Sex and Running

"Sex and Running"*

*When Ali, the sheik's most devoted eunuch, died
unexpectedly in the middle of the night, the potentate's
teenaged son asked his father how this unhappy event
had come to pass.

"My son," said the sheik, "Ali's death teaches us a
valuable lesson. Last night, upon retiring, I commanded
him to hasten to my harem and select for my pleasure
the one most beautiful among the hundred houris waiting
there. He returned with surprising swiftness with a ravishing
young woman, but this tasty morsel merely whetted my
appetite, so I summoned Ali again and told him to fetch
forth the most sensual female of the harem.

This time he returned even more quickly, though the harem
is a considerable distance from my quarters as you know,
with a female whose hair was as flame with a passion to match.

"This erotic creature further increased my desire, and I
instructed Ali to have the most innocent maiden he could
find brought to my bedchamber; he reappeared soon after,
short of breath and perspiring from his efforts in my behalf,
with a raven-haired beauty who was the very image of innocence.

"So it went throughout most of the night-with a fourth,
fifth, sixth, and seventh, faithful Ali scurrying back and
forth between harem and bedchamber again, and again,
and again, and again, until he dropped dead at my feet."

"And what is the valuable lesson to be learned from all
this?" the perplexed son of the potentate wanted to know.

"There's no harm in sex," said the sheik. "It's running
after it that can kill you."
Received on Wed Jan 28 08:21:17 2009