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| 14 | 384 | These two precautions, the prone posture and the locking gate, are View more quotes about common">common in female seraglios in the Tahari. |
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| 14 | 381 | Such indignities were apparently not to be inflicted upon her. |
| 14 | 382 | Too, had not Ibn Saran said that she had her own quarters? More common slaves, but slaves higher than those kept in the lower depths of the kasbah, are usually kept in the general slave quarters, and are often entered into their alcoves, which are reached through the walls of the slave quarters. |
| 14 | 383 | In the alcove the girl is commanded to her stomach, head to the back wall, and the small, square gate is locked behind her. |
| 14 | 384 | These two precautions, the prone posture and the locking gate, are common in female seraglios in the Tahari. |
| 14 | 385 | When the girl lies on her stomach, her head to the rear wall, she cannot prevent the door from locking behind her. |
| 14 | 386 | That the alcoves lock, as well as the doors to the general area, provides the masters with useful options, putting the girls more at their mercy. |
| 14 | 387 | Sometimes, for one reason or another, it is useful to separate or isolate given girls; too, it common to secure slaves at night, and the alcove makes this a simple matter; a single guard, with a lamp, can check a hundred girls in a few Ehn; too, if one is not in her place, it is easy to know instantly which one is missing; too, the simple fact of being secured, at the pleasure of men, in whatever way, helps to impress upon slaves their helplessness, and their bondage. |