ear piercing

Ear piercing used to be, for a slave, a degradation. It has become more common as time has passed, seen as a beautiful ornamentation of a girl in bondage. It does, however, make a statement of her bondage for all to see, as the ears are never covered. Thus, making it so she will not be Free.

"I turned her head, from side to side. How exciting were the earrings, penetrating the soft flesh of her ear lobes. I looked at the tiny wires vanishing in the minute punctures and then emerging, looping the ears, as though in a slave bond, making them the mounting from which, thus fastened upon her, but My will, dangled two golden rings, barbaric ornaments enhancing the beauty of the slave. I smiled to myself. On Earth I had thought little of earrings. Yet now, in the Gorean setting, how exquisite and exciting they suddenly seemed. Perhaps then, for the first time, I truly began to sense how the Gorean views such things. Surely these things are symbolic as well as beautiful. The girl's lovely ears have been literally pierced; the penetrability of her sweet flesh is thus brazenly advertised upon her very body, a proclamation of her ready vulnerability, in incitement to Male rapine. And when she wears the earrings, He can see the metal disappearing in the softness of her ear, literally fixed within it. Her flesh is doubly penetrated, her softness about the intruding metal, before His eyes. The wire loop, too, or rod, when it emerges from the ear and, by one device or another, fastens the ring upon her, may suggest her bondage. Too, if the ring itself is closed, perhaps it suggests her susceptibility to the locked shackle, say, a wrist ring or slave bracelet, would there not, in the two rings, be one, so to speak, for each wrist? It is little wonder that Gorean Free Women never pierce their ears, it is little wonder that, in the beginning, it was uncommon on Gor for almost any pleasure slave to have her ears pierced; the custom of piercing the ears of a slave has now become relatively widespread; it has been done in Turia, of course, for generations. Too, of course, the ring is an obvious ornament. The girl placed in it has thus been ornamented. Ornamentation is not inappropriate in a slave. Lastly, the ring is beautiful. Thus it makes the slave more beautiful."
~Explorers of Gor, page 202~

It was interesting to Me that the girls so objected to the piercing of their ears. What fools they were. I had never had my ears pierced on Earth, of course, but I had contemplated having it done. I might have had it done, if I had remained on Earth. Surely a great many of the girls and women I knew on Earth had had their ears pierced. How else would one wear the finest earrings?
~Captive of Gor, page 160~

The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls of course, was a custom of distant Turia, famed for its wealth and its nine great gates. It lay on the southern plains of Gor, far below the equator, the hub of an intricate pattern of trade routes. Some two or three years ago it had fallen to Barbarians, Nomadic Warriors, and many of its Citizens, in the flight from the City, had escaped north. With Them had come certain articles, techniques and customs. One could tell a Turian because He insisted on celebrating the New Year at the summer solstice, for instance. They also used very sweet syrupy wines, which were now, in many Cities, available. The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a Man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the Northern Cities. The piercing of ears of slave girls, that they might have earrings fastened to them, was another Turian custom. It had been known on Gor before, but it was only with the flight of the escaping Turians that it became more widespread recently.
~Captive of Gor, page 160~

"How can I ever hope to become a Free Companion," she wept. "What Man would want a Woman with the pierced ears of a slave girl? And if I were not veiled, anyone might look upon Me, and laugh, and scorn Me, seeing that My ears had been pierced, as those of a slave girl!"
~Captive of Gor, page 167~