Punishments
The kajirae of the Palace of Tyros, are bound by Gorean Law and the Rules of the Palace. When submission is complete, as in the modialty of Gorean Slavery, she has no choices, her very life is in the Hands of the Free. The following quotes from the vast works of John Norman, begin to define just how much freedom a slave has, and what to expect should disciplinary measures be required.
"Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean
master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The
girl knows, if she pleases him, her
lot will be an easy one. She will almost never encounter sadism
or wanton cruelty, for the psychological
environment that tends to breed these diseases is largely
absent on Gor. This does not mean that
she will not expect to be beaten if she disobeys, or fails to
please her Master."
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor,
page 56
But what if he is weak?" she begged.
"Continue to serve him, in the fullness of your slavery, begging him for the least of his kisses, the most casual of his caresses...Even such small attentions, you will discover, now that you have become sensitized to your slavery, will be precious to you."
"But what if he is stupid?" she asked.
"Beg him to sell you, or give you away," I said, "that you may, if only in being sold off on the block, come into the collar of another, one capable of satisfying what you are, a slave."
"But what if he will not sell me, or give me away?" she said.
"Then," said I angrily,"that is how it will be, for it is you who wear the collar. He is the master. You are the slave."
Book 25, Magicians of Gor page 233- 234
"Harold, as a boy, had once been a slave in
the baths, those of the city of Turia, before he had
escaped. He had told me that sometimes
a Bath Girl, to discipline her, is thrown to the slaves in
the darkness.
Book
5, Assassin of Gor, page 164
'What is to be done with us?' demanded
Verna.
'Curiosity,' said Marlenus, 'is not
becoming in a Kajira. You might be beaten for it.' "
Book 8, Hunters
of Gor, page 142
'I will not eat the gruel of bond-maids,' said Aelgifu.
'You will eat it' said the Forkbeard, 'or you will be stripped and put to the oar.'
She looked at him in horror.
'That will not violate you my pretty,' said the Forkbeard.
In this punishment the girl, clothe or unclothed, is bound tightly to an oar, hands behind her, her
head down, toward the blade. When the oar lifts from the water she gasps for breath, only in
another moment to be submerged again. A recalcitrant girl may be kept on the oar for hours.
There is also, however some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north
occasionally attempt to tear such a girl from the oar. When food is low, it is not unknown for the
men of Torvaldsland to use a bond-maid, if one is available on the ship, for bait in such a manner.
The least pleasing girl is always used. This practice, of course encourages bond-maids the vie
vigorously to please their masters. An Ahn on the oar is usually more than sufficient to make the
coldest and proudest of females an obedient, eager-to-please bond-maid."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 66
"Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards
before her. It was slave bread, rough and
coarse-grained. The beauty ate it eagerly.
She had not known if she was to be fed that day.
sometimes the slave is not fed. this
might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her
measurements, which are generally carefully
kept, should minutely depart from her master's
conception of her ideal curvatures;
sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends,
totally, for her very life; sometimes
as a training or disciplinary measure; sometimes merely to
startle or puzzle her; what has she
done; she is not told; has she not been sufficiently pleasing;
she is not told; the girl, frightened,
anxious, redoubles her efforts to please in all the thoughsand
spheres of her slavery,intellectual,
physical and imaginative; no master, it is said, who has not
denied his girl food knows her; pleasant
indeed are the surprises which such a fellow, who thought
thitherto he knew his girl, upon the
completion of the simple experiment, receives the girl's wits are
sharpended; she becomes resourceful,
helpless, desperate, attentive, inventive; 'Feed me,
Master,' she begs. 'Feed me!'; at the
conculusion of such an experiment, when she is fed, it is
always, kneeling naked, from his hand.
The lesson is not soon forgotten. Few things so impress
the dominance of a male on a woman,
and her dependence on him, as his control of her food. this
dominance, provided it is absolute,
thrills a woman to the core."
Book
10, Tribesman of Gor, page 48
"I had been thrown to my Master's men. One
after another had raped and beaten me, and thrown
me to the next. I was handed about as
an object fierce was the discipline that they handed me."
Book
11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 94
"I could not believe the pain of the whip.
I could not even conjecture what it would be to feel a true
slave whip on my body. Yet I knew a
girl could be subjected to a full and lengthy lashing by the true
slave whip for so small a thing as having
failed in some way that she might not even understand to
be completely pleasing to the master.
Indeed, she could be subjected to such a lashing for no
other reason than that it pleased the
master to do so. I had now, for the first time, the former Judy
Thorton, felt a whip. I groaned in misery.
I now had a new insight into the condition of my slavery. I
would do anything, eagerly, the masters
wanted."
Book
11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 203
"Generally he disciplined me with a cuff of
the flat of his hand. I respected him. He managed me
well."
Book
11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 247
"Whereas the first penalty is commonly only
a severe beating, the second often involves
hamstringing, or the cutting of the
tendons behind the knees, this cripples the girl and makes her
generally useless save as a pathetic
example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of
attempted escape."
Book
11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 331
" 'Please Master,' she said 'Take pity on me.
Take pity on the miserable needs of a slave girl.'
'You are not mine " I told her, " You
are a pretty little thing, but I do not own you.'
'Please,' she said.
'Your master,' I said, 'if he chooses,
will satisfy your needs. If he does not, he will not.' For all I
knew she might be under the discipline
of deprivation. If that were so, I had no wish to impair the
effectiveness of her master's control
over her. Besides I did not know him. I did not wish to do him
dishonor, whoever he might be.
'Does your master know you are begging
in the streets?' I asked.
'No,' she said, frightened.
'Then,' said I, 'perhaps I should have
your hands tied and write that upon your body.' "
Book
12, Beasts of Gor, pages 48 - 49
"She was dressed, save for her bondage strings,
in much the same way as most of the women of
the red hunters, bare-breasted, with
high boots and panties. Thistle, however, behind her, was
naked, in a northern yoke and on a leather
leash.
...
'We are going to pick moss and grass,'
she said.
'That is good,' I said. 'Why is Thistle
yoked?'
'It pleased me, Master,' said Thimble,
first girl.
'Was she insubordinate?' I asked. 'She
said a sharp word to me,' said Thimble.
'Did you switch her, too?' I asked.
'Of course, Master,' said Thimble.
'Excellent,' I said. Discipline must
be kept in the tent."
Book
12, Beasts of Gor, pages 196 - 197
'Sometimes, Masters, as a discipline,
rent their girls out to employers to perform repetitious,
trivial tasks.' "
Book
12, Beasts of Gor, page 249
'I think I could well serve such a master,'
she said.
'You would,' I said, 'or you, being
a slave, would be promptly and efficiently disciplined, most likely
whipped.'
'Whipped?' she asked, 'Could such a
man whip a girl?'
'Of course,' I said. 'Do not think that
the pleasure he finds in you will be permitted in the least to
compromise his mastery of you.'
'I would thrill to be owned by such
a man,' she said."
Book
12, Beasts of Gor, page 249
"...it is difficult for a woman who is naked
before a man to lie to him. Clothing makes it easier to lie.
Naked, a woman is exposed not only physically
to a man but, in a sense, psychologically, as well.
She fears psycholocgically, exposed
as she is, that she can hide nothing, that he will see all, and
detect all, that she is uttlerly open
and vulnerable to him in all ways. This, for subtle and subjective
reasons, having to do with psychology,
makes it hard for her, when she is fully exposed to his
scrutiny, to lie convincingly. She fears,
somehow, he will know. And, actually, of course there is
something to her fear, indeed, a great
deal. When she tries to lie there is a fear involved and this
fear, in subtle ways, in subtle drawings
back, in tensensenesses, is manifested in her beautiful
body, proclaiming it that of a liar.
Many times a girl does not know how the master knows she is
lying. At the slave ring, struck, she
cries out in her misery. How could he have known? The answer
is simple. Her body betrayed her. It
told him. Too, slave girls seldom lie, for the punishments
connected with lying can be extremely
severe. A girl may be thrown alive to sleen for lying."
Book
12, Beasts of Gor, pages 299 - 300
"The girl had now learned that her feet might
be cut from her for running away, that her ears and
nose might be cut from her for lying.
She was still an ignorant girl, of course, but she now knew a
little more of what it might be to be
a slave on Gor."
Book
13, Explorers of Gor, page 69
I looked out the door of the shop. I could
see the girl, about one hundred and fifty yards away, her
wrists crossed and bound before her,
tied by the wrists to a heavy ring at the side of the pier. She
knelt. Then the first stroke of the
whip hit her. She screamed. Then she could scream no more but
was twisting, gasping, on her stomach,
and side and back, under the blows of the whip. I think she
had not understood before what it might
mean, truly, to be whipped. Men passed her, going about
their business. The discipling of a
slave girl on Gor is not that unusual a sight."
Book
13, Explorers of Gor, page 70
"I think she had not realized what the whip
could do to her.
Yet the beating had been merciful and
brief. I doubt that she was struck more than ten or fifteen
times.
I think the purpose of the whipping
had been little more than to teach her what the whip could feel
like. A girl who knows what the whip
can feel like strives to be pleasing to the master."
Book
13, Explorers of Gor, page 71
" 'Master,' said the girl.
'Yes,' I said.
'You need not have struck me, earlier
this afternoon,' she said. 'But I suppose that you are the
judge of that, for you are the Master,'
she added, airily.
I looked at her.
'Surely one needs a reason for striking
a slave,' she said.
'No,' I said.
'I see,' she said, putting her head
down. She trembled.
'Come here,' I said. 'Kneel before me,
back on your heels.'
She did so, looking at me. 'Master?'
she asked.
Suddenly I struck her, a fierce blow
which flung her, mouth bloodied, to her side in the dirt.
I stood up. 'Do you see?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she whispered, looking
up at me, horrified.
'Now kneel before me and kiss my feet,'
I said, 'and thank me for having struck you.'
Tremblingly, she crawled to me, and
knelt before me. She put her head down. I felt her lips on my
feet. 'Thank you for having struck me,
Master,' she whispered. She looked up at me.
'Do you now understand that you are
a slave?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Do you still think that a Master requires
a reason to strike you?' I asked.
'No, Master,' she said.
'And why is that?' I asked.
'Because I am a slave,' she said."
Book
13, Explorers of Gor, page 295
'We may protest, of course, if the masters
see fit to permit it,' said Mira, 'But then, when we are
finished, our discipline is reimposed
upon us, perhaps even more severely.' 'Discipline?' breathed
the girl. 'Yes,' said Mira, 'the slave
girl is subject to discipline and punishment. She is owned, like a
sleen or tarsk is owned. She is owned,
literally owned, You must understand that in its full sense.
Accordingly, anything may be done with
her that the master wishes. She may even be slain, if the
master wishes.' 'Then the slave girl
is totally helpless,' said the girl. 'She is totally at the mercy of
the master.' 'Yes,' said Mira. 'I would
like that,' said the girl. 'Oh?' asked Mira. 'Are you happy?'
asked the girl. 'Yes, incredibly so.'
'Do you not desire freedom?' asked the girl. 'The only freedom I
would now desire,' said Mira 'would
be the freedom to be totally a slave.' "
Book
18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 296
"Insubordination, slaves are quickly taught,
is not acceptable, in any way, to the Gorean master."
Book
19, Kajira of Gor, page 123
" 'Will you truly be hard with me, Master?'
I asked. 'Yes, Slave,' he said.
'Subject even to discipline, if I displease
you?' I asked.
'Subject to discipline, at my pleasure,
whether you displease me or not,' he said.
'My bondage will then be absolute,'
I said.
'Of course, Slave,' he said."
Book
19, Slave Girl or Gor, page 445
" 'Did you strike me because I challenged your
manhood?' she asked...
'You were not struck for such an absurd
reason,' I said... 'You were struck, rather, because you
were attempting to manipulate me.' "
Book
21, Mercenaries of Gor, page 422
I put my head down gratefully. I was pleased
that he was pleased. Girls such as I are eager to
please such men. It makes us happy to
do so. It satisfies something warm, and deep and
marvelous, in the very bottom of our
bellies to do so. If we do not, of course, they simply see to it
that we do. Our behaviour is then quickly,
and often painfully, corrected."
Book
22, Dancer of Gor, page 70
"The dancing of the female before the
male, that she be found pleasing and he be pleased, is one
of the most profound lessons in all
of human biology. Others are when she kneels before him,
when she kisses his feet, when she performs
obeisance, when she knows herself subject, truly, to
his whip."
Book
22, Dancer of Gor, page 193
"If
a command needs to be repeated as the saying goes, the girl needs to be
punished."
Book
22, Dancer of Gor, Page 211
"The slave girl within the city, incidentally,
commonly receives a great deal of freedom. She
normally can do much what she wants,
and go much where she wishes. Her mobility and freedom
in such respects is often greater than
that accorded to free women. This freedom and mobility
does not matter greatly, of course,
since she is branded and collared. To be sure, she is seldom
allowed outside the walls of of a city
unless in the company of a free person. Similarly, if an
appropriate free person is available,
she must request permission to leave the house. At this time,
she will probably also have the Ahn
of her return specified for her. Similarly, if an appropriate free
person is available, she must report
in to that person, when she returns... Many houses are strict
about such matters. Being late can be
a matter for discipline."
Book
23, Renegades of Gor, page 413
beheading
this ancient form of
execution is seen as an option when the offender is of the same Home Stone;
it consists of stripping, beating and beheading the offender and is considered
a merciful death.
Book 23:
Renegades of Gor, page 14-15
boards,
chained on
an ancient modality of
execution that involves the person being chained, by collar and shackles,
on parallel upright boards. Like the punishment of hanging from an iron
collar, the victim may take two to three days to die; these structures
are most common in harbor cities near the wharves.
Book 23:
Renegades of Gor, page 14-15
brand, penalty
small 1/4 inch brands
that mark a convicted liar, thief, traitor etc.
Book 7: Captive of Gor,
page 310
couching
law
any Free woman
who voluntarily 'couches' with the slave
of another may be taken as slave herself
by the Master of the slave she
'couched' with.
Book 25: Magicians of
Gor, page 7 and page 303
dung sack
used to contain bosk
(or any) dung after it has been raked up or collected; also employed as
a punishment when slave girls are forced to 'spend a night in the dung
sack'.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor,
page 285
exile, ritual
of
a man being exiled for
whatever reason is publicly refused bread and salt, and is then ordered
to leave the city by sundown under penalty of death. The exiled one may
not come within ten pasangs of the city from that day forward.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor,
page 216
Frame of
Humiliation
wooden frame to which
the condemned person is tied before it is set adrift in the Vosk River
so that he may die of exposure and/or dehydration if he is not eaten by
tharlarion or other carnivorous reptiles.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor,
pages 136 and 138
garbage
death
the death for a slave
where a slave is bound naked, and thrown to canal urts, as in Port Kar.
Book 10: Tribesmen of
Gor, page 313
Impalement
the impalement of a person
on the pole lance or spear with the dying body raised for all to view.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor,
page 157
iron collars,
hung in
an ancient modality of
execution that involves the offenders being chained and suspended by iron
collars on posts, taking two to three days to die.
Book 23: Renegades of
Gor, page 14
Kneel to
the Whip
this command orders a
slave to kneel, bowing her head to her knees, her wrists crossed under
her as though bound. The position is intended to expose her back
to the whip.
Book 3: Priest-Kings
of Gor, page 201 and 202
Book 7: Captive of Gor,
page 200
Book 15: Rogue of Gor,
page 21
Book 18: Savages of Gor,
page 137
slave box,
punishment
small square (3x3') iron
box with a door having a viewing aperture of 7 inches x1/2 inches in the
middle and a pass-through of 12x2 inches at the base; a punishment device
for slaves.
Book 7: Captive
of Gor, pages 313-314
staking,
exposure death by
A death from exposure
used in Klima for those attempting to escape. As the term implies,
a person is staked to the salt crusts, spread-eagled, until the heat of
the Tahari sun kills.
Book 10: Tribesmen of
Gor, page 265
staking,
sleen death or punishment by
an form of execution
or punishment used when a Master is done with a slave; he may stake her
for sleen, by staking ankles and legs widely apart between two stakes.
The slave is blindfolded and cut on the thigh to draw blood, smearing it
across her body, to attract the animal..
Book 8: Hunters of Gor,
page 230 -231
tarn death
each limb of a person
is attached by rope or chain to different tarns and the person is flown
aloft then torn apart.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor,
page 158
tharlarion,
torn apart by
a form of execution that
involves ropes being tied to the offender's wrists and ankles. These bindings
are attached to two different tharlarion which are then drawn in opposite
directions.
Book 23: Renegades of
Gor, page 14
tharlarion,
trampled by
maimed.form
of execution. The offender is bound before a tharlarion and trampled to
death or until
Book 23: Renegades of
Gor, page 14
torturers,
clan of
found only among the
Wagon Peoples, they are trained as carefully as scribes or physicians in
the arts of detaining life. Though some are famous for services rendered
to Initiates and Ubars, they are always hooded. The hood is removed
only when the sentence is death, so that only condemned men have seen what
lies beneath it.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor,
pages 9 and 10
use discipline
a punishment which avows
the free man's prerogative to sexually use a house-owned girl as discipline.
There are examples which state that these rights are governed by a Code,
wherein a girl may not be used or disciplined without the permission of
her owner.
Book 11: Slave Girl of
Gor, page 226
Book 12: Beasts of Gor,
page 174
Book 25: Magicians of
Gor, pages 329-330
wagon, justice
a form of execution which
involved tar and tallow, the contents from a wagon's grease bucket, and
fire; a detailed description is not given, but it is noted as evidence
of the Gorean's distaste of criminals.
Book 23: Renegades of
Gor, page 22
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