"I" am an art student majoring in oil painting who came across a suit-clad older man when looking for a model for my painting. He said, "Please draw my portrait. I don't need to be paid. But please draw these earrings." They were the earrings of his late wife. These pearl earrings hid a mysterious light that could be called a 'curse' and when they were put on his left ear… He told me that Kanako, his wife who passed away two years ago, was an art student attending the same university as "me". The years passed and before "I" knew it, "I" had begun to fall in love with this soft-spoken man. "I" proposed a secret arrangement to him that we would embrace whenever he came to my studio. "The pearl that you cannot take off… if it is a curse cast by Kanako then I cannot draw you if you do not become one with her emotions." Sex with him was something "I" had never experienced before; it brought about a dazzlingly profound ecstasy… [Edited from http://koyonplete.com/man-with-a-pearl-earring]