"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 from Gor."
-Outlaw of Gor

kajira: female slave

barbarian: a native of the planet Earth, usually used in a derogatory sense in reference to slave girls from that planet. Also defined as slave girls captured from outlying regions or cities. Barbarian slave girls from Earth are considered shamelessly sensual.

bath girls: are slaves at the public and private baths. They wear a chain and plate collar. The plate gives their name and cost. They wear towels with nothing beneath them. While swimming, many wrap a long broad strap of glazed leather about their heads like a turban. The bath girls are there for the pleasure of men. Sometimes the girls will pretend to swim away from the men and try to escape but are easily caught by the men. This is done on purpose as most girls could easily avoid the men if they wished. They become excellent swimmers.

below deck girl: the term used for slave girls transported in the hold of a ship. They are held in individual cages and because of infestations of lice, all of their body hair is shaved. The term 'below-deck girl' is used derisively especially by those slave girls allowed to remain on deck in cages, who need not have shaved heads, though all slaves on a slaver ship are unclothed.

bond-maid: the term for a slave girl used in Torvaldsland also called a girl whose belly lies under the sword

chamber slave: A slave of the Priest Kings restricted to use within a particular chamber; these slaves cannot leave the chamber and are to serve the Freeperson living there fully. "Priest Kings of Gor" p. 36

coin girl: a slave girl who, with a coinbox and triangular flat bell chained around her neck, is sent out in the streets of a city to earn money from Masters in return for her sexual use

display girl: a slave girl whose primary purpose is for the display of her beauty to reflect the affluence of her Master; often chained in coffle with other display slaves behind the palanquin or other transport of her Master

exotic slave: a slave male or female bred for special purposes producing quaint or unusual purposes; an example is the passion slave.

field slave: these slaves work outdoors, usually gardening, fetching wood or water, etc. She is commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics. Her hair is shorn.

first girl: slave appointed by the Master to oversee other usually younger or less experienced girls; she rules when FreePersons are not present as the Master, but she is subject to his total authority, usually called Mistress by the other girls, she may have switching rights over them as well.

flute girl: a slave trained in the art of music, specifically the playing of the double flute. They perform at various functions and are available for sexual use by those free men of their audience.

house girl: one whose primary duties are inside the residence. Duties range from personal serving girls to kettle and mat girls.

kettle slave/pot girl: girl whose main function is cooking and other menial household tasks; used disparagingly.

kettle and mat girl: a slave girl whose function is divided between household tasks and sexual servitude

last girl: used to denote either the newest girl on a chain, or the least of all the girls.

luck girl: a slave girl who acts as mascot onboard ship; her use is usually reserved for the captain of the ship, but she may be shared with the crew, usually as a disciplinary measure.

lure girl: slaves who are set out by their master's to entice men for the purposes of empressing as crewmen or in work gangs. While the man is delightfully distracted, her master's men accost him and hustle him away; also used by panther girls to entice men to be captured as their slaves.

mul: a Priest-King term for a human slave

passion slave: a slave girl who has been bred, rather than captured; specifically, one that has been bred for a particular trait, such as beauty or slave heat or the shape of her lips.

personal serving slave: a slave assigned or owned by the person she obeys. Her duties may include running errands, general cleaning, or caring for personal belongings.

pierced ear girl: a slave girl whose ears have been pierced; as piercing a girl's ears is consider the ultimate degradation, it virtually guarantees that the girl will never be freed; the practice first became popular after the fall of Turia to the Wagon Peoples, but is gaining acceptance in the northern cities, especially Ar

pleasure slave: a slave girl whose main function is sexual servitude to her master; traditionally, she kneels with her knees spread wide, and her hands either resting on her thighs or, in some cities, crossed behind her, ready for binding.

scribe slave: scribes that have been captured, they do the bookkeeping no one else wants to do. they are above other slaves with the fact they can read and write, but aren't above, like all slaves, cooking, cleaning and warming the furs

self-contract, limited slave: an arrangement wherein a Free Woman contracts to be an experimental slave for a period of time ranging from one night to a year. Her documents will contain a specified termination date.

side block girl: A slave girl sold for a fixed price from the side block of a slave auction house instead of auctioned from the main block; used disparagingly.

silk girl: term used by those of Torvaldsland to denote a slave girl from the southern cities; often used disparagingly.

state girl: a state owned girl may have various duties, ranging from general cleaning to carrying messages. State tunics and collars are uniform, sleeveless and plain. Considered by most states an unenviable slavery.

tavern slave: also called "kettle-and-mat girls" see above

tower slave: a state slave girl in any of the cities of Gor; her duties in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic; traditionally, she kneels with her knees together and with her wrists crossed in front of her, as if for binding.

work slave: a category of slaves consisting of field slaves, stable slaves, etc. These females are considered, like kettle and mat girls, to be low slaves.

"Male slaves, on Gor, are not particularly valuable, and to not command high prices. Most labor is performed by free men. Most commonly, male slaves are utilized on the cargo galleys, and in the mines, and on the great farms. They also serve, frequently, as porters at the wharves. Still, perhaps they are fortunate to have their lives, even at such a price. Males captured in war, or in the seizure of cylinders or villages, or in the pillaging of caravans, are commonly slain. The female is the prize commodity in the Gorean slave markets. A high price for a male is a slaver tarsk, but even a plain wench, of low caste, provided she moves well to the touch of the auctioneer's coiled whip, will bring as much or more. An exception to the low prices for males generally is that paid for a certified woman's slave, a handsome male, silken clad, who has been trained to tend a woman's compartments. Some of such bring a price comparable to that brought by a girl, of average loveliness. Prices, of course, tend to fluctuate with given markets and seasons. If there are few such on the market in a given time, their prices will tend to be proportionately higher. Such men tend to be sold in women's auctions, closed to free men, with the exception, of course, of the auctioneer and such personnel."
-Hunters of Gor

kajurus: male slave

Field slaves: these slaves work in the fields, cultivating and caring for the crops, commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics with shorn hair.

fighting slaves: Many cities have arena for gladitorial combat. This combat is often quite lethal and many fighting slaves are seriously injured or killed during these games. These male slaves may learn the use of certain weapons, primarily cestae and other common arena weapons. In most cases, free men do not enter these arena games.

galley slaves: Port Kar, Cos and Tyros utilize thousands of male galley slaves on their ships. seduction slaves: They are used to lure free women into compromising situations so that the women can be made slaves by the couching laws. The couching laws exist in many Gorean cities. Essentially the law states that any free woman who couches with another’s slave, or even prepares to do so, becomes a slave herself and the slave of the male slave’s master.

silk slave: a male slave kept by Free Women as sexual toys, handsome and sometimes pretty by male standards, these slaves are often muscular and manly, as Free Women love having strong men at their feet, this can be dangerous if the slave doesn't know his place or wishes to be free. At the present time there is a city ordinance in Ar which restricts the sexual use, or "couching" of slaves by Free Women, due to the widespread belief that the physical charms of precious Free Women are reserved only for the free.

stable slave: these kajiri are kept in stables and care for the livestock sometimes fighting for benefits, or betting money for their Owners; rewarded with female stable slaves

thralls: male slaves of Torvaldsland

Quotes referenced on this site are from the series of books, Chronicles of Counter Earth, of the planet Gor.
-authored by John Norman