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Some reasons, I gather, for the veiling of free women, aside from questions of modesty, is to mark their distinction from slaves and render them less likely to be targeted by, and predated upon by, professional slavers, who, it is supposed, will, considering the risks involved, be then more likely to direct their attentions to slaves, whose charms are more easily ascertainable. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter 26, Sentence #243)

This observation then, I suspect, sheds some additional light, at least from the Gorean point of view, on the raised-head position of the pleasure slave, namely, that her features are publicly, blatantly displayed. Animals, for example, are not veiled. On the other hand, I have spoken to some Gorean girls who have fallen slave and I learn, to my interest, that most are delighted to be freed from the layerings, the heat and general discomfort, of veiling. Some reasons, I gather, for the veiling of free women, aside from questions of modesty, is to mark their distinction from slaves and render them less likely to be targeted by, and predated upon by, professional slavers, who, it is supposed, will, considering the risks involved, be then more likely to direct their attentions to slaves, whose charms are more easily ascertainable. It might also be noted that raids to acquire women are not the domain exclusively of professional slavers. It is almost a sport among Gorean young men, to hunt and capture a woman of a hostile city and bring her back to one's own city as a stripped slave. It is not unusual for a young tarnsman to essay this feat as a first adventure. - (Kajira of Gor)