THE FRUIT OF SIN

By Javed Rashid

Khalid always found it difficult to relate to woman

.He, a strong, handsome, strapping young man had
always found liaisons with men to be much more
satisfying. The middle class, orthodox background
that he came from did not allow him the luxury to
openly flaunt his sexual preference .Following the
traditional, expected and accepted path he got
married to Fahamida .She was a tall, well built young
woman with normal healthy appetites.
Khalid had a number of affairs with different men,
but in between he fathered two beautiful children, a
girl and a boy, both were very beautiful but
unfortunately were rather limited and had very little
talent for almost anything.
Sadiq was Khalid’s friend from school , but quite
unlike Khalid he was strictly a ladies man .He in fact
wanted a new partner every time he had sex .His
marriage to Shazia did little to whet his insatiable
desire .Sadiq had always felt comfortable with
prostitutes .The singular lack of commitment
somehow appealed to him .His motherless
childhood ,did not allow him, to tolerate any
semblance of a long term or even short term
relationship, specially with a woman .He expected to
be hurt and abandoned by any women , just like his
mother who abandoned him , when only a small child
.The fact that it was an abandonment forced by death
did not register in his psyche .Both friends had a
passion for gambling ,they were usually “partners “in
flash sessions .
Khalid after school studied and became an Architect.
He was fairly successful at his profession and being a
shrewd and cautious man by nature did reasonably
well financially .He, however, lost almost all sexual
interest in Fahimida as a woman ,for that matter he
lost interest in sex with women .She tried to forget
her deprivation by concentrating upon the upbringing
of her children , but after a while her natural appetites
took over and made it impossible for her to avoid
taking corrective measures to fulfill her normal
natural physical demands .Divorce and remarriage
had become almost taboo in her middle class world, a
legacy from the Hindu society with which the
Muslims ,of the subcontinent, had coexisted for a
number of centuries . She formed a number of very
discrete relationships with young men, who gratefully
and gleefully accepted her advances as she still was
an attractive young woman.
Fahamida was, however , always very careful to
conceal her affairs and also to avoid any conception
out of wedlock .Khalid, smug in his world ,would
seek her only once in half a year and after sometime
he completely switched over to his young men who
he found much more sexually satisfying anyway .He
completely forgot Fahamida as a woman and only
had use for her as a nanny to his children and as a
very efficient housekeeper .Their two children were
severely limited .Lack of any sexual contact between
them precluded the possibility of any more children .
Sadiq after school joined Marine Engineering and
became an engineer on a merchant vessel .This life of
a sailor suited him admirably .It allowed him access
to easy women who form a part of almost all ports .It
also allowed him to gamble a significant part of his
salary on cards or horses or any other form of
gambling available in the port towns .Sadiq and
Khalid lost touch with each other and did not meet
for almost 20 years after graduating from school.
Sadiq in between his various voyages got married,
this rather reluctantly, on insistence of his father and
step mother, to Shazia .Marriage, as expected, did not
make him a honest man .It did, however, force him to
abandon his life of roving pleasure and obtain a job
as a Chief Engineer Maintenance of a large five star
hotel .This was a major disruption of his routine .He
was no longer familiar with modes and means of
obtaining safe (security wise) sex in the city.
Sadiq bumped into Khalid who had come to attend
the marriage of his nephew in the hotel. Sadiq
immediately latched onto his old friend, He knew that
Khalid was a resourceful person and had the ability to
arrange almost anything within reason .Sadiq
requested his friend to find a solution to his
predicament. Khalid after a week took Sadiq to Heera
Mandi, Khalid quite contrary to his friends
expectations had very little idea of how to obtain safe
sex, which was not surprising as he had almost no
interest in sex with women .He went to the red light
area and, in his flash bluff manner, knocked on the
first door that he came across .He did want to impress
his friend and to maintain his reputation as a
resourceful go-getter.
Luckily he had knocked on the door of two of the
most beautiful prostitutes of the area .Rahat got
interested in Sadiq but Sharafian found the tall
handsome Khalid to be attractive .The customary
gaudy dance and out of tune song quickly
degenerated into a passionate and extended kissing
and petting session .The girls very quickly and
professionally aroused both friends and just when
emotions ran to the point of no return , the inevitable
money matters were brought up by Rahat ,the more
pragmatic of the two girls .
It seems that Khalid had very badly misjudged the
class of the prostitutes they had got involved with
.Both girls were the most expensive ones in the
mandi and Sadiq’s boastful portrayal of a filthy rich
engineer, which was far from the truth, made Rahat
demand a very exorbitant price .This very quickly
dampened any further progress and both friends came
out of the house rather shame facedly with tail
between their legs .Each went to his house.
Khalid had been aroused by Nazarian as never before
and for once he desperately wanted a woman.
Fahamida, who greeted him when he came home
appeared very appetizing to him and after a very long
time both partners had sex and Khalid for once did
enjoy his sex, courtesy Nazarian, with his wife.
This of course was very surprising to Fahimida, who
did not expect to have any sex that night and least of
all with his de facto husband .She had forgotten to
take her pills and this one night stand, brought about
by the professionalism and allures of Nazarian the
beautiful prostitute, resulted in getting Fahimida
pregnant.
Khalid got over this one night attraction for
womanhood and reverted to his young men .He
promptly forgot all about Nazarian or Fahamida .The
third baby of Khalid and Fahamida turned out to be a
very talented child who turned out to be a very
famous chemistry scientist of International fame .He
made original contributions to the field of organic
chemistry and was a candidate for a noble prize in
chemistry .He seems to be have been partly fathered
by Nazarian the prostitute .Sin they say extracts its
own price and has its own rewards .