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She will commonly serve head down, and will keep two hands on the goblet or plate until it is placed softly, gently, carefully, deferently, before the free person. The girl, Alcinoë, and three others, had been assigned to our table. Today she had dared to place a goblet before me held with one hand. The two-handed grasp is much more aesthetic; it suggests deference; it frames her body, and it brings her wrists together, as though they might be chained. It is prescribed in slave serving. It makes it impractical, too, of course, to hold a dagger, say, behind one's back. Similarly, the scantiness of common slave garb, though its principal purpose is to display the slave's beauty, has the additional advantage that it tends to render the concealment of a weapon impractical. - (Mariners of Gor)