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Would it not be a rare girl who has been sold but once? One is then concerned less with the fact that one is sold, for one knows one is a slave, than the quality of the market, the category in which one is sold, say, a pot girl or a pleasure slave, the price one may bring, particularly in comparison with that of others, and, of course, the nature of the buyer, say, a private individual, for which one hopes, or a farm, a business, a municipality, or such. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 5, Sentence #248)

That is interesting, considering the fact that we have been sold, bartered, and exchanged for millennia, and doubtless for millennia before the records of such transactions were scratched on bark, or incised into tablets of moist clay Is it so unusual to be exchanged for barley, or cattle, or sheep, or pigs, or bars of iron, or a jingling handful of metal disks? Have not women served often enough as loot, to be allotted amongst victors, to be auctioned in foreign capitals? In kingdoms have not princesses been bartered for land, for alliances and power? Have not the daughters of the rich often served as seals upon bargains? And have we ourselves not unoften sought to sell ourselves, for our own gain? Have we not sought avidly for the golden bed, and the highest bidder? It is one thing, of course, to sell ourselves as goods for our own profit, while denying this, and quite another to find ourselves explicitly recognized as goods, undeniably so, openly and objectively so, and being sold for the profit of another. It is a strange feeling, at first, to realize that one has been sold, that one now belongs to another, as much as a pig or shoe. I am told, however, that one grows used to such things. Would it not be a rare girl who has been sold but once? One is then concerned less with the fact that one is sold, for one knows one is a slave, than the quality of the market, the category in which one is sold, say, a pot girl or a pleasure slave, the price one may bring, particularly in comparison with that of others, and, of course, the nature of the buyer, say, a private individual, for which one hopes, or a farm, a business, a municipality, or such. Sometimes one is bought to be kept, sometimes to be resold. A girl cheaply purchased in one market may be sold in another for a handsome profit. Markets are apparently scouted and information conveyed and exchanged. - (Smugglers of Gor)