THE MAN AND THE OLD WOMAN
A young man was walking along on a blazing hot day when he met an old woman
who was going the same way. Seeing that she was dreadfully exhausted from the
heat of the day and the demands of the journey, he felt sorry for her weakness
and when the woman simply didn't have the strength to go any further, he picked
her up off the ground and carried her on his shoulders. While he was carrying
her this way, the young man was so strongly aroused by shameful thoughts that
he had an erection. Spurred by wanton lust and hot desire, he immediately put
the old woman down on the ground and had sex with her. Being simple-minded,
the woman asked him, 'What are you doing to me?' He answered, 'You are too heavy
to carry, so I've decided to carve off some of your flesh.' The man satisfied
himself and then picked the woman up off the ground again and set her on his
shoulders. After he had gone some way down the road, the old woman said to him,
'If I am still too heavy a burden for you, you can put me down again and carve
off some more of me!'
This fable shows that some people, when satisfying their own personal desires,
pretend as if the thing was done without their knowledge, giving the impression
that it is not actually a matter of desire, but rather some practical necessity. |