"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 ~¤~

"When one who is a slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceeded by lengthy torture."

Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 74 ~¤~

"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 to 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

" 'A girl in a collar is not permitted inhabitions,' 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

"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 thousand 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 hitherto 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

"...deterrent to the escape of slave girls, of course, is the severity of the penalties connected with escape attempts. 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 ~¤~

"I looked at the girl. She had tried to run away. She had lied at the praetor's desk. Yet her feet had not been removed. Her nose and ears had not been cut from her. She had been shown incredible mercy. She had only been whipped. Her transgressions, of course, had been first offenses, and she was only an ignorant barbarian. I think now, however, she clearly understood that Gorean men are not permissive, and that her second offenses in such matters would not be likely to be regarded with such lenience."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, pages 71 - 72 ~¤~

" '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 ~¤~

"Also, it might be noted that most Gorean warfare is carried out largely by relatively small groups of professional soldiers, seldom more than a few thousand in the field at a given time, trained men, who have their own caste. Total warfare, with its arming of millions of men, and its broadcast slaughter of hundreds of populations, is Gorean neither in concept nor in practice. Goreans, often castigated for their cruelty, would find such monstrosities unthinkable. Cruelty on Gor, though it exists, is usually purposeful, as in attempting to bring, through discipline and privation, a young man to manhood, or in teaching a female that she is a slave."

Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 145 ~¤~

"She was then conducted top the small side door, through which the [paga] attendant had emerged. Beyond it, I gathered, would lie such things as the kitchens, the offices, the cellars and pantries, the storage rooms, the dressing rooms, the discipline chamber and the kennels."

Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 22

" 'Tela, when captured,' he said, indicating a blonde, 'begged to be kept in white silk." He laughed. 'After throwing her to a crew, for their pleasure, we put her, as she had asked, in white silk.'
'Amusing,' I said.
'She now often begs for red silk,' he said."

Book 15, Rogue of Gor, pagev 197

" 'What do you think should be her punishment?' asked Callimachus of me.
'If she is guilty,' I said, 'whatever you wish, as she is a slave.' This was in full accord with Gorean law. Indeed, anything, for whatever reason, or without a reason, may be done to a slave."

Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 115 ~¤~

" 'I am so ashamed,' she said. 'I was so humiliated.'
'I understand,' I said. The females of the red savages, with their laughter and catcalls, in particular, would not have made the lovely slave's ordeal any easier. Too, that a given girl has been beaten, and has thus, presumably, failed to be fully pleasing in some way, makes her an object of contempt and ridicule among other girls. Little love is lost, commonly, between competitive slave girls. Girls commonly like seeing other girls being beaten, whom they think are too proud, or whom they don't like. It is almost a holiday in the slave quarters when a high slave is to be whipped, particularly if she is then to be reduced to the status of a common girl.
'Am I permitted to feel shame, humiliation?' she asked, angrily.
'Of course,' I said. 'Those are emotions which are permitted to slaves.'
'How generous are the masters,' she said.
'Too, shame and humiliation, like chains and whips, can be useful disciplinary devices.'
'Of course,' she said.
'A shamed, humiliated slave, tied and beaten, is usually swift thereafter to learn her lessons,' I said."

Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 72 - 73

" '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

"accordingly I had found myself relating to him in deep, real, primitive, sexual, natural, biological manner, in a manner certainly not that of a free woman, but rather of a slave or a slut. I, nonetheless found this to be quite fulfilling. Something in me found it quite rewarding to relate to a man in this fashion. I found it very stimulating to know that if I did not please him he might punish me."

Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 238

" '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

" 'Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave,' I said, 'even one who is the least bit displeasing, even one he might merely feel like disciplining. If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her master, and that only if the master can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation.' In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents."

Book 20, Players of Gor, page 135 or 235?

" 'I do not think you have beaten her much lately,' said Boabissia.
'No,' I said.
'Why not?' asked Boabissia.
'She is now pretty well trained,' I said.
' "Trained",' said Boabissia.
'Yes,' I said, 'ideally, once a girl is trained, suitably trained, of course, there is not likely to be much call for beating her. She may also, of course,' I said, 'be beaten at the master's pleasure, for any reason or for no reason.' "

Book 21, Mercenaries of Gor, page 233

"Some girls, whose hunger for bondage is just under the surface, if not manifest, are probably prepared to be superb slaves almost instantly, with no pain, or perhaps no more than a modicum of pain, perhaps only enough to assure them of the reality of their condition, that they are truly slaves, and subject to the strict discipline of an uncompromising master. Such women, eager to serve, rejoicing in the achievement at long last of this profound fulfillment, hitherto only dreamed of, ask little more than what to do and how to do it."

Book 21, Mercenaries of Gor, pages 333 - 334

" '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

" ‘Your condition is not what you do, but what you are.’ "
" ‘To be sure, susceptibility to the beating, similarly to an occupational hazard, in its way, is an inevitable concomitant of what will be your condition. The frequency and nature of these beatings will probably depend much on you. If you are pleasing, and perfectly so, you may or may not be beaten.’ "

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 62

"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

" 'I will not try to escape, Master,' said the girl. 'I wonder,' mused Marcus 'I am collared,' she said 'I am branded.'
'True,' said Marcus. In this way she had suggested that even if she might desire to escape such hope would be forlorn for her. She was reminding him of the categoricality of her condition, its absoluteness, of the hopelessness of escape for such as she, a female held in Gorean bondage. For example, there are not only such obvious things as the collar and brand, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with its social, legal and institutional recognition of, and inflexible enforcement of, her condition. There is, accordingly, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl. At best she might, at great risk to her own life, succeed in obtaining a new chaining, a new Master, and one who, in view of her flight, will undoubtedly see to it that she is incarcerated in harsher bondage than that from which she fled, to which, now, under her new strictures, she is likely to look back upon longingly. Similarly the penalties for attempted escape, particularly a second attempt, are severe, usually involving hamstringing. Only the most stupid of women dares even to think of escape, and then seldom more then once."

Book 25, Magician of Gor, page 32 - 33

"The discipline of a slave may be attended to by any free person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her Master did not learn of it. The legal principle is clear, and has been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 122

" 'You cannot punish me!' she cried. 'You are not my masters!'
'Any free person can punish an errant slave girl,' I said. 'Surely you do not think that her behavior fails to be subject to supervision and correction as soon as she is out of her Master's sight?' "

Book 25, Magicians, of Gor, page 225

"Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 428