In this story the author probes a strange desire that all men have in one degree or the otherβto see their wives sexually attractive to other men. This wish has a wide spectrum. At one end is the universal desire to marry a beautiful woman, or see one's wife attractively dressed for other men to admire and fantasise. Activities like ball room dancing are another outlet for this desire. At the red end of the spectrum we have men posting their spouse's nude photos in voyeur sites. When one reads reader's comments to these postings one feels that it is the crudely expressed demand for sex with the woman that the husband is dangling for. Swinging life style is another. All who have studied swinging agree that to see the wife have sex with another man is more important to the husband than have sex with that other man's wife. The following story is a functionalised version of a true case study that came to the notice of the author.
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I was lucky, very lucky. To an author whose desire is to probe the nooks and corners of human sexual practices nothing better can happen than finding in the corner of the attic of his newly purchased house a small wooden box containing a rolled up manuscript of the sexual history of the former owners. The question of whether it was correct on his part to have read the story is irrelevant for no way could he have stopped reading it once he had started. A week later the couple who sold the house appeared. They said they have come to recover a box they had left in the attic. They took it and went away. Knowing their history the author scrutinised them carefully, and had to admit that he have never seen a happier and better adjusted couple.
The lady must have written her story. She had apparently written it whenever she was in a mood for it. Some were on formal note paper, some on the back of typed sheets, and some even on the space available on envelopes. She had connected them all together in proper order with that celebrated device of sub-continent bureaucrats, the Indian tag.
Other than adding a few missing punctuation marks the author has made no changes.
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My story is very strange. I love and cherish my husband as much as I would my baby, and I am absolutely faithful to him. But when you read my experiences you would call me an untruthful slut, and a disgrace to womankind. I have no doubt of the purity of my actions. Please read with an open mind. In matters concerning sex the world at large is very narrow minded. Please do not classify sexual practices as good and bad. Anything between consenting adults that does not harm others is good. Strange my story may appear to be, but I know from the reading of literature that my husband and I belong to a type that is by no means unique or even rare. The variations in human sexual behaviour are so wide that niches are there for even the most bizarre.
I came to the U.S. with my parents when I was ten years old. My parents were both doctors. They passed away under tragic circumstances five weeks after my marriage. I have a brother who is three years my junior. My school years I spent in New York. When I was twenty my parents arranged a match for me to an Indian born in America. My husband and I live in Edison NJ, a town that teems with Indians. We have a son aged four. I am 27 years old and my husband thirty.
One weekend my brother, a bachelor, who lives and works in Buffalo NY, came on a weekend visit. He stayed overnight and left in the afternoon. That evening after supper the following very significant conversation ensued.
"Your low necked blouse turned Sunil inside out," said my husband Brij. His name is Brijesh.
"I did not notice any change in my brother let alone 'turning him inside out'. Why do you say that?"
"He had an erection almost the whole afternoon. Not good to have so much blood sequestered in that organ. His organ, as you might have observed, is large." Sunil is six footer. I laughed. Incidentally it is not unusual for us to talk this way of sexual matters. "His eyes," continued my husband, "were darting constantly at your deep valley."
"Is it bad?"
"By no means. It is natural, and in my opinion quite proper even between brother and sister. You seemed to get excited too in exhibiting. That again I hasten to add is proper even between brother and sister."
"I feel you have something to say; please do so without padding around," I said.
"I have a problem."
"With what?"
"With me. A serious one. I am having this desire for a long time now, and I feel that I have to do something about it."
"Is there something I can do to help?"
"You and you alone can help me."
"Then tell me. You should have much earlier." He hesitated for a while and then he spoke."
"I want to see another man have sex with you," he said. I jolted back. "Surprised?"
"Of course I am surprised. Let me get this clear. You want me to commit adultery, and while I am at it you want to be an observer."
"Adultery is too big a word, but anyway that's right."
"Are you OK Brij?"
"Of course I am. May I point out that many men have that desire. Have you seen these voyeur sites?
"I have. I know you never miss a daily dose of it."
"I do. You would have noticed that many of the women pictured in various stages of nudity are the wives of men who have posted those photos."
"You want me to pose?"
"No. I want more than that. If you read the comments of the readers many are appreciative of the bodies but some make crudely worded requests for sex with the woman. I am sure that this is what many of these husbands want. I believe in some cases it leads to email exchanges and eventually to live action. What I am trying to say is that my desire is a fairly common one. Why that questioning look?"
"What has Sunil's erection to do with all this?"
"It has," he said. I got a suspicion. It was so unlikely that I did not think it possible. But I had to probe.
"Have you a specific man in mind for this...eh exercise? I strongly suspect you have."
"I have."
"Who?"
"Sunil."
"My brother?"
"Yes."