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| 37 | 257 | View more quotes about usually">Usually, on the other hand, the properties sought are obvious, and the male, commonly, is handsome and strong. |
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| 37 | 254 | She did not need the sip root, of course, for, as she had pointed out, she had had some within the moon, and, indeed, the effect of sip root, in the raw state, in most women, is three or four moons. |
| 37 | 255 | In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser, as suggested, for its remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the "second wine". |
| 37 | 256 | When this is administered she usually understands, as suggested, that she has been selected for breeding, for crossing with a male slave, and, naturally, one supposes, it will be one, or is likely to be one, with properties which, combined with hers, are calculated from the master's point of view to produce an offspring of the sort he is looking for, one of the sort for which he is breeding her. |
| 37 | 257 | Usually, on the other hand, the properties sought are obvious, and the male, commonly, is handsome and strong. |
| 37 | 258 | Thus, if the offspring is female, she is likely to be attractive, and thus, eventually, she should prove to be of value on the auction block, and if the offspring is male he is likely to be powerful, and thus of greater utility in the performance of heavy tasks, for example, in haulage, in digging and building, in the quarries, at the oar of a galley. |
| 37 | 259 | Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the man functions best as free and the woman best as subdued, mastered slave, that the man, then, is a natural master and the female his natural slave. |
| 37 | 260 | It might also be mentioned, however, that there is a market for handsome male slaves which caters to rich free women, and, to a lesser extent, to rich free men. |