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| 39 | 213 | The View more quotes about question">question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. |
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| 39 | 210 | Sometimes, however, the free woman in a captured city is not, say, simply stripped, thrown down and tied, later to be turned over to an iron master for the searing kiss of his white-hot metal. |
| 39 | 211 | Sometimes, rather, she, stripped, and presented before officers, is offered the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. |
| 39 | 212 | If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, belly to an officer, kissing his feet. |
| 39 | 213 | The question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. |
| 39 | 214 | "If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave". |
| 39 | 215 | She is then expected, sometimes, kneeling, to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the mat. |
| 39 | 216 | It is commonly regarded as an acceptable introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery. |