If something is not beautiful, it is probably a mistake. The Gorean books contain little, if any, explicit sex. Enlisting the imagination of the reader, or viewer, is important. Subtlety, and suggestion, detonate the erotic dynamite. What makes the Gorean books as profoundly sensuous as they are is primarily due, I would suppose, to their psychological dimension. They are not crude, and not particularly physiological or anatomical. They are not much concerned with hydraulics. They are concerned with a total experience, within a full human context.

The human species, as certain other species, is characterized, happily, by a radical sexual dimorphism, a difference in structure so obvious that commonly one can easily, at a glance, even at a distance, distinguish a male from a female. In the Gorean milieu this sexual dimorphism, which is not only anatomical, but psychological, as well, is recognized, and celebrated. Accordingly, the Gorean men should be large, rugged and virile, and the women should be smaller, clearly, obviously weaker, and thus radically, unequivocally vulnerable, and extremely beautiful and exquisitely feminine. Avoid, at all costs, "muscle-bound viragoes," silly "warrior princess" types, etc. The Gorean world is too realistic, and too close to the biotruths of human nature, for them. In the Gorean world we are dealing with real people, with real men and real women.

In all visualizations one must keep in mind both taste and beauty. Gor is a perilous but beautiful world. In Gor we find an exciting, different, dramatic reality. It is exotic, splendid, complex and rich. And it is sensuous, very sensuous... A good maxim to keep in mind is that if it is not beautiful it is not Gorean.
---J. Norman, Dec. 2000