1. Mom guides it in
Mother speaking
"Mom." It was my daughter Aparna. She was on the South face of our L shaped veranda watching TV with her boy friend. I was on the sofa of the other limb reading a magazine. "Please close the front door and lock it up Mom."
"What mischief are you two up to?" I said.
"We're going to fuck, Ma." There was a pause. There had to be. Aparna was twenty and her boy friend was the same age.
*
I am a single mother. My husband left me for his secretary when Aparna was six months old. He is somewhere in the U.S. I know not where. I was seventeen when Aparna was born; my daughter and I have been very close to each other as I suppose single mothers and their daughters usually are. We were more like sisters who are friends. We discussed matters concerning sex very freely, but this was a different.
Aparna is a very open type of girl; and rarely did she shock me with her questions about sex. But once I was close to embarrassment when she came home earlier from college than expected and found my boss in the office having tea with me. Aparna of course knew Viswam well and gave no indication that she was suspecting anything unusual in our relationship. But the conversation we had after he left is green in my memory.
"Did you have sexual intercourse with uncle Mom?" The question was so abrupt that I was dumbstruck for a while. But I welcomed it for I had been wanting to tell her about my occasional affairs, but was never able to get an opening so far.
"Yes," I said. I was tense but her next question was so unexpected and so funny that the rest of the discussion was not only easy but also enjoyable.
"Did you do it in the missionary position or the lotus position Mom?"
I laughed. "Where did you get to know of these positions?"
"Shamu stole the book from her brother's box and we read it a whole afternoon. A big volume Ma, and full of photographs of people indulging in sex, Ma, real photographs and big pictures and close-ups and all that mostly in colour. It was marvellous. There are five positions Ma for sexual intercourse. It seems missionaries working in the South Sea Islands told their converts that the man on top with woman on her back position is the only position that is holy. Did you two do it in the missionary position Ma?
"Yes. A holy posture, and hence free of sin I suppose," I said and laughed.
"Did you have orgasms?"
"I did not."
"According to the book women do not have orgasms every time they have intercourse. You must have proper foreplay Mom, then only you will get orgasms."
"We were in a hurry. I was worried that you might be knocking at the door anytime," I said in a desperate attempt to guide Aparna away from the subject of foreplay.
"What if, Mom?"
"Open the door for you when partly dressed and dishevelled with Viswam lying half naked on the sofa? Unthinkable"
"Did you do it on the sofa Mom?"
I nodded.
"I wish I had come earlier. Mom, please do not bother about me. You can ask uncle to come anytime you want him and you can have it even when I am in the house. I promise to keep myself in the background."
"Reading your lessons?"
"No lessons, Mom. You think I can concentrate on my studies with all the exciting things going on in the house? No, Ma, I'll be keeping guard with my eye on the keyhole." She rolled on the sofa and laughed. Aparna then got up and looked at me with peculiar intensity.
"So you fucked this afternoon, Ma," she said and giggled. Aparna's eyes glittered with mischief. She got full juice out of the four-letter word. She sucked in her lower lip and shot it out. She read disapproval in my body language and apologised. "I promise I will use that word only to you and not even to my friends in school," she said. Then she hugged me and kissed me and said something that made that afternoon memorable.
"Mom your affairs are a secret I'd share with no one. I promise Ma with no one, and that is absolute."
*
"Why no answer, Mom? Any objection?"
"None at all."
"You don't need to worry. Sunil has a condom." Condom indeed. A planned session apparently.
"Why not the bed room. More privacy there."
"We like this place." That was reason enough for my daughter. "As for privacy, " she continued, "you are the only one, and you are welcome to peek." She burst out laughing. I went to the front door and noisily did the bolts. I was excited at the thought of my daughter having sex. I could feel my wetness already. I am thirty-six, a juicy age in sexual terms. I have had affairs with many men. I did not want a stable relationship for I did not want marriage again, and the status of kept women was abhorrent to me.
I was seated hardly eight feet from where Aparna and Sunil were making love.
"I lovely pair you have." It was Sunil. My daughter did have a wonderful pair of breastsβlarge with the classical mango shape as depicted in temple sculptures. She was on the short side, like me, and her face, which she has inherited from her father, let her down somewhat. She had blob nose and large sensuous lips. Her eyes were large, round and lovely. Where she got those from I know not. She had a bubbly infectious charm to cancel out the less desirable features in her make up.
"You can do better than rub your cheeks on that," said Aparna. Men do not take kindly to criticism of their sexual expertise, but Sunil did not seem to mind.
"How do you know?"
"Roopa told me."
"Who Roopa, the married senior who is your friend?"
"Friend and mentor in matters concerning sex."
"What did Roopa say one should do?"
"Suck my tits."
"Here goes." I heard slurping sounds.
"Sunil, if a baby does what you are doing it will soon die of starvation."
"I am sucking am I not? Sucking till my cheeks ache."
"You must bite, like babies do."
"Silly, babies can't bite for they have no teeth"
"That's why they have no teeth, so that they can bite without hurting. Suck in your lips to cover your teeth and then bite as hard as you can. Nature has designed nipples to stand biting. Your lips will give up before my tits complain."
"Roopa told you this also."
"This and many more."
"You mean you talk of these things?"
"Why not? One wants to learn. That's why we go to college." Aparna found it funny. She giggled. "You men won't talk of these things. That's what Roopa says. She says that you all think or want everyone else to think that you are masters in the art of sex."
"Its lovely Sunil. Now take in a few deep breaths and work on the other one. You don't have to twist you neck to reach it Sunil. I'll hold it up as I would to my baby."
"Why don't you remove that blouse and bra and throw them away. They are rubbing my face."
"Let them be."
"I wish your Roopa advises you on that also."
"Hmm," said Aparna.
"Why, has she?"
"She has. She says that women should do the little things that men want like removing the clothes, and having the lights on etc. She says it will go a long way in assuring amity in their relationship."
"Why don't you?"
"I'm feeling funny Sunil. This is the first time, later, most certainly. Disappointed?"
"Yes, Apar. When I heard you use the four letter word to your Mom I thought you had no inhibitions."
"That word I use in a matter of fact way. Mom doesn't."
"Now back to your friend Roopa. If ever you friend Roopa writes a book on sex please ask her to reserve a copy for me," said Sunil, taking time out from his task to make the reservation of a future bestseller.
I was glad that Aparna has taken my advice and talks openly and even aggressively about sex to her man. False modesty in women comes first in causes for messing up the sex life of couples. Running close second is pigheaded arrogance in men about their sexual knowledge. Aparna has no inhibitions and Sunil has already shown indication of willingness to learn. I was happy that my daughter's sex life was going to be a happy one.
I heard some moans, more hissing than moaning. My legs became weak and I felt moisture between my thighs. The tension was becoming unbearable.
"Bite just a bit more firmly. It's divine, Sunil. Ahhh." And a while later, "What are you doing with my skirt."
"Removing it of course, what else."
"Please, Sunil, not today. Next time, I promise. This time just lift my skirt." There was silence for a while.
"Its as smooth as marble."
"No Sunil. Don't touch, Sunil."
"Do you shave, Apar?"
"Yes."