By the Book


by deanna{KR3}

deanna found a few interesting quotes from the scrolls, she read them over and over trying to understand her own slavery, yes as it is said a kajira learns each day and each day she finds out more about her slavery, a question first and many will have different answers but as she reads the scrolls she finds the words that soothe her and make her realize what being a slave truly means... the question is does a slave have any rights?

does a slave have the right to have pride?

"Oh, oh," she moaned, softly.
She looked up at me. "How can you respect me?" she asked.
"You are not to be respected," I told her. "You are only a slave."
"Yes, Master," she said.
"You no longer have any pride to guard," I said. “A slave is not permitted pride."
"Yes, Master," she wept. "Oh, oh." Then she threw her head to the side, on the furs. "I want to respect myself!" she cried.
"Your obligation is not to respect yourself," I told her, "but to be yourself."
(Explorers of Gor, pg 175)
does a slave even own her own name?

In the eyes of Goreans, and Gorean law, the slave is an animal. She is not a person, but an animal. She has no name, saving what her master might choose to call her. She is without caste. She is without citizenship. She is simply an object, to be bartered, or bought or sold. She is simply an article of property, completely, nothing more. (Hunters of Gor, pg 148)

Yes, my dear, you are legally an animal. In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal. You have no name in your own right. You may be collared and leashed. You may be bought and sold, whipped, treated as the master pleases, disposed of as he sees fit. You have no rights whatsoever. Legally you have no more status than a tarsk or vulo. Legally, literally, you are an animal. (Explorers of Gor, pg 316)

The case with slaves, of course, is much different from that of free women, either those of Gor or Earth. Their names are simply given to them, as the names of animals. They may be altered or changed at will. Indeed, sometimes a slave is not even given a name. The names a slave wears, of course, are functions of the master's pleasure. They can own a name no more than they can own anything else. It is they who are owned. Some masters have favorite names for girls. Some masters may reward a hard-working girl with a lovely name; others may torment a slave who has been insufficiently pleasing with a cruel or ugly name. Most girls, of course, are given beautiful and exciting slave names, for the masters wish the girl, too, to be beautiful and exciting. … Needless to say, a slave girl, as she changes collars, may change names. Most girls, in passing from the hands of one master into those of another, will have had various names. (Explorers of Gor, pg 366)

is a slave allowed to hide her sexual feelings?

“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. (Marauders of Gor, pg 278)
is a slave allowed any privacy at all?

Slaves, of course, being mere articles of property, are not entitled to privacy. (Guardsman of Gor, pg 171)
a slave has no rights, she is allowed only what her Master gives her and even that maybe taken away from her and she need not ask the reason why

slavery is not an easy life but a wonderful one filled with riches the only thing is, a slave must truly want, need, desire, and crave to please

How incredibly, and yet rationally and justifiably, I felt at his mercy. He was my master. He owned me. He could do whatever he wanted with me. He could trade me or sell me, or even slay me upon a whim, should he wish. I was absolutely his, his girl. (Slave Girl of Gor, pg 108)

Slavery to the woman is more than a sexual matter, though sexuality is intimately and profoundly involved in it, essentially, crucially and ultimately. It is an entire mode of being, an entire way of life, one intimately associated with love and service. (Vagabonds of Gor, pg 53)

“The life of a female slave,” he said, “is a life wholly given over to love. It is not a compromised life. It is not one of those lives which is part this, and part that. It is a total way of life, a total life. The female slave seeks to give all, selflessly, knowing that she, as she is a mere slave, a rightless animal owned by her master, one who can be bought and sold at his least whim, can make no claims, that she deserves nothing, and is entitled to not the least attention or consideration. There are no bargains made with her, no arrangements.” (Mercenaries of Gor, pg 435)

until next week deanna wishes much love to all and maybe reading the scrolls helps her to understand herself as well as maybe helping others to see what Gor truly has to offer


May 18, 2002