses you to his bed. We all have to wear them."
"Yeah," said another boy, "and also so that we don't enjoy you first," and the others laughed.
"You will be kept like that for at least a week while the doctor examines you for any nasty diseases."
"By that time," said another boy, "you will be gagging for sex and ready for The Master's bed."
Chris and Jack were sick with worry. They could see that the boys were holding hands and kissing each other and the thought of what would happen to them in the sheikhs bed...
Soon they were summoned to see the doctor. An attractive Arab woman in western dress underneath a white coat and with a stethoscope around her neck.
"So what have we here?" she asked in perfect English. "You boys have been chosen by His Eminence the sheikh for his enjoyment. "Are you excited and looking forward to pleasing His Eminence?
"Before you do I must carry out a check for sexually transmitted diseases and these will take at least week."
Christopher spoke first. "There has been a terrible mistake," he explained. "We thought that we had been invited to the palace perhaps to do some casual work because we are working our way around the world on a gap year."
"You mean to say that you are not gay?"
"Of course we are not."
"Oh dear, Oh dear, that is most unfortunate. Most unfortunate. If the sheikh takes you to his bed only to find that you do not enjoy his sexual appetite he will be furious. There is no telling what he might do. I will have to report this to His Eminence. Have you had your chastity belts put on yet."
Chris and Jack were humiliated and shocked that the doctor would know this. "Yes we have," they said. It was awful. "We were taken to this room where all the sheikh's boys are kept."
"Well, I have no choice but to return you there whilst I try and sort this mess out."
The boys were returned to the male harem and were once more surrounded by the gay youngsters.
"The Master despises straight boys," said one of them. "There is no telling what he will do with you.
You will just have to lay back and enjoy The Master. We do," said one of them and they all laughed.
They overheard a heated argument going on outside. Eventually the door opened and a women entered. "I have just been informed that a mistake has been made. Are you two really telling us that you are not gay?! "His eminence the Sheikh is going to be furious."
"Why, what have we done?" asked Jack. "We were just invited to the palace, that's all."
The woman waved her hand dismissively. "It may not be your fault she said, but now that you are here we are not sure what to do with you. She repeated herself. "Are you really telling me that you are not gay?"
The boys were aghast. "Of course we are not," they both exclaimed.
"That is most unfortunate. Most unfortunate."