| "The girl I had originally seen had been a slave, and what I had
taken to be the jewelry at her throat had been a badge of servitude.
Another such badge was a brand concealed by her clothing. The latter
marked her as a slave, and the former identified her master. One might
change one’s collar, but not one’s brand."
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 46
"The brand is to be distinguished from the collar, though both are a designation of slavery. The primary significance of the collar is that it identifies the master and his city. The collar of a given girl maybe be changed countless times, but the brand continues throughout to bespeak her status." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 187
"The attendant on the disk then bent down and picked up the slender, graceful metal collar. These collars are normally measured individually to the girl as is most slave steel. The collar is regarded not simply as a designation of slavery and a means for identifing the girl's owner and his city but as an ornament as well. Accordingly the Gorean master is often extremely concerned that the fit of the graceful band will be neither too tight nor too loose. The collar is normally worn snugly, indeed so much so that if the snap of a slave leash is used the girl will normally suffer some discomfort." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 158 ~¤~
"She wore bells locked on both wrists, and on both ankles, thick cuffs and anklets, each with a double line of bells, fastened by steel and key. She wore the Turian collar, rather than the common slave collar. The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is flat, snugly fitting steel band. Both collars lock in the back, behind the girl's neck. The Turian collar is more difficult to engrave, but it, like the flat collar, will bear some legend assuring that the girl, if found, will be promptly returned to her Master. Bells had also been affixed to her collar. " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 19 ~¤~
"The Sirik, a light chain favored for female slaves by many Gorean masters; it consists of a Turian-type collar, a loose, rounded circle of steel, to which a light, gleaming chain is attached; should the girl stand, the chain, dangling from her collar, falls to the floor; it is about ten or twelve inches longer than is required to reach from her collar to her ankles; to this chain, at the natural fall of her wrists, is attached a pair of slave bracelets; at the end of the chain there is attached another device, a set of linked ankle rings, which, when closed about her ankles, lifts a portion of the slack chain from the floor; the Sirik is an incredibly graceful thing and designed to enhance the beauty of its wearer; perhaps it should only be added that the slave bracelets and the ankle rings may be removed from the chain and used separately; this also, of course, permits the Sirik to function as a slave leash." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 42 ~¤~
"She wore yellow Pleasure Silk, and, beneath her long black hair, on her throat, I glimpsed a silverish Turian collar. She lay with her knees drawn up and her head resting on her left elbow. Her skin color was tannish, not too unlike the girl I had seen from Port Kar. I bent more closely. She was a beauty, and the diaphanous Pleasure Silk that was the only garment permitted her did not, by design, conceal her charms." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pg 220 ~¤~
"Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over steel." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 7 ~¤~
"The small, heavy lock on a girls slave collar, incidentally, may be of several varieties, but almost all are cylinder locks, either of the pin or disk variety. In a girls collar lock there would be six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter of in the Gorean word for female slave, kajira; the male slave , or kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually with other male slaves." Book 5, Assassins of Gor, page 51 ~¤~
"The girls were then motioned to the anvil. First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of a quarter of an inch was left between the two ends of the collar; the ends matched perfectly; both Virginia and Phyllis stepped away from the anvil feeling the metal on their throats, both now collared slave girls. 'If your training goes well,' said Flaminius to the girls, 'you will in time be given a pretty collar.' He indicated Elizabeth's yellow enameled collar, bearing the legend of the House of Cernus. 'It will even have a lock,' siad Flaminius." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 153 - 154 ~¤~
"I permitted her, of course, but a single garment, but I allowed it to be opaque, and of the blue of the Scribes. It was sleeveless and felll to just above her knees. Her collar, however, that she might not grow pretentious was a simple steel. It read, as I wished, I BELONG TO BOSK. " Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 131
"About my throat, snugly, there was a graceful, gleaming band of steel. Gathering my wits I simply reached behind my neck to release the catch, and remove it. My fingers fumbled. I could not find the release. I turned it slowly, carefully, because it fitted rather closely. I examined it in the mirror. There was no release, no catch. Only a small, heavy lock, and a place where a tiny key might fit. It had been locked on my throat! There was printing on the band, but I could not read it. It was not in a script I knew!" Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 7 ~¤~
"About her neck, riveted, was a collar of black iron, with a welded ring, to which a chain might be attached." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 85
" 'Look up at me,' said the smith. The slender, blond girl, tears in her eyes, looked up at him. He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height. He put it about her throat. It also contained a welded ring, suitable for the attachment of a chain. 'Put your head beside the anvil,' he said. He took her hair and threw it forward, and thrust her neck against the left side of the anvil. Over the anvil lay the joining ends of the two pieces of the collar. The inside of the collar was separated by a quarter of an inch from her neck. I saw the fine hairs on the back of her neck. On one part of the collar are two, small, flat, thick rings. On the other is a single such ring. These rings, when the wings of the collar are joined, are aligned, those on one wing on top and bottom, that on the other in the center. They fit closely together, one on top of the other. The holes in each, about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, too, of course, are perfectly aligned. The smith, with his thumbs, forcibly, pushed a metal rivet through the three holes. The rivet fits snuggly. 'Do not move your head, Bond-maid,' said the smith. Then, with great blows of the iron hammer, he riveted the iron collar about her throat. A man then pulled her by the hair from the anvil and threw her to one side. She lay there weeping, a naked bond-maid, marked and collared." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 87
"There were some one hundred bond-maids for sale in the shed. They all wore the collars of the north, with the projecting iron ring." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 158
"From my pouch I drew forth a leather Kur collar, with its lock, and sewn in leather, its large, rounded ring. 'What is it?' she asked apprehensively. I took it behind her neck, and then, closing it about her throat, thrust the large, flattish bolt, snapping it into the lock breech. The two edges of metal, bordered by the leather, fitted closely together. The collar is some three inches in height. The girl must keep her chin up. 'It is the collar of a Kur cow,' I told her." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 275
"I looked down upon her. "You are a wanton slave," I said. She looked up at me laughing, "A girl in a collar is not permitted inhibitions," she said. It was true, slave girls must reveal their sexual nature, totally. Do they not do so, they are beaten. Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 278
" 'Ko - lar,' shea said, indicating her collar. 'It is the same word in English,' I cried. She did not understand my outburst. Gorean, as I would learn, is rich in words borrowed from Earth Languages; how rich it is I am not a skilled enough philologist to conjecture. It may well be that almost all Gorean expressions may be traced to one or another Earth language. Yet, the language is fluid, rich and expressive. Borrowed expressions, as in linguistic borrowing generally, take on the coloration of the borrowing language; in time the borrowings become naturalized, so to speak, being fully incorporated into the borrowing language; at this point they are, for all practical purposes, words within the borrowing language. How many, in English, for example, think of expressions such as 'automobile,' 'corral,' and 'lariat' as being foreign words? 'Collar!' I said. Eta frowned. 'Ko - lar,' she repeated, again indicating the neck band of steel fashioned on her throat. 'Ko - lar,' I said, carefully following her pronunciation. Eta accepted this." Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 80 - 81
"A man in his heart desires freedom, and a woman in her belly yearns for love. The collar in its way answers both needs." Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 180
"I had seen few collars on Gor, but I had learned from Eta that there was a great variety among them. They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize bauty of a Ubar, had two things in common; they cannot be removed by the girl, and they mark her as slave." Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 215
"He freed her ankles of the shackles which had held them at the circular metal platform. Ulafi then, pushing her head down, fashioned the sturdy, steel shipping collar on her throat, snapping it shut behind the back of her neck. It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and the scimitar." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 73 ~¤~
'What are you?' he asked. 'A slave girl, Master' she said, her neck in the loops of the whip. 'What is a slave girl?' he asked. 'A girl who is owned,' she said. 'Are you a slave girl?' he asked. 'Yes, Master,' she said. 'Then you are owned,' he said. 'Yes, Master,' she said. 'Who owns you?' he asked. 'Ulafi of Schendi,' she said. 'Who trains you?' he asked. 'Shoka of Shendi,' she said. 'Do you have a brand?' he asked. 'Yes, Master.' 'Why?' 'Because I am a slave.' 'Do you wear a collar?' 'Yes, Master.' 'What sort of collar do you wear?' 'A shipping collar, Master. It shows that I am a portion of the cargo of the 'Palms of the Schendi'.' I thought the girl's Gorean, though the responses were generally simple, had improved considerably over the last few days. 'What is the common purpose of a collar?' 'The collar has four common purposes, Master,' she said, 'First, it visibly designates me as a slave, as a brand might not, should it be covered by clothing. Second, it impresses my slavery upon me. Thirdly, it identifies me to my Master. Fourthly -- fourthly--' 'Fourthly?' he asked. 'Fourthly,' she said, 'it makes it easier to leash me.' He kicked her in the side. She winced. Her response had been slow. 'Do you like being a slave girl?' he asked. 'Yes, Master,' she said. She sobbed. She was again kicked. 'Yes, Master! Yes, Master!' she cried. 'What does a slave girl want more than anything?' he asked. 'To please men,' she said. 'What are you?' he asked. 'A slave girl,' she said. 'What do you want more than anything?' he asked. 'To please men!' she cried. 'Nadu!' he cried, loosening the whip coils on her throat. She swiftly knelt, back on her heels, back straight, head high, hands on her thighs, knees wide." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, pages 79 - 80 ~¤~
"She approached me and with the coils of the whip, tapped the metal on my neck. 'This is a collar.' she said. Then, with her left hand, she jerked at the metal piece attached to the collar. From the way it felt I gathered that it was as I had suspected. A ring. Then it fell back against the collar and against my collarbone. She then stepped back, and regarded me. Never had I been looked upon so objectively by a woman. 'I think you will do very nicely,' she said." Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 51 ~¤~
"An additional utility of the collar, though it did not count as one of its four common purposes, was that it made it easier to put the girl in various ties. For example, one can use it to tie her hands before her throat, or at the sides of back of her neck. One can use it with, say, rope or chain, to fasten girls together. One can tie her feet to her collar, and so on. If the feet are tied to the collar the knot is always in the front, so that the pressure will be against the back of the girl's neck and not the front. The purpose of such a tie is to hold the slave, not choke her. Gorean men are not clumsy in their binding of women." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 80 ~¤~
"What greater cruelty can a man inflict upon a slave than to deny her the collar?" she asked. Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 18
I suppressed a moan. Bikkie was excellent. I had little doubt but what she was a valuable slave, and would bring a high price. Bikkie wore, like one or two of the other girls still on the dais, only threads of leather, some dozen or so, depending from a leather sheathing encasing the locked, steel collar on her throat. On the front of the leather sheathing, which opened only at the back, to admit the key to the collar lock, there was sewn a red leather patch, small, in the shape of a heart. The heart to Goreans, as to certain of those of Earth, is understood as a symbol of love. The life of a slave girl, of course, is understood, too, as a life of love. She is given no alternative. The leather threads depending from the collar are stout enough to bind the hands of a girl, perhaps at her collar, that she may not interfere with what is done to her body, but they are not stout enough to bind a man. They may be used, of course in pleasing a master, not only in setting off the girl's ill concealed beauty, but in touching him, brushing him, stimulating him, twining about him, and so on. The girl knows that the same strands which can bind her helplessly as a slave, are strong enough only to delight and please her master. This helps her to understand that he is a man, and that she is a woman." Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 280
" 'They all wear collars', is the first portion of a familiar exchange, of which Goreans are fond. The second, and concluding, portion of the exchange is, 'But each in her collar is different'. This exchange, I think, makes clear the attitude of the Gorean toward the slave girl. In one sense, she is nothing, and is to be treated as such, but, in another sense, she is precious, and is everything." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 260 ~¤~
"The red savages do not use steel collars. They use high, beaded collars, tied together in the front by a rawhide string. Subtle differences in the styles of collars, and in the knots with which they are fastened on the girls' necks, differentiate the tribes. Within a given tribe the beading, in its arrangements and colors, identifies the particular master. This is a common way, incidentally, for warriors to identify various articles which they own." Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 102
"The collars had front and back rings, were hinged on the right and locked on the left. This is a familiar form of coffle collar. The lengths of chain between the collars were about three to four feet long. Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves, opened and then reclosed about the rings, and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings." Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 135
"Another common form of coffle collar has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck, like the common slave collar. It has a single collar ring, usually on the right, through which, usually, a single chain is strung. Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings." Book 17, Savages of Gor, pages 135 - 136
"To know what it is to be a slave one must be in the collar, one must be a slave." Book 24, Vagabonds of Gor, page 286 |
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