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"According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted Free Companions. Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a Free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to a slave ring, precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. It is the Gorean way of reminding her, should she need to be reminded, that she, too, is a women, and thus to be dominated, to be subject to men. Should she be tempted to forget this basic act of Gorean life the slave ring set in the bottom of each Gorean couch is there to refresh her memory. Gor is a man's world." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 67 ~才
"In Brundisium, when a Free Woman has been found displeasing, she may be denied footwear, she may also be forced to wear a skirt almost as short as that of a slave (optionally it may also be slit at the sides to greater show her legs), also she may denied the use of sleeves in her clothes, they may also not be permitted to bind their hair having to wear it loose, they may also not be permitted to weat a veil." Book 20, Players of Gor, pages 286 - 287
"When a Free Woman, by her actions or words, brings shame to her village or town, then it is the duty of any free man of that village or town to discipline the Free Woman - this is usually done by whipping her although other punishments may be used." Book 21, Mercenaries of Gor, page 41
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"The Gorean male, at ease, usually sits cross-legged and the female kneels, resting back on her heels. The position of the Tower Slave, in which Vika knelt, differs from that of a free woman only in the position of the wrists which are held before her and, when not occupied, crossed as though for binding. A free woman's wrists are never so placed."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 46 ~才
"Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean Free Woman. Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 94 ~才
"Sheera knelt there. She did not sit cross-legged. She knelt as a Gorean woman." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 75 ~才
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"Any free woman who couches with another's slave or readies for such, becomes , by law, herself a slave and the property of said slaves owner."
Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 7
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"Free Women on Gor do not travel unattended or attended by only a single warrior - at least not of their own free will."
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 121 ~才
"To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case with Ko-ro-ba. Women were permitted status within the caste system and had relatively unrestricted existence. Book 2, Outlaws of Gor, page 51 ~才
"It is unusual to find a woman unescorted outside the walls of a city, even near the walls. I was startled to see her alone in this wild, deserted place, far from roads and cities. Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 52 ~才
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" 'I have never been in one of these places before,' she said. .... 'I now understand why it is that free women never enter Paga taverns.' .... 'So this is what these places are like,' she said, looking about her." Book 5, Assassins of Gor, pages 22 - 23 ~才
"Women are on the whole are not permitted in paga taverns, unless, of course, they wear collars." Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 197
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"To my surprise Lara removed her cloak and took the pot of Kal-da from one of the girls and began to serve the men. Some of the girls looked at her in gratitude for she was free and in doing this she showed them that she did not regard herself as above them. 'That,' I said to Kron, pointing out Lara, 'is the Tatrix of Tharna.' As Andreas looked upon her he said softly, 'She is truly a Tatrix.' " Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 226 ~才
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" 'It is a judicial enslavement,' he said. With Rim and Thurnock, moving in the crowd, I craned for a look. I saw first the girl, stumbling. She was already stripped. Her hands were tied behind her back. Something, pushing her from behind, had been fastened on her neck. Behind her came a flat-topped wagon, of some four feet in height. It was moved by eight tunicked, collared slave girls, two to each wheel, pushing at the wheels. It was guided by a man walking behind it, by means of a lever extending back, under the wagon, from the front axle. Flanking the wagon, on both sides, were the musicians, with their drums and flutes. Behind the wagon, in the white robes, trimmed with gold and purple, of merchant magistrates, came five men. I recognized them as judges. A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet. There was, at its termination, a semicircular leather cushion, with a short chain. The girl's neck had been foced back against the cusion, and then the chain had been fastened, securing her, standing , in place. As the wagon moved forward, she was, thus, forced to walk before it. The pole, projecting out from the wagon, isolated her, keeping her from other human beings. The music became louder. I suddenly recognized the girl. It was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the sensuous little wench, whose ear had been notched. I gather that she had not had such good fortune later in the day. I well knew what the punishment was for a Gorean female, following her second conviction for theft. On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the handles of two irons. Also mounted on the wagon was a branding rack, of the sort popular in Tyros. It was, I conjectured, another instance of the cultural minglings which characterized the port of Lydius. The wagon stopped on the broad street, before the wharves, where the crowd could gather about. A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface. The other judges stood below him, on the street. The girl pulled at the leather binding fiber fastening her wrists behind her back. She moved her neck and head in the confinement of the chain and leather, at the end of the pole. 'Will the Lady Tina of Lydius deign to face me?' asked the judge, using the courteous tones and terminology with which Gorean free women, often inordinately honored, are addressed. .... 'Will the Lady Tina of Lydius please deign to face me?' asked the judge, with the same courtesy as before. The girl turned in the chain and leather to face her judge, standing removed from her and above her, in his white robes, trimmed with two borders, one of gold, the other of purple. .... 'You have been tried and convicted of the crime of theft,' said the judge, 'for the second time.' The girl's eyes were terrified. 'It is now my duty, Lady Tina,' said the judge, 'to pass sentence upon you.' She looked up at him. 'Do you understand?' he asked. 'Yes,' she said, 'my judge.' 'Are you prepared now, Lady Tina of Lydius,' asked the judge, 'to hear your sentence?' 'Yes,' she said, regarding him, 'my judge.' 'I herewith sentence you, Lady Tina of Lydius,' said the judge, 'to slavery.' The man who had guided the wagon from the rear, and had now locked the brake on the front wheel, went to the bound girl. He unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole, and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. She then stood besides her judge, barefoot on the flat-topped, wooden wagon. Her head was down. 'Lady Tina,' requested the judge, 'go to the rack.' Wordlessly, the girl went and stood by the rack, her back to the curved iron. The man who had brought her to the wagon now knelt before her, locking metal clasps on her ankles. He then went behind her, and unbound her wrists. 'Place your hands over your head,' he said. She did so. 'Bend your elbows,' he said. She did so. 'Lie back,' he then said, supporting her. She did so, and was stretched over the curved iron. He then took her wrists and pulled her arms almost straight. He then locked her wrists in metal clasps, similar to those, though smaller, which confined her ankles. Her head was down. He then bent to metal pieces, heavy, curved and hinged, which were attached to the sides of the rack, and a bit forward. Each piece consisted of two curved, flattish bands, joining at the top. He lifted them, and dropped them into place. Then, with two keys, hanging on tiny chains at the sides, he tightened the bands. They were vises. She might now be branded on either the left or right thigh. There was ample room, I noted, between the bands, on either side, to press the iron. She was held perfectly. Her tanned thigh could not protest so much as by the slightest tremor. She would be marked cleanly. The man, placing heavy gloves on his hands, withdrew from the brazier a slave iron. Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira" Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 48 - 51 ~才
" 'In a cafe, once,' she said, 'I saw a girl dance before men. She was scandalous! and the girls, too, who served in the cafe! Shameful! Scandalous!' Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 333 ~才
" 'A girl of low caste, of a poor family, who is truly beautiful, a girl who cannot afford shelter in a protected area, is almost certain, sooner or later, to find her neck ringed with a collar. As far as that goes, a girl of wealth and high caste, who is beautiful, is not out of danger. It is regarded as great sport to take them.' " Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 246 ~才
"Some Goreans think of the Free Companionship as being a form of contract slavery." Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 246
" 'You may freely enter into the state of bondage,' I told her, 'but you may not freely leave it. This thing is, once it is done to you, is, on your part, irreversible. It is not then within your power to break, alter or amend it in any way. You will then, you see, no longer be a
free person, but only a slave.' Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 298
"Sometimes, however, the free woman in a captured city is not, say, simply stripped, thrown down and tied, later to be turned over to an iron master for the searing kiss of his white hot metal. Sometimes, rather, she stripped, and presented before officers, is offered the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. 'If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave.' She is then expected, sometimes, kneeling to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the mat. It is commonly regarded as an acceptable introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery." Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 337
"in most cities (not all) a free woman may submit herself as a slave to a specific man. If he refuses her then she is still free. In other cities the free woman makes herself a slave unconditionally, it is then up to the man in question whether or not he will accept her as his slave - regardless she is now slave." Book 20, Players of Gor, page 21
" 'Master!' laughed she who seemed to be a naked, collared slave, flinging her arms about my neck, pressing her lips fervently, deliciously to mine. Book 20, Players of Gor, page 38
"In some cities such things as kneeling before a man or addressing him as 'Master' effects legal imbondment on the female, being intrepreted as a gesture of submission." Book 20, Players of Gor, page 139
"The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for example, in cases of indigence and vagrancy. Prostitution, rare on Gor because of female slaves, is another case. The women are taken, enslaved, cleaned up and controlled. Indulgence in sensual dance is another case. Sensuous dance is almost always performed by slaves on Gor. A free woman who performs such dancing publicly is almost begging for the collar. In some cities the sentence of bondage is mandatory for such a woman." Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 372
"You are no longer a free woman. You no longer need conceal your feelings. You may now openly and freely admit your interest in men and your love for them." Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 405
" 'I loathe you!' she cried. 'Bring me my clothing!' she wept to the guardsmen. Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 8
"On Gor it is said that free women are slaves who have not yet been collared." Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 22
"For example, sometimes free women attempt, sometimes even disguising themselves, to spy on the doings of masters and slaves. For example, they might attempt, disguised as lads, to gain entrance to paga taverns. And often such entrance in granted them but later, to their horror, they may find themselves thrown naked to the dancing sand and forced to perform under whips. Similarly if they attempt to enter such establishments as pretended slaves they may find themselves leaving them by the back entrance, soon to become true slaves. In many cities, such actions, attempting to spy on masters and slaves, disguising oneself as a slave, garbing oneself as a slave, even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartments, lingering about slave shelves and markets, even exhibiting an interest in, or fascination with, bondage, can result in reduction to bondage. The theory is apparently that such actions and interests are those of a slave, and that the female who exhibits them should, accordingly, be imbonded." Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 50
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"Some of the rear ranks actually climbed, fallen and struggling comrades and leaped over the wagons to the other side, where they were cut down by archers and dragged from their kaiila to be flung beneath the knives of Tuchuk women."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 262 ~才
"Poison is the weapon of woman." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 18
"It is not wise to try to tear away the garments of a free woman with one's bare hands. They may contain poisoned needles." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 402 ~才
" 'Between the third and fourth robes,' I told her, 'there is a sheathed dagger, concealed in the lining. Keep your hands away from it.' Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 403 ~才
"I found a comb on a nearby vanity. Sheathing my knife and holding her by the back of the neck with my left hand I swiftly, but with some care, combed out her hair. Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 404 ~才
" 'Do not approach Me, sleen!' hissed a woman. Her arm was back. She crouched in the center of one of the small spaces. Her hand, held back, held a small dagger, of the sort which some women think affords them protection. Book 23, Renegades of Gor, pages 89, 91 & 126
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"Come tonight to our hall, Champion," said Bera. The Blue Tooth did not gainsay her. The woman of the Jarl had spoken. Free women in the north have much power. This is not to deny that the Ubara of the south, in fact, exercises as much or more power than her northern counterpart. It is only to recognize that her power in the south is less explicitly acknowledged." Book 9, Maruaders of Gor, page 191
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