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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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9	12	The Gorean woman, for reasons that are not altogether clear to me, considering the culture, rejoices in being a woman.	10
33	114	The Initiates had their way of life, their ancient traditions, their given livelihood, the prestige of their caste, which they claimed to be the highest on the planet, their teachings, their holy books, their services, their role to play in the culture.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	132	He was used to girls whose culture had prepared them for the very real possibility of slavery, though perhaps not a slavery as abject as that of being a wench of Tuchuks.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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11	326	Moreover, the Gorean culture tends, for better or worse, to be male oriented and male dominated, and in such a culture men naturally look on women much differently than they do in a consumer-oriented, woman-dominated culture, one informed by an ethos of substantially feminine values; the women then,...	10
19	146	Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	286	Sullius Maximus, who himself dabbled in poetry, and poisons, was a man of high culture, and his opinions in such matters were greatly respected.	10

Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	302	It is their culture.	10
7	305	The Gorean culture does not deny nature but accepts it, acclaims it, relishes it, and enhances it.	10
11	317	The entire culture puts her at his feet.	10
11	323	The only thing I failed to take into my calculations was that the Gorean male, whether by culture or genetic endowment, is unlike the typical man of Earth.	10
13	1020	Gorean slave girls, statistically, despite their vulnerability, their helplessness, and the degradation in which their culture holds them, seem to be the happiest of women, radiant and liberated, certainly muchly different from their frustrated, petulant sisters of Earth, alienated from the biotruth...	10
14	433	Most Gorean free women, if they are not companioned, given the constraints of the culture and its customs, are virgins.	10
14	444	Others, with a psychological subtlety perhaps surprising in a primitive culture, recognize that a girl may covet the collar, and will thus court it, for example, walking at night on high bridges, frequenting certain areas of the city after dark, taking unnecessary journeys, and such.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	749	Gorean culture, of course, differs greatly from Earth culture.	10
22	695	Further, of course, if a girl should be enslaved, her slavery is supported by the entire Gorean culture.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	420	This is completely clear in their fantasies; Earth culture, of course, gives little scope to these blood needs of the beauties of our race; accordingly, these needs, frustrated, tend to express themselves in neurosis, hysteria and hostility.	10
10	102	This is a consequence of Gor's simpler culture, in which there is literally less to do, less to clean, less to care for, and so on, and also of the fact that the Gorean master, if pleased with the wench, takes care that she is fresh and ready for the couch.	10

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	385	On Gor, sooner or later, she would be forced to face this fact; she would be forced to look deeply within herself; to confront herself, perhaps for the first time, with candor, and uncompromising honesty; I wondered if, at that time, seeing herself, truly, she would go mad, or if, boldly, with joy, ...	10
5	780	She would now pay the penalties, and well, exacted of her beauty by the powerful men of a primitive culture.	10
5	793	What if she had gone to Earth? I thought of her briefly amidst the hypocrisies and pollutions of Earth, on the pavements, reflected in the shop windows, in miniskirts or tailored suits, seeming a woman and yet in that raging, mechanistic, politically pathological culture, brought about by the organi...	10
10	378	One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...	10
13	431	On Gor, they have at last the opportunity to meet men of a sort they had only dreamed of before, in furtive, secret dreams, dreams which thrilled and frightened them, virile, uncompromising, powerful men, masters of women, men before whom they could only find themselves slaves, and they find themsel...	10
24	417	"They would regard you, and the sick culture that has spawned you, as barbarian," I said.	10
24	457	Is it not enough to own and master, and have the whole slave of her? I think the culture makes them that way, that it twists them from the power and force, and the magnificence, of the mastery to smaller, more petty, less worthy concerns, and that they seek lamentable, misdirected vengeance on innoc...	10
24	465	They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...	10
24	471	It is in their culture".	10
26	412	Such things tend to be important in their culture.	10

Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	592	In part it is doubtless a matter of a plainer, simpler diet, containing less sugar; in part, I suspect, the culture, too, may have a role to play, as it is a culture in which undue chemical stress, through guilt and worry, is not placed on the system either in the prepubertal or pubertal years.	10
20	582	Did I want truly to be a slave? How could that be? To have no choice but to obey, and serve! Surely that could not be true! I must not let it be true! I must not let it be true! And then I felt, rising within me, the feelings of Earth, so insidious, grievous and ugly, the reflexes, emotions and resp...	10
2	44	In my particular Earth culture, this circle of inviolate, privately owned space had a radius of some two to three feet.	10
2	45	Closer than this we did not, commonly, in my culture, approach one another.	10
2	587	I suppose this is a small thing, but I did not know their culture.	10
2	593	Gorean youth, like the youth of Earth, encounter their difficulties in growing up but the culture, or cultures, have not seen fit to implicitly condition them into regarding the inevitable effects of maturation as either suspect, deplorable or insidious.	10
3	80	I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come to be politica...	10
4	948	I have wondered sometimes if free women on Gor might not be happier if their culture permitted them to be somewhat more like the slave girls they so heartily despise.	10
4	950	Would it make so much difference? But the bonds of culture are strong.	10
5	32	On the whole, however, Gorean culture prescribes the veil for free women.	10
5	514	Doubtless much depends upon context and is relative to the culture.	10
9	1085	Indeed, good taste and aesthetic sense, abundantly and amply displayed, harmoniously manifested, in such areas as language, architecture, dress, culture and customs, seem innately Gorean.	10
22	361	In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a...	10
29	237	Uncollared I had been a true slave, a prisoner of a pathological culture, ascetic, mechanistic and twisted.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	423	She, no longer free, now embonded, is no longer regarded in the same way by the entire culture.	10
3	520	She and the last two girls would have been extremely similarly attired; they all wore, or had worn, the male-imitation uniform which I gathered must be popular among such girls, girls apparently striving to copy a masculinity which hormonally and anatomically would be forever denied to them; better ...	10
9	220	Gorean culture tends to view the body, its development, its appetites and needs, with congeniality.	10
10	94	Gifts are important in the culture of the men of the polar basin.	10
12	270	In a culture where the gracious exchange of mates is commonly practiced this device, a civilized courtesy, provides the husband's friends with information that may be pertinent to the timing of their visits.	10
12	271	This culture signal, incidentally, is not applicable to a man's slaves in the north.	10
21	36	It was, after all, the culture of the red hunters.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	53	Culture decides what is truth, but truth, unfortunately for culture, is unaware of this.	10
1	55	Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question.	10
2	37	Their own culture, perhaps because of the limitations imposed on it by Priest-Kings, who did not wish to be threatened or destroyed by an animal with which they shared a world, had taken different turnings.	10
6	502	Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...	10
14	540	She came from a culture which requires a significant distance, usually a yard or more, between male speakers and as much, or more, between speakers of the opposite sex.	10
32	764	'Yes, Master! I was a slave before!' 'You understand that now?' 'Yes, Master!' 'But the men of your culture did not enslave you, did they?' 'No, Master!' I wept.	10
32	1012	"Yet if one of them should so much as question the renunciatory and negativistic values with which his brain has been imprinted he will be immediately assailed by the marshaled forces of an establishment jealously presiding over the dissolution of its own culture.	10
32	1031	Perhaps the culture is different.	10
34	660	The values in a culture are the values of certain men.	10
34	661	Many people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe.	10

Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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32	333	Such things can differ, from culture to culture.	10
2	70	"No," she said, "no!" "Your culture has provided little scope for the satisfaction and fulfillment of your slave needs," he said.	10
2	316	What then could be biological manhood, in the fullness of its rationality and strength? I had, already, begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretension, as I had been taught, but something selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realit...	10
3	370	It is interesting, the grotesque shapes into which culture can shape a tortured biology".	10
3	380	You were the slave of a culture, of values, of propaganda and women.	10
7	458	Important, too, one supposes, is the acceptance, even approval, of this modality by the environing culture or society.	10
32	133	But so much, I suppose, would be obvious to any woman, of any culture.	10
34	167	The culture of Earth has not prepared its women to understand how delicious, vital, beautiful, desirable and exciting their sex can be.	10

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

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4	504	I suppose this might be difficult for some to understand how this could be, but then, one supposes, their culture is other than the Gorean culture.	10
1	347	The intelligent woman, of course, now put to her knees, quickly grasps what she now is, and what is expected of her; she now realizes that she is now, presumably for the first time in her life, in the presence of masters, authentic masters of women; she is well aware of the collar on her neck, and i...	10
4	114	On the other hand veiling is a not impractical modesty in a culture in which capture, and the chain and the whip are not unknown.	10
4	507	One thing seems clear to me, which is that the Gorean culture, for all its perils and occasional cruelties, is much closer to nature than certain other cultures.	10
4	508	Those who do not fear nature will perhaps best understand the Gorean culture, and its viability, stability, and fulfilling aspects.	10
11	402	I knew at least one culture in which this obvious, biological truism would count as political heresy, to be punished by ostracism, slander and, when possible, by economic penalties.	10
11	403	What a tragic world and culture that was.	10
11	549	"Do you wish her to be herself," she asked, "or to conform to some alien image which your culture has devised for her?" I did not speak.	10
21	26	She thrives in the culture.	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	308	Beyond this, of course, the culture itself, for all its possible defects and faults, is one which has been constructed to be congenial to the natural biological order, and neither antithetical to, nor contradictory of it.	10
8	309	The culture has not suppressed the biotruths of human nature but found a place for them.	10
8	310	The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, ennobling her and exalting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half-starved and chained.	10
8	322	Translated to Gor, encountering true men in large numbers, in overwhelming numbers, so different from the crippled males of Earth, finding themselves in an exotic environment, and participating in a culture markedly different from their own, and in many respects both fearful and beautiful, and found...	10
19	961	She might end up as a kettle-and-mat girl or a mere serving slave for women her arid, linear, mechanistic culture has led her to believe are less attractive than she.	10
20	1419	But how helpless is a woman once slave fires have been ignited in her belly! She has such a rich radiance of pervasive sexuality in her body, so many nerves, so many excitable tissues, that perhaps it is just as well that the women of Earth are seldom apprised of, or even aware of, their sexual dorm...	10

Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

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1	798	Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk.	10
8	1033	Her apparent culture, gentility and refinement had doubtless ill prepared her for Gor.	10
8	1037	And here, doubtless to her astonishment and consternation she found herself being positioned and displayed before such men, all veneers of culture and politesse put aside, not a thread of indulgent shielding permitted her, far even from the recollection of courtliness, remote from every hypocrisy, p...	10
11	246	Refusals, dawdlings, reluctances, excuses, games, inhibitions, fencings, teasings, manipulations, bargainings, judgments, considerations, ponderings, coynesses, were no longer theirs to employ, either to attain their own ends, commercial or psychological, or to fulfill the requirements of a patholog...	10
13	878	The less intelligent woman is likely to be so much a victim of her culture that she may fight coming to grips with her basic biotruths for weeks.	10
13	1060	She may, of course, rationally, fear the consequences of her responsiveness being discovered, thus increasing, perhaps to her terror, in a slave culture, her desirability.	10
14	653	His culture has not been designed to deny nature, but, startlingly perhaps, to some minds, to fulfill it.	10

Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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7	502	The performance of even tasks which may be "sex-neutral," tasks that do not seem to have an obvious biological rationale with respect to gender, tends to be divided, in culture after culture, on a sexual basis.	10
7	509	Unisex, not taken for granted as an aspect of a pathological culture, but understood, in depth, could be of interest, it seems, only to somewhat short-sighted or unusual organisms.	10
12	714	In the Tahari culture the submission mat has its place.	10
14	166	As would be expected, their tiny, pathological culture, implicitly or explicitly, to one degree or another, is opposed to sexuality.	10
14	411	"They may be only trying to fulfill the stereotypes of their culture".	10
37	262	Its relative scarcity, presumably, is a function not of repression, which does not exist, but of neglect or disinterest, a function of the nature, and naturalness, of the Gorean milieu, the innocent, unabashed complexion and constitution of its culture, its sensual and biological openness, frankness...	10
47	527	How light and lovely, and honest, is the steel of slave bracelets, confining the beauty's hands behind her back, baring her ready, enflamed loveliness unimpeded to the view, and to the kisses and caresses, of a master, compared to the opprobrious, dismal weight of a negativistic culture's concealed,...	10

Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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1	323	What right had he to exist in my culture? I wondered if once, long ago, men had been as he.	10
2	327	I supposed there might be a culture, or cultures, in which one, or at least one such as I, drank as I was drinking, kneeling, so holding the cup.	10
2	468	I suspected he understood what we need, and want, but then I was frightened, for I also understood that his relationship to a woman then, and that of others like him, would be quite different from that prescribed by the conventions of my culture.	10
2	469	My culture had not prepared me for such men.	10
2	474	I was then again a simple, typical, naive young female of my culture, shaken, confused, and terrified, not understanding what was being done to her, or why, and fearing a looming, unfamiliar future, to which she might be destined, one doubtless quite other than those which she might have otherwise p...	10
3	693	How far this place seemed to me from the culture with which I was familiar, and yet how close was this place to my dreams.	10
3	881	I then realized, even more profoundly than before, how deeply sexuality must characterize and penetrate this culture.	10
3	883	What a significant and real thing it is in this culture to be a man or a woman.	10
26	234	In mentioning these things, one might also call to mind an aspect of these matters which is cultural to the Goreans, but is likely to overlooked by those not familiar with their culture.	10
26	247	And even free women are well aware of these virile sports, and understand that in a very serious sense their culture understands them as females, and thus as prizes.	10
29	110	I had been a free woman, on Earth, tutored in the false myths of my culture.	10
36	427	Does he not find himself most male, most fulfilled, when having absolute power over a woman, when owning her, fully, when being her master? What man, honestly, does not want a beautiful slave? Are their fantasies so different from ours? He is dominant by nature, even if by a pathological culture he ...	10
36	1360	Too, I suppose, the collar gives a woman a sense of security as well as of merit, rather, perhaps, as a ring might in a different culture.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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1	35	These fairs, and others like them, play an important role in the Gorean culture and economy.	10
6	544	In the Gorean culture, of course, this sort of thing is very significant.	10
10	196	Up to now, of course, as a free woman, given her conditioning and what was expected of her in her culture, she had undoubtedly, possibly even agonizingly, resisted her sexuality, fighting to control and suppress her slave drives.	10

Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25	973	A culture which fulfills the machine and not man is a culture in which man is alienated, a culture in which he is not himself but essentially an appendage to industry and technology, an emigrant from himself, a foreigner on the soil of his own soul.	10
25	968	The culture with which she had been familiar was, at that time unbeknownst to her, for lack of a contrast or alternative, a gray, arid, unnatural, mechanistic culture.	10
5	451	She is marked, and collared, and slave clad, in a culture which not only accepts and supports her bondage, but approves of it, and, indeed, celebrates it.	10
20	44	In such places were to be found the rare, precious habitats of culture, the astonishing, moving delights of art and music, the truths of theater and literature, the glories and allegories of architecture, bespeaking the meanings of peoples, man-made symbols like mountain ranges; in them, too, were t...	10
20	99	Yes, I thought, it is all there, the habitats of culture, the intricate poetries of stone, the incredible places where, their heads among clouds, common bricks have been taught to speak and sing, the meanings uttered scarcely understood by those who walk amongst them; yes, it is all there, in them, ...	10
24	94	The culture is perhaps different from one with which you might be more familiar.	10
24	95	It is a culture more at ease with itself, one less frenetic, one whose sense of time is more indexed to the sun and seasons than the periodic movements of mechanical devices, one with more in common with grass and flowers, and the grazings of animals, and the combing of a girl's hair, than with poll...	10
25	352	One of the glories of the Gorean culture is that it has a body of law, sanctioned by tradition and mercilessly enforced, pertaining, without evasion or subterfuge, to this relationship.	10
25	356	For example, many women on Earth who are implicitly taught by their culture, for example, through pictures and accounts, that they do not fulfill culturally approved stereotypes of feminine desirability and beauty, might discover, presumably to their horror, that they would bring a high price in a G...	10
25	971	Such a culture has its trajectories and its internal dynamics which must be played out, until it collapses from its own alien meaninglessness, succumbing to the rebellions of a denied biology, or worse, to the rebellions of an outraged irrationality, of mindless superstition, of subversion, corrupti...	10
25	1007	There was no reason as far as I could tell that the men of Gor, if acculturated similarly to those of Earth, if subjected to the same debilitating indoctrinations, the same negativistic educations, the same unnatural engineerings, the same calculated underminings of manhood, the same inconsistent co...	10

Book 22. (20 results) Dancer of Gor

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1	8	Yes I struggled, in accord with the demands of my culture, my training and education, these things telling me how I must be, how I must be as I was told to be, to drive them from me.	10
3	284	In my culture men could not enter the ladies' room.	10
5	232	This undoubtedly had something to do with the sexual tastes of such men, seeming to run more toward the normal, natural female than toward the current commercial paradigms of feminine beauty in my culture, but I think, too, I was pretty, really pretty, genuinely pretty, and very desirable to them, a...	10
6	201	It told me something, I supposed, about the culture.	10
6	202	It was a culture in which there was apparently a call for such articles.	10
6	203	It was a culture in which they had their role, and utilities.	10
6	336	I had considered earlier how they were made for women, and that this seemed significant in this culture.	10
6	337	In this culture it seemed that slavery, bondage such as mine, at least, was an essential ingredient, that it was unquestioned, or, if it had been questioned, that the questions had been resolved long ago, and in favor of the collar, that it was a matter of tradition, perhaps a tradition of thousands...	10
6	338	Too, in this culture, where there were such men, I did not think there was any real danger of susceptibility to the debilitating, antibiological pathologies of Earth.	10
6	340	In this culture, at least, women such as I had nothing to fear, having everything to fear.	10
10	178	Their culture does not try to control them by setting them against themselves when they are too young to understand what is being done to them, in some cases, by half tearing them apart.	10
10	534	Such movements are probably indexed, like physical distances between individuals, to the culture.	10
10	535	In Gorean culture, generally, it seemed to me that people stood closer to one another than I was accustomed to on Earth.	10
10	547	The kneeling position, thus, interestingly, can occasionally provide a measure of security, if a somewhat tenuous one, for the slave, tending to reduce to some extent the frequency with which, in a culture with such interpersonal proximities, she might otherwise be subjected to unauthorized rape.	10
11	293	Slave wine makes sense in a slave-holding culture, such as Gor.	10
13	460	I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b...	10
13	839	These noises are to be distinguished from conventionalized exclamations, which do tend to be culture bound.	10
22	77	I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...	10
24	664	Too, given the culture, her marking, the closely knit nature of the society, and such, there was, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl.	10
29	1564	I think they, even Gorean girls, in a culture where the knife and sword were familiar, common weapons, had never seen anything like this.	10

Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	416	, which in one culture might be achieved by such garb is often, on Gor, achieved by the absence, or near absence, of clothing.	10
9	214	The law, the culture, and such, are not set up to permit it.	10
21	74	And it thrills her to know that he will have it this way, as well, by every element in his upbringing and culture, for she is a slave, and that laxities or failures on her part will not be tolerated.	10
21	949	The major reason, however, in my view, is that the Earth female, raised in a pathological, neuteristic culture, one in which they are taught to fear, suspect and reject their most basic sexual urges, and their genetically coded depth female nature, find in the natural world of Gor a wondrous blossom...	10
21	1082	Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a...	10
21	1245	Perhaps they will seem strange, even incomprehensible, to readers unfamiliar with certain aspects of the culture in question.	10
24	696	But then, later, as her Gorean sisters have already, from their culture, she will come to understand the significances of such things.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19	129	This is to be expected in a culture in which female slaves are numerous and the capture and mastery of women is a commonplace.	10
19	138	This form of play, of course, has its more serious purpose, as well, given the culture.	10
19	1252	This being the case, it would doubtless come as a revelation to a male of Earth to learn that women need not be that way, and that they are that way largely because they have been made that way, by a culture so designed as to bring about these estimable dignities or lamentable pathologies.	10
28	99	"With all due respect," I said, "there are a few other cities and towns on this planet, and some of them hold their own culture in higher esteem than that of Ar".	10
45	112	In the end, of course, they blend into the culture, as suggested, and, eventually, for most practical purposes, become indistinguishable from other slaves, they, as the others, all muchly concerned to be pleasing to their masters.	10

Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

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2	257	Not only were they in his culture but he probably, as he was of the Marcelliani, which had been a prominent, wealthy family in Ar's Station, would have had them in his house, in growing up, the use of some perhaps being accorded to him after puberty.	10
2	375	For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with ...	10
3	695	If their culture was correct, or judicious, why did it contain so much unhappiness and pain? In a body, pain is an indication that something is wrong.	10
3	696	So, too, it is in a culture.	10
8	942	Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ...	10
9	705	In bondage, they find an identity, and a meaning in life, and they learn that they are now such as to fulfill an exciting and important role in a beautiful culture.	10
12	45	The Gorean culture, as its unspoiled world, is robust and salubrious.	10
12	105	The Gorean culture is so open and sexually fulfilling that females, at least slaves, are almost invariably looked upon not with hostility but with great pleasure and interest, as loot, as properties, as prizes and treasures, as something to be mastered, to be owned, to be relished and ravished, not ...	10
17	33	Given his culture and background, his values, he is often easier to impose upon than would be many others.	10
17	230	On the other hand he did come from a culture which on the whole maintained a quite open mind on questions of this sort, and these illusions were, I take it, the first he had ever seen.	10
19	831	Their utilization is taken for granted in the Gorean culture.	10
21	321	At this point I interject a point which may be of interest to some, perhaps as affording some additional light on Gorean culture.	10
22	437	This, I would suppose, is the result of their having imbibed, foolishly, but naturally enough from a strange environing, mechanistic, conformity-demanding culture, peculiar concepts of female beauty, promulgated largely perhaps by unusual men, which very few natural women could manifest or fulfill.	10
24	139	That is made clear to her by her culture.	10
24	174	Contrariwise, I suppose it is reasonably clear why, given the nature of the culture, and the societal actuality of the contrast between free and slave, the status of the free woman on Gor is so high, so meaningful.	10
27	906	"Perhaps that is because their culture has given them little familiarity with slaves," I said.	10

Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	182	I am not in my own culture, I thought.	10
4	183	This is not my culture, I thought.	10
4	184	This is a different culture.	10
4	185	This may be a quite different culture.	10
4	194	The culture here, though quite different from my own, I thought, seems all of a piece.	10
6	189	But my body, you see, would be all wrong for my own culture.	10
6	199	But here I found, in this culture, that the standard of beauty is set by what women really are, in the helplessness of their hormonal richness, rather than, for some reason, the way boys often are, in their adolescence, before they achieve the girth and strength of their manhood.	10
6	212	But it is nice to find out that one is such that, in a given culture, one is regarded as beautiful.	10
6	213	Too, I think the culture is more normal than that from which I was extracted, as it seems that beauty might most plausibly be found within the normal parameters of womanhood, rather than, say, at its fringes.	10
8	591	I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis...	10
8	626	I wondered, too, what they might look like, clad not in the enclosed, hampering, eccentric garments prescribed for them by their culture, but in freer, more natural garb, such as tunics, and, as I had sometimes seen in the house, robes, and cloaks, of various sorts, things which might, in a moment, ...	10
10	505	How convenient all this is for them! Are the goods not, so to speak, publicly displayed? What sort of culture, I wondered, allows its women to be so exhibited, to be displayed so brazenly, so publicly and conveniently, for the inspection of men? And what of the women? Have they, in their haughty dis...	10
11	1348	In this fashion it is not only the case that kajirae within the same house are likely to find themselves in rivalry, but that in the culture as a whole, wherever we are, on whatever chain, fastened to whatever wall, running whatever errand, heeling whatever masters, we tend to have a sense of such t...	10
13	215	The intelligent woman often knows what she is missing and what she wants, whereas the less intelligent woman is often little more than the troubled, unwitting victim of the prescriptions and pathologies of a negativistic culture within which she is, unbeknownst to herself, imprisoned.	10
14	1324	Perhaps, given their culture, in which are secured their natural rights, those of manhood and the mastery, they can afford to be whole men here, not cultural or political half-men, of one sort or another.	10

Book 27. (31 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	323	"I am more delicate, more sensitive, finer! Your culture is primitive, a culture in which such a thing as the beating of a slave may be accepted, but I am not of that culture.	10
9	91	How strange it is, she thought, to be fully clothed, according to one's culture, so decorously, even primly, and yet, here, in a different culture, in an identical garmenture, being presented, being put on view, to feel so exposed, to feel oneself an eccentric object of curiosity.	10
2	82	She insisted on the importance of social artifacts, for example that men and women were not natural beings, but mere social artifacts, the manufactured products of culture and conditioning, that that was all.	10
4	310	"On such a world what do you conjecture would be the nature of human culture?" he inquired.	10
6	66	They did not, incidentally, explain to her one aspect of the social structure, or perhaps better, of the culture, in which she would have been almost certain to have taken a great interest, that condition, or status, which was irremediably hers on this world, that category, so to speak, to which she...	10
8	108	Is he so weak? But then she realized that these were merely the automatistic, defensive, frightened, programmed responses, the mindless, inculcated reflexes, of her culture's conditioning program, with its reductive, leveling, negativistic agenda, the outcome of centuries of resentment, denial, hatr...	10
9	88	And she was in a very different culture, one with different laws, customs, and values.	10
11	238	The Gorean culture, with its penchant for naturalness and beauty, and with skills doubtless honed in slave houses over generations, had learned well how to dress and adorn its lovely chattels, so natural, and essential, and beautiful a part of its rich and complex world.	10
11	566	Theirs is not a clock-ridden culture; on Gor life tends to be genially paced, regulated more by the season of the year and the position of the sun; it is not conceived of in terms of metaphors drawn from factories, in material terms, in terms of input and output, in terms of units of product process...	10
12	343	To be sure, already on Gor, perhaps because of the air, or the water, or the simple, decent, nourishing food, or perhaps, primarily, because of the simple differences in this world, so fresh, natural and innocent, the immersion in a different culture, so very different from her own, with its differe...	10
16	595	To be sure, she might be transiently sensitive to its exposure in a given context, as in the presence of a contemptuous free woman, or perhaps before magistrates, and officials, but that was only to be expected in this culture, with its particular views.	10
16	597	And there was, of course, another serious thread in the Gorean culture, that which required the display and exposure of the slave.	10
16	600	And how thrilled she was that she was choiceless in this matter! "You are owned, slave girl," the culture might say.	10
16	861	Do with me as you will, my Master!" Both find themselves within a culture's glorious enhancement of, and celebration of, nature's primordial determinations.	10
17	28	Physiology has dictated capacity; beyond this the differences will be those of culture and environment.	10
17	29	There is little doubt that the average Gorean woman is raised in a culture which is much more open, much freer and much more acceptive of sexuality.	10
17	729	He belongs to his culture, and not to himself, rather like the insect to the nest, the bee to the swarm.	10
20	318	This culture understands, and respects, slavery.	10
24	758	It is not unusual for a master to speak of numerous matters with his female slave, politics, culture, music, history, philosophy, and such, almost as though she might be his equal, though she is likely to be kneeling before him, naked, and back-braceleted.	10
25	1116	Her culture would not have prepared her for it.	10
25	1122	She, at least, from her culture, has some understanding of what it is to be a slave.	10
26	319	Gorean free women, incidentally, will seldom encircle their throats with jewelry of any sort, even in the privacy of their quarters, I suspect, as such things in their culture, speak to them of bondage.	10
26	329	It is my hope that some attention to these cultural matters may be found illuminating, and add, in their way, to your deeper understanding of this narrative, and, certainly, of the Gorean culture.	10
26	330	It may be a culture quite different from that with which you are likely to be familiar.	10
26	331	Yet, I am sure it has affinities with your culture, and, in an obscure way, perhaps biologically, it may lie ingredient within your own.	10
26	332	It is, in any event, a human culture, and thus it cannot be utterly alien to you.	10
26	808	The culture of Gor was not devised to deny nature but to fulfill her.	10
26	1311	In the Gorean culture this is extremely important.	10
27	1280	Culture prescribes certain aptnesses.	10
29	319	"That is a different culture from yours.	10
29	325	They are inappropriate for me! Your culture is barbaric.	10

Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	380	A hundred transparent, inhibitory wrappings swathed her about, constricting her; a culture's tendrils and trammels had been tightened about her; she had been shaped by frowns, images, propounded exemplars, small remarks, sneers, customs, and scoldings for years, subtly taught, by a multitude of cult...	10
1	541	It would seem absurd to lash them for such ignorances as their culture has not prepared them to perform such tasks.	10
1	623	She was an individual, then, of staid culture, tedious civility, tiresome refinement, and an insufferable, snobbish gentility.	10
27	170	"That is merely the absurdity of your former culture speaking.	10
27	173	"In your former culture," said Cabot, "only males were thought to have value, really, and thus the female was supposed to become a pretend male, with male properties and virtues, a counterfeit male, a facsimile male, and so arose all the nonsense of identity, a farce transparent even to children, bu...	10
36	117	Her femaleness in such a culture is not incidental to what she is.	10
36	118	In such a culture it is not the unimportant empirical contingency, the biological irrelevancy, the meaningless anatomical fortuity, it is claimed to be in a world of anonymity and negativity, of neuterism, that of a world engineered to abet the mindless servicing of machines, technological and econo...	10
55	127	"Still, is their slavery not easier in a civilization than in a rude culture?" asked Statius.	10

Book 29. (21 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	33	Much varies from culture to culture.	10
1	262	Surely the little beast was exquisitely desirable, who could deny that, but even then the other, the dark-haired captive, the English girl, Miss Virginia Cecily Jean Pym, clearly the product of a pathological culture, inhibited, unpleasant, arrogant, nasty, with such clearly ambivalent feelings towa...	10
1	280	Had she not been so, in one way or another, in her dreams, on the smooth, scarlet tiles of a conqueror's palace, on the deep-piled rug within the tent of a desert chieftain, on the deck of a pirate's vessel? In a pathological culture, of course, many things are kept concealed, often those which are ...	10
7	27	Too, in the Gorean high culture, certain colors tend to be associated with certain castes, for example green with the Physicians, red, or scarlet, with the Warriors, yellow with the Builders, blue with the Scribes, white with the Initiates, and so on.	10
9	68	Why should she herself not have the wealth which she so ably diverted into the channels of others, an illusive wealth to whose passage she stood so near but from which she was yet so far? She seemed to me little more than an unimaginative creation of her time, a creature of ambition and egotism set ...	10
9	312	"To the culture itself," she said, "its prolongation".	10
9	314	A culture did seem to have its own dynamics, its own life, a life, a biography, to which the welfare or happiness of its components might be only indirectly related, if at all.	10
9	316	A culture, on the other hand, though it might crumble and lapse into obsolescence, was commonly not organic, but mechanistic, and the functioning of the machine required not the happiness, health, or welfare of its parts, but only that they functioned appropriately, contributing to the pointless lon...	10
10	400	Lord Nishida would surely not have in mind dances which might be indigenous to his own culture.	10
10	598	Veiling, too, given certain aspects of the relevant culture, would not be inappropriate".	10
15	211	Pertinax, of course, lacked these advantages, those of culture, background, and practice.	10
19	250	"But culture should serve one, not be served by one".	10
20	142	I supposed he would choose to project upon her an image of what he thought she should be, and, indeed, perhaps she, too, would struggle to deny her newly discovered deepest self, and conceal it behind a facade prescribed by an ugly and unnatural culture.	10
22	552	Why can you not accept her for what she is, not what you feel she should be? Are you only interested in women who have adopted, who have yielded to, who have succumbed to, the masculine values prescribed for them by an odious, inhuman, unnatural, self-alienating culture?" Pertinax regarded me angril...	10
26	22	Those familiar with the Gorean culture will find nothing anomalous in this.	10
26	27	For a slave girl herself, a chain daughter, there is no escape, given her garmenture, the collar, the brand, and the entire culture, which is arrayed to remand her into the authority of the free.	10
26	160	This plenitude of attractive, available merchandise is not, of course, unusual for a slave-holding culture, and the collar, too, is not easily come by.	10
27	142	In any event, the Earth-girl slave, having been starved of her sex on Earth, taught by a pathological, adversarial culture to fear, belittle, resent, and suspect it, discovers on Gor to her astonishment and elation that her sex is here not only of interest, but of inestimable importance and value.	10
40	62	Any culture, if it wished, could enslave its women.	10
44	34	Surely the female slave is one of the loveliest and most valuable ingredients in a high culture.	10
44	37	And how pathetic and impoverished would be a puritanical and dictatorial culture, should any exist, which would permit them no place, which would deny them their most profound fulfillments.	10

Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	96	One is not entitled to assume that a fair-skinned slave from abroard, one from a far different culture, is going to know what might be expected of her, the proper serving, for example, of sake, the appropriate temperature, and such.	10
37	1255	"You were interested in far worlds," I said, "ancient worlds, ancient to your former world, their culture, their languages, their way of life, their beliefs".	10

Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	140	What of the simple test of life consequences? Is it obvious that an unnatural culture which produces vehemence, confusion, hysteria, sickness, treachery, hypocrisy, mass murder, and hatred is obviously superior to a culture compatible with nature, and her kinds and differences, a culture in which na...	10
4	139	Did they not know the formulas? Were they unaware of the political requirements imposed on contemporary literature? Were such so obscure, or difficult to discern? What an unexpected paradox, to put aside the rules, to deny orthodoxy, to speak so plainly, so simply and quietly, and naturally, of a cu...	10
4	236	"Surely you understand how inconsistent such things are with the certain dictates and dogmas of our culture," she said, "with, say, certain principles and notions which are to be taken as beyond question or review, principles and notions which are to be accepted uncritically, mindlessly, without inq...	10
7	44	Who were others, to tell me who I was? How was this a freedom, to be told how to be? How strangely false and unsatisfying seemed the culture to which I was expected to conform, and that which I was expected to perpetuate! Was I truly an artifact, a meaningless, unhappy puppet of a dismal world, resp...	10
8	780	She was a mere barbarian, a scion of a primitive culture, and I was a civilized woman of Earth, of the upper classes, young, beautiful, educated, intelligent, sensitive, well-bred, refined, now somehow inexplicably entrapped in a barbarian world, a world where I was denied the protection of the law,...	10
10	141	I suspected that I, in my ignorance, might be as much informed as she of Gorean ways and culture.	10
10	159	Sometimes it seemed to me that I would like a weak master whom I might control, manage, and manipulate, rather as a typical female companion on my native world was accustomed, given the culture in question, to control, manage, and manipulate their male companions, rather to the unhappiness, distress...	10
10	163	I wanted to be his, his property, a helpless object, goods, possessed by him, in all the fullness of law, in all the fullness of culture, in all the fullness of nature.	10
10	799	But even more, I thought, it had to do with the culture, and the ethos, in which I found myself.	10
10	975	The Lady Bina, however, who knew little of Gorean culture, failed to detect the insult intended, and bore up well under the ordeal.	10
20	270	Marked, collared, and slave-clad, and given the culture, the best she might hope for, if she were not bound and returned to her master, would be, as a fugitive, to fall into a harsher and more grievous bondage.	10
26	203	In bondage, she comes closest to the natural woman, and farthest from an engineered product of cultural conditioning, whichever product, whichever manufactured article, it might be, given the particular culture; she becomes a more natural woman, richer, deeper, more profound, ever more real, ever mo...	10
27	244	It is a symbol of a natural relationship, the female in submission to the male, or, within the institutions of a natural civilization, within the legalities of a natural culture, the relationship of the slave to the master.	10
34	73	I supposed it was also possible that Kurii, subversives, traitors, conspirators, and such, those who might wish to conceal the nature of their activities and plans, might have less to fear from an ignorant barbarian, at a loss in an unfamiliar culture, than a native Gorean.	10

Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	142	I was something ingredient in the culture, expected in the culture, approved in the culture, and desired in the culture.	10
2	45	What she should be, and do, and think, and try to feel, was largely set before her by a culture of idiosyncratic stereotypes, the opinions she was to hold were prescribed for her, and the values she was to maintain, or pretend to maintain, brooked neither question nor deviation.	10
2	46	Every culture has its simple scions, naive and unquestioning, dogmatic without inquiring into the credentials of dogmatisms, mindlessly righteous in one of a thousand ways of being mindlessly righteous, each contradictory to the other.	10
2	80	She was extremely intelligent and, latently, despite the indoctrinations and conditionings of her unusual culture, profoundly, biologically feminine.	10
4	105	Was it, I wondered, simply that she was so unusually feminine, so clearly feminine, and this so early in her bondage, despite the culture from which she was derived? Or was it, rather, simply, that she was, and was so obviously, a slave? Much that is subtle goes into these things, much which it woul...	10
4	121	Gorean culture is built on nature, and within it, not against it, and apart from it.	10
5	210	Culture does not prescribe, in the interests of unusual minorities, alienated from their own bodies, the falsification of nature.	10
9	234	Surely the culture marks great differences between us.	10
9	242	The culture does deem it important, and free women insist upon this, that a clear distinction be drawn between the free woman and the slave.	10
13	136	Perhaps the distinction is that between culture and biology.	10
13	155	The Gorean woman may have an advantage in some ways, for she is familiar with the culture; indeed, she may have owned her own slaves, male or female.	10
14	246	There is, in effect, given the culture, nowhere to escape.	10
15	688	I did think it likely that Gorean free women, given the culture, were probably far more conscious of their position and status, of their freedom, their exalted station, and such, than those of my former world.	10
17	108	She is said to well and shamelessly exploit the eminence and authority which the culture bestows upon her.	10
17	123	Such men were scions of a culture founded on nature and its fulfillment, not its denial.	10
25	246	Is it appropriate that a culture be founded on division, and hate? Nature denied is nature poisoned.	10
46	56	She is a familiar, recognized, sanctioned, accepted, welcomed, desired, even treasured, component in the culture.	10
46	58	The culture and society wants its kajirae, and will have them.	10
49	157	"No," I said, "it is not in their culture".	10

Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	31	It was a culture with a place for both the blossom and the glaive, a culture where one might, a sword within reach, unroll a painting and, bit by bit, meditate upon its elements, where a warrior might attend sensitively to the delicacy of his calligraphy and a general might compose poetry on the eve...	10
6	251	How hideously strange and unfamiliar are the corridors of culture.	10
13	458	Tyrtaios, as I understood him, a dark realist, as careful and prudential as a knife, was not likely to be the victim of any superstition, let alone that of an alien culture.	10
19	203	We had been raised, substantially, in the same culture.	10
20	204	For those unfamiliar with the Gorean culture, it is difficult to convey the gap between the slave and the free.	10
20	465	I think she still thought of Pertinax in the terms of Gregory White, a Gregory White who, in a sense, no longer existed, at least in the terms in which she thought of him, a Gregory White who had been shy, diffident, insecure, weak, manageable, pathetic, reduced, and confused, the victim of a pathol...	10
29	359	She had not even accorded him the respect prescribed for a female with respect to a male in the Pani culture, let alone that of a supposed contract woman with respect to a free male.	10
30	29	There seemed to me many contrasts, if not paradoxes, in the Pani culture.	10
42	328	Culture was determined to banish nature, to rob men and women of their selves.	10
58	272	The teeth of several had been dyed black, which, in the eyes of some, particularly high ladies, I had learned, is accounted a beautification, a fashionable and aristocratic embellishment, an enhancement of charms, rather, I suppose, like the drug-dilated pupils of Renaissance ladies, or, depending o...	10
61	647	I suppose that it is difficult for one unfamiliar with Gorean culture to appreciate the social status of the Gorean free woman, at least in the high cities.	10
61	649	In a world where, in effect, all women are free, freedom does not mean very much, but, in a culture where not all women are free, it means a great deal.	10
61	822	Culture is involved.	10
61	1229	"A pathetic weakling," she said, "shallow, manipulable, and eager to please, the puppet of a pathological, unnatural culture, a patriot of self-betrayal, one who prides himself on treason to his own blood, the creature of what he is told, one who will not think, one who will not raise his eyes to th...	10

Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
57	67	Whereas, given the collaring, clothing, and marking of a girl, the closely knit nature of the society, the acceptance and approval of bondage in the culture, and the culture's unquestioned support of, and enforcement of, the rigors of the institution of bondage, there is no escape for the Gorean sla...	10
62	113	In any event, slaves are to be slaves, and there is an entire culture and deportment required by the collar, which culture and deportment deepens and intensifies, whether the girl wishes it or not, her sexuality.	10
1	238	What then is another culture? So what was so different about Gor? Why should I have been afraid, so unaccountably, to do something so simple as to read a certain book, or books? Surely there was nothing to fear.	10
1	298	How ashamed my culture had made so many of them to be male.	10
1	300	It was one of the small pleasures allowed to a young woman in the culture, that of intimidating and shaming men, teasing them, taunting them, torturing them, particularly those suitably acculturated, conditioned to view the most natural promptings of their blood with trepidation and remorse.	10
4	11	One needed only examine the models in the fashion magazines, watch television commercials, watch beauty pageants, attend to the standardized ideals of womanhood promoted in our culture, so much at odds with the normal, typical woman, to recognize the naivety and ignorance of our captors.	10
10	327	Escape was impossible, the culture saw to that, but, too, I realized, a thought that would once have startled me, and the truth of which I would have felt obliged to protest fiercely, I did not want to escape.	10
29	13	It would be difficult to make clear to those unfamiliar with the culture the animosity with which the slave is viewed by the free woman.	10
43	59	She knows little of Gorean culture.	10
47	37	What, then, can one expect of such a thing, entered into a complex, stratified, perilous culture? "And beautiful?" said Kurik.	10
50	329	On Gor, where, given her branding, garbing, and collaring, and the culture, there is no escape for a slave girl, they are still commonly chained, that they may the more know themselves slaves, and the property of their masters.	10
61	519	For those unfamiliar with Gorean culture, particularly that of the "High Cities," I think a note of explanation might not be without point.	10
61	528	Consider now a culture in which there is a clear, sharp, important, even momentous, distinction between the free and the not free.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	75	To be sure, I supposed that notions of female beauty might vary from one time, and one culture, to another.	10
11	205	The culture wants us as slaves, and will keep us as slaves.	10
14	33	Why not charge a native Gorean girl with such a task? She would know thousands of things I would not about this world, its culture, history, customs, and politics.	10
19	17	A natural, unapologetic, unassuming, unquestioned, taken-for-granted, powerful virility is common with Gorean males, presumably a consequence of the culture, which does not set itself, for political or social reasons, to diminish, undermine, cripple, and poison what otherwise would be a flourishing ...	10
24	37	Interestingly, there is a sort of culture of a market, and different markets have different cultures, so to speak.	10
38	68	Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.	10

Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	56	"For years I put aside my dreams and fantasies, for years I strenuously denied my most inward and profound reality, as my culture prescribed, but I always knew it, and, after your touch, I accepted it, at last, and gladly.	10
16	115	In order that what follows might be more easily grasped, let me give a brief account of certain aspects of the culture of several of the living islands, of which we may take Isle of Seleukos to be typical.	10