"One of the first lessons I was taught on Gor was that concern for a slave was out of place."

Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 45 ~¤~

"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. On the other hand, it is not too unusual a set of compartments on Gor where the master, in effect, willingly wears the collar, and his lovely slave, by the practice of the delightful wiles of her sex, with scandalous success wheedles her way triumphantly from the satisfaction of one whim to the next."

Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 56 ~¤~

"Kajira is perhaps the most common expression for a female slave. Another frequently heard expression is Sa-Fora, a compound word, meaning, rather literally, Chain Daughter, or Daughter of the Chain."

Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 29 - 30 ~¤~

"I knew that only those who were free would be permitted to make a city. Doubtless there were many slaves in Ko-ro-ba but they would be allowed only to serve those who raised the walls and towers. Not one stone could be placed in either wall or tower by a man or woman who was not free. the only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of Masters, is Port Kar which lies in the delta of the Vosk."

Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 60 - 61 ~¤~

" 'In every woman,' said Ute, 'there is a Free Companion and a slave girl. The Free Companion seeks for her companion, and the slave girl seeks for her master.' "

Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 83 ~¤~

"The Goreans claim that in each woman there is a free companion, proud and beautiful, worthy and noble, and in each, too, a slave girl. The companion seeks for her companion; the slave girl for her master. It is further said, that on the couch, the Gorean girl, whether slave or free, who has had the experience, who has tried all loves, begs for a master. She wishes to belong completely to a man, withholding nothing, permitted to withhold nothing. And, of course, of all women, only a slave girl can truly belong to a man, only a slave girl can be truly his, in all ways, utterly, totally, completely, his, selflessly, at his mercy, his ecstatic slave, helpless and joyous in the total submission which she is given no choice but to yield."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 102 ~¤~

" 'Slaves,' I told her, 'are to be treated with great harshness and cruelty, and you are a slave.'
She moaned.
She lay on her back on the grass, and looked up at me. 'Am I to receive nothing?' she asked.
'Nothing?'
'You are to receive nothing,' I told her. 'Nothing.'
In half an Ahn she was wild, moaning, weeping, submissive in my arms.
And when in another half of an ahn she yielded it was with the helpless, uncontrollable yielding of the utterly vanquished Gorean slave girl. 'I am a slave,' she wept, 'a slave, only a slave.'
...........
'I am now totally your slave,' she wept. 'what will you do with me, Master?'
'I will sell you in Port Kar,' I told her. I then left her."

Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 219 ~¤~

"One of the great fears of a slave girl is that she will be sold to a woman. Free women treat their female slaves with incredible hatred and cruelty. Why this is I do not know. Some say it is because they, the free women, envy the girls their collars and wish that they, too, were collared, and at the complete mercy of masters."

Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page ??

"It is the nature of the female to submit; accordingly, it is natural that, when she is forced to acknowledge, accept, express and reveal this nature, that she should be almost deliriously joyful, and thankful, to her master; she has been taught her womanhood."

Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 155

"sometimes in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas ; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship ; only he and she know that their true relation is that of master and slave girl.:

Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 171

"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 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

" 'You are a slave,' I said. 'You are owned. You are a female. You will be forced to be a woman. If you were free, and Gorean, you might be permitted by men to remain as you are, but you are neither Gorean nor free. The Gorean man will accept no compromise on your femininity, not from a slave. She will be what he wishes, and that is a woman, fully, and his. If necessary you will be whipped or starved. You may fight your master. He will, if he wishes, permit this, to prolong the sport of your conquest, but in the end, it is you who are the slave; it is you who will lose. On Earth you had the society at your back, the result of centuries of feminization; he could not so much as speak harshly to you but you could rush away or summon magistrates; here, however, society is not at your back, but at his; it will abet him in his wishes, for you are only a slave; you will have no one to call, nowhere to run; you will be alone with him, and at his mercy. Further, he has not been conditioned with counterinstinctual value sets, programmed with guilt, taught self-hatred; he has been taught pride and has, in the very air he breathes, imbibed the mastery of females. These are different men. They are not Earthlings. They are Goreans. They are strong, and they are hard, and they will conquer you. For a man of Earth, you might never be a woman. For a man of Gor, I assure you, my dear, sooner or later you will be.' "

Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 12 ~¤~

" 'Most female slaves,' said Hassan, 'walk very proudly. They are proud of their slavery, and their mastery by men. They have learned their womanhood. It has been taught to them. In their way, though imbonded, totally, I suppose they are the truest and freest of women. They are closest, perhaps, to the essentials of the female, those of subservience to the masculine will, obedience, service and pleasure. In being most themselves, utter slave, they are most free. This is paradoxical, to be sure. Most girls, verbally, will object to slavery, but this half-hearted, pouting, ineffectual rhetoric is belied by the joy of their behavior.. No girl who has not been a slave can understand the joy of it, the profundity and freedom. The objections of girls to slavery, I have noted, are usually not objections to the institution which, in the sweet heat of their bodies, they love dearly, and fear only to lose, but to a given master. Given the proper master they are quite content. In the proper collar a woman is serene and joyful.' "

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, pages 332 - 333 ~¤~

"A slave girl owns nothing, she has nothing to offer a Man but her service and her beauty, she has nothing with which to pay but herself. That is the way Men want it."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 220

" 'What are my duties?' I asked.
'Exquisite beauty and absolute obedience,' said Sucha."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 261

"I looked at the girl in the mirror. I remembered the words of Thurnus. You belong at the feet of men," he had said. I looked at the girl in the mirror. Her ankle was belled. She was beautiful. She was a collared, silked, perfumed slave. She was beautiful. I had no doubt she belonged at the feet of men. She was a slave girl. She was I."

Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 261 - 262

" 'How can a girl who is only a slave be of interest?' she asked.
'Your question is foolish' I said. 'all men desire a slave or slaves, it is their nature. Thus, that a woman is a slave, even in itself, makes her extraordinarily interesting. Her slavery itself, apart from her intelligence or beauty, is found extremely provocative and exciting to a male, because of his nature.' "

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 219 ~¤~

" 'He is my master, not yours,' said Arlene, her small fist raised. 'Stay away from him!'
'I am a slave girl,' said Audrey. 'I must be pleasing to all free men!' "

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 223 ~¤~

" 'Most girls are treated kindly,' I said, 'provided they are absolutely pleasing in all ways.' "

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 230 ~¤~

" 'No,' she said. 'It is only that the domination to which the Gorean slave girl is subject is so uncompromising, so complete.' "

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 230 ~¤~

" 'It is absolutely uncompromising and complete,' I told her. 'Goreans are not men of Earth,' I said. 'They will have what they truly want from a woman, everything.'
'Though I am destined to be the helpless victim of their will, their power and their lust,' she said, 'yet I cannot help but admire and fear such men.'
'They will make you be a woman, their woman,' I said."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 230 ~¤~

" 'I think it is true,' I said, 'that it is generally the most beautiful and desirable women who are the slaves, but I will tell you something you may find of interest.'
'What is that?' she asked.
'Slavery itself,' I said, 'often makes a woman more beautiful and desirable. It removes tensions. It removes inhibitions. It makes women happy. It is hard, I think, sometimes, for a woman who is happy not to be beautiful. Sometimes Goreans ask, is she a slave because she is beautiful, or beautiful because she is a slave?' "

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, pages 246 - 247 ~¤~

" 'Are many Gorean slave girls of Earth origin?' she asked.
'I assume all human Goreans are of Earth origin,' I said.
'I mean,' she said, 'like me, a girl born and raised on Earth, and then brought to Gor as a slave.'
'Statistically,' I said, 'surely few. How many I would not know.'
'Ten,' she asked, 'twenty?'
'Perhaps some four or five thousand,' I said. 'I would not know.' Such a number, I conjectured, would not even be missed in a population which teemed like that of Earth."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 247 ~¤~

" 'Do masters much talk with their girls, or take them with them?' she asked.
'Certainly,' I said. 'It is extremely pleasurable to talk with a girl one owns. Also, one takes her many places, she heeling him, to concerts, contests, song dramas and so on, both to show her off and because he finds her a joy to be with.'
'I think I could well serve such a master,' she said."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 250 ~¤~

" 'A slave is pleased if her master should find her pleasing,' she said."

Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 426 ~¤~

"There was a time for slaves, and a time for matters of importance."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 15

"Slavery is cultural for Goreans. They know it is something a woman can be."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 107 ~¤~

" 'I can be attractive, if I wish,' she said.
'I doubt it,' he said.
'Behold!' she said, striking a pose.
'It is fraudulent,' he said. 'Women such as you understand nothing of attractiveness. With you it is a matter of externals, of acting. Any true man sees through it immediately. You confuse the pretense with the truth, the artificial with imitative with the reality. You think you could become attractive but merely choose not to be so. It is a delusion, as you understand these things. This permits you to console yourself with lies and at the same time, provides you with an excuse for despising and belittling the truely attractive woman, thinking she is merely as you would be, if you were she, acting. But it is not true. The source of a woman's attractiveness is within her. It is internal. It comes from the inside out. She is vulnerable, and desires men, and wishes to be touched and owned. This then shows in her body and movements, and in her eyes and face. That is the truly attractive woman.' "

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 142 - 143 ~¤~

" 'Do you think you will have an easy slavery with me?' he asked.
'No, Master,' she said.
'You are right,' he said. 'Your slavery will be a full slavery.'
'I desire no other,' she said, turning her head to face him.
I could smell the heat of her."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 276 ~¤~

"The slave girl moves, and carries herself, differently from a free woman. This is evident in such small things as fetching a cup for her master or in pouring his wine. These movements, and bodily attitudes and postures, subtle and beautiful, difficult to fully disguise, have betrayed more than one slave beauty who, disguised as a free woman, h as sought to flee a city. The spears of guards, lowered, to her dismay, suddenly block her way. 'Where are you going, Slave?' they ask. She is then knelt and stripped, her collar and brand revealed. Returned to her master, she may be confident that her punishment will not be light."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 276 ~¤~

"An Earth woman who exhibits sensuous movement is commonly ostracized or in some other way socially punished. The contempt in which the exotic dancer on Earth is held, despite the richness of her music and beauty, is a symptom of this pathology. The freedoms of the Earth woman do not extend to the point where she is permitted to move as a woman. That she is not supposed to be free to do. The freedoms of the Earth woman, in effect, are freedoms to conform, within reasonably narrow limits, to certain socially approved stereotypes. Females of Earth, not permitted to move as women, are expected to perform what are, in effect, male-imitation movements. It is little wonder that they occasionally, crying out with frustration, dance naked before a mirror. It is little wonder that in their dreams they are roped and thrown to warriors. On Gor, of course, the woman, if she be slave, is no longer progibited, because of cultural requirments, from expressing the kinesthetic realities of her womanhood."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 318 ~¤~

"The slave girl learns to think of herself as deeply and radically feminine, as uncompromisingly feminine. she thus, soon unconsciously, thinks and moves as what she is, a female. Moreover there is a special modality to the movements of the slave girl. She knows not only that she is a female, but female in the most radical and profound sense, and owned female, one at the bidding of masters. this excites her, and cannot help but be reflected in her movements. She is the most natural, biological and profound of women, the woman at the mercy of men, who must obey and serve them, the slave girl.
The blond haired barbarian put a bit more wood on the fire. I smiled. The men of Earth think often of sex as a simple matter of explicit congress. This is, however, much too limited. The perimeters of sex are not limited to those of physiological union. Any woman, I suppose, knows this; it is unfortunate that it is not recognized by more men. The blond haired barbarian and I, she beneath my will, were now surely intensely engaged in sex; yet she was feet from me, and I was not touching her."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, pages 318 - 319 ~¤~

" 'Am I an object?' she asked.
'Of course,' I said. 'And a very delicious one,' I added.
'Thank you, Master,' she said.
'Does it trouble you to be an object?' I asked.
'I do not feel like an object,' she said.
'Technically,' I said, 'in the eyes of Gorean law you are not an object but an animal.'
'I see,' she said.
'In one sense,' I said, 'no living human being, not bird nor squirrel, can be an object. They are not, for example, tables or rocks. In another sense, all living creatures are objects. For example, they occupy space and obey the laws of physics and chemistry.'
'You know what I mean,' she said.
'No,' I said. 'I do not. Speak more clearly.'
'A woman is treated like an object,' she said, 'when men do not listen to her or care for her feelings.'
'Surely women, in the single-minded pursuit of certain goals, can treat other women, and men, in that way?" I asked. "And men could treat men in that way, and so on? Is not the problem you have in mind rather a general one?'
'Perhaps,' she said.
'Similarly,' I said, 'do not confuse being treated as an object with being an object. Similarly, do not confuse being treated as an object with being regarded as an object. For example, indivduals who treat human beings as objects very seldom think that they are really objects. That would suggest insanity.'
'You do not respond properly,' she smiled.
'Is your criterion for being treated as an object that men do not agree with you?' I asked, 'If so, then that is somewhat obtuse.'
'I suppose it is,' she said. 'If men do not do what we want, then they, so to speak, have not listened to us or paid attention to our feelings.'
'That is a very interesting way of thinking,' I admitted. 'By the same token, if women did not pay close attention to the wishes of men and comply with their desires, then men might be entitled to regard themselves as being treated as objects.'
'How silly,' she said.
'Yes,' I said.
'It is hard to talk with you about these things,' she said.
'I think so,' I said."

Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 352 ~¤~

" 'Did you not see how I danced before you?' she asked.
'Yes,' I said.
'You excite me, Master,' she said. 'Does that horrify you? Does that scandalize you? Does it startle and discomfort you, does it so dismay you, does it seem so hard to comprehend, that a woman from Earth could be sexually excited, that she could have sexual desires, that she could feel helpless and frustrating passion, that she could beg even to be sexually satisfied?'
'It is not typical,' I said. 'And it is not permitted.'
'It is typical!' she said. 'How little you know of women! And on Gor it is permitted--to slaves!'
I did not speak.
'On Gor,' she said, 'I have experienced feelings and sensations I never knew could exist. Inhibitions have been shattered, some of them commanded from me by strong men and the blows of the whip, I have learned to live and to feel. My emotions have been freed. My deepest sexuality and nature have on this world at last been fully liberated. I have found myself. I love and I serve. I now know at last what and who I am, a love slave for uncompromising masters.' "

Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 15

"A slave's gratitude is nothing, as are slaves."

Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 9

" 'The free woman,' I said, 'lies down and waits to see what will happen. The female slave kneels beside her master, and begs to please him. The free woman deems it sufficient that she should exist, the slave girl, on the other hand, is expected not only to exist, but to excel; indeed, she fears only, commonly, that she may not be sufficiently marvelous for her master. It is little wonder that most men find the free woman, in her inertness, her ignorance and arrogance, boring. It is little wonder that most men prefer to order her rival to their furs, the helpless, collared, curvaceous, lascivious, feminine slave.' "

Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 197

"Sometimes slaves are skillful in immeshing masters in the toils of their beauty. How often do they conquer us with their softness! How often are we the victims of their delicious, insidious charms and wiles! What drums and alarms are found, upon occasion, in their glances and smiles. What battalions can march in a tearful eye and a trembling lip. What potent strategies can lurk in the line of a breast or the turn of a hip. How a bent knee and a bowed head can wrench a man's guts. Helplessness and vulnerability seem strange shields; how implausible is gentleness as an instrument of diplomacy; what an unlikely weapon is her tenderness. Who is most powerful, I wondered, the master or the slave? Then I realized that it is the master who is most powerful for he may, if he wishes, put her on the block and sell her or dispose of her in any way he pleases. In the end, in the final analysis, it is he, and not she, who holds the whip. It is she who, in the end, must kneel at the feet of a master, completely at his mercy, her will, in the final analysis, nothing. It is she who, in the end, in the final analysis, is owned, and must please, absolutely."

Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 316

"I discovered I had talents I didn't know I had, and I found myself thrilled to apply them. Though it was I, in the final analysis, who was in his total power, yet I found, to my gratification and astonishment, that I could turn him into a twisting, writhing slave under my touch. Then, angrily, he would seize me and throw me beneath him, making me helpless. I was then well reminded who, ultimately, was in command. Certainly he had not permitted me to relate to him, in the least, in the inhibitory modalities of dignity and respect; 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

"Being a slave is a whole way of life, involving a total modality of existence. There is a great deal more to it than simply serving a master on the furs."

Book 20, Players of Gor, pages 379 - 380

"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

" 'You are in far greater danger of being killed as a free woman,' I said. 'Just as it would not occur to most men to kill a pet sleen or a kaiila, it would not occur to them to kill a slave. She is, like other domestic animals, not a person, but a property. She, like them, has certain sorts of work which she may be put, and very pleasurable work often, and, like them, has her many values and uses. If a city is taken, while free folks may be fleeing about, and be subject to indiscriminate slaughter, she is likely, instead, to be secured and protected. She is, you see, like the sleen and kaiila, part of the clearly understood spoils of victory. Surely you can understand that you yourself, for example, might make delicious booty.' "

Book 21, Mercenaries of Gor, page 419

"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

"I supposed I was a wicked, worthless woman and, far worse, only a despicable natural slave, but something deep in me, fundamental in me, proud and ancient in me, loved men, and I did not want to make them small, and nothing, but wanted, rather, to please them, to obey them, to serve them, to give my all to them, to make them strong and proud, grand and glorious, to make them happy. But here, among the virile men of Gor, I had little choice in such matters. such things, regardless of whether or not I might wish to bestow them of my own free will, would be simply commanded of me."

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 75

"In reconciling myself to bondage I had, also, to reconcile myself to this condition, it is a part of bondage. It is something which the slave must accept. Without it there can be no true slavery.
I had accepted this condition, at least theoretically, verbally acknowledging its incumbency on me, in my training. somehow, interestingly, this acceptance too, seemed liberating to me, it made my bondage much more real to me.
Too, interestingly, in its way, it also made it seem much more precious to me."

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 92

" 'Yes Master, of course Master,' I said. I was a female slave. I existed now for the the pleasure of men. It was what I was for."

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 141

"On Gor there are many sayings about masters and slaves. One is in the form of a question and answer.
The question is, ‘What does a slave owe a Master?’ The answer is, ‘Everything, and then a thousand times more.’ "

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 188

"In Gorean mythology, it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and the Priest-Kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of time, would be the slaves of men."

Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 352

" `You responded well to the taking,' I said. `Perhaps it is fitting for you.'
`You do not respect me,' she said.
`You do not want to be respected,' I said. `You want to be cherished, treasured, handled, abused, mastered, owned, subdued, forced to serve and love.'
She was silent."

Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 105

"Shirley, holding and pressing her lips to the hand of Aemilianus, looked up at me. I smiled. Swords are often drawn on Gor over women, and particularly over lovely slaves. Women are prizes, perfections and treasures. It is no wonder that men fight over them with ferocity. Wars have been fought to recover a stolen slave."

Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 397

"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 am a slave girl. I live to be the obedient, grateful, vunerable object of such lust and power. I have always dreamed of it. I wish to be choiceless, to be overpowered, and made to serve."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page ??

"The intelligence and sensitivity of many women actually tends to blossom in bondage, finding within it the apt environment for its expression, for its flowering. This may have to do with such matters as the release of inhibitions, happiness, fulfillment, and such."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 194

" 'But a free woman is a thousand times more valuable than a slave!' she said. 'Many,' said I, 'regard a slave as a thousand times more valuable than a free woman.' It interested me that she had put a specific value on a free woman. 'But then,' I said, 'many also believe that the free woman and the slave are the same, except for a legal technicality.' 'Free women are only slaves, not yet collared,' I said."

Book 24, Vagabonds of Gor, pages 192 - 193

"But all women wish to be slaves," he said. "Yes," I said. "Because in their hearts they are slaves," he said. "Yes," I said."

Book 24, Vagabonds of Gor, page 317

"The love of a slave girl is the deepest and most profound love that any woman can give a man. Love makes a woman a man's slave, and the wholeness of that love requires that she be, in truth, his slave."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 31

"The demeaning of men, whereas it is permitted to, and not unknown among, free women, is not permitted to female slaves. Such, on their part, can be a capital offense."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 227