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Pierced ears, too, tend to improve a girl's price. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 20, Sentence #126)

To be sure, they are attractive on a slave, and, eventually, a slave is likely to become quite proud of them, even defiantly arrogant, for what they say about her, about what she means to men and what may be expected of her in a man's hands. She is special on a chain. Much may be expected of her. Pierced ears, too, tend to improve a girl's price. For that reason, even in the absence of discipline, slavers sometimes pierce a girl's ears, to her misery and horror, before putting her on the block, a pierced-ear girl. "And if," said Alcinoë, "the woman was free, and even of high caste, I would have arranged for her to be in a collar by nightfall, and, chained, hurried from the city, to some mean and distant market, from which, after piercing her ears, she would be sold for a pittance". Yes, I thought to myself, the former lady Flavia of Ar herself would look quite well in earrings. - (Mariners of Gor)