| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 25 |
Free women on Gor do not travel attended by only a single warrior, not of their own free will. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 31 |
I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the Free Companion. |
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| 6 | 126 |
More commendably, a free woman may herself, of her own free will, agree to be such a companion. |
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| 6 | 127 |
And it is not unusual for a master to free one of his slave girls in order that she may share the full privileges of a Free Companionship. |
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| 6 | 163 |
"You were free before," I said, "and you are free now". |
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| 8 | 13 |
Indeed, it was known that some free women actually envied their lightly clad sisters in bondage, free, though wearing a collar, to come and go much as they pleased, to feel the wind on the high bridges, the arms of a master who celebrated their beauty and claimed them as his own. |
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| 14 | 179 |
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra... |
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| 15 | 200 |
"Alas," she cried, "not even I can do that, but I can free your friends! I will free them! My freedom for theirs!" I appeared to think the matter over. |
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| 22 | 216 |
I wondered on how many nights free women, bound captives, had been thrown to his feet to be assessed and purchased, how many free women had in his camp exchanged their rich garments for a camisk and an ankle ring on his chain. |
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| 25 | 10 |
His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay. |
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| 26 | 66 |
If he does not accept her as a Free Companion—and few men of Tharna will be in a mood to extend the privileges of Free Companionship to a silver mask—he may then, without further ado, simply collar her as his slave, or if he wishes he may reject her completely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 5 |
This harsh treatment, incidentally, when she is thought to deserve it, may even be inflicted on a Free Companion, in spite of the fact that she is free and usually much loved. |
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| 26 | 277 |
The privilege of using his name, of having it on her lips, is, according to the most approved custom, reserved for that of a free woman, in particular a Free Companion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
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| 10 | 125 |
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ... |
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| 10 | 69 |
And indeed it was a free woman who cried those words, Dina, a free woman of Turia. |
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| 11 | 67 |
"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "Free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed. |
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| 25 | 197 |
When I had done so, I faced her and said, "To a free woman, one who has been strong, one who has been brave, to Elizabeth Cardwell, to a woman who is both beautiful and free". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 503 |
My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste... |
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| 13 | 14 |
The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr... |
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| 16 | 111 |
The Gorean slave girl addresses all free men as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress". |
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| 20 | 71 |
"Oh free me! Free me!" She lifted her hands to Cernus. |
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| 20 | 76 |
"Noble Cernus," she whispered, "if you be my Master, free me, free me!" "Why?" asked Cernus. |
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| 24 | 218 |
"I free you," said Marlenus, "but I free you that you may be at liberty to go where you will, and do what you wish". |
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| 24 | 500 |
The combination was devastating, tormentingly attractive, an achievement so tantalizing and astoundingly exciting that I would not be surprised if it were adopted throughout Ar by the city's free women, rebellious, proud of their bodies, at last determined to throw off centuries of restriction, of c... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 166 |
"With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar". |
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| 3 | 288 |
But a Gorean slave addresses all free men as Master, all free women as Mistress, though, of course, normally but one would own him. |
10 |
| 10 | 212 |
My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the Merchants. |
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| 10 | 276 |
Those I did not wish, for one reason or another, to free, I sold to other captains, or exchanged them for slaves whom I might free, several of whom, when freed, also agreed to serve with me. |
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| 15 | 83 |
Free Companions, on the Feast of their Free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders. |
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| 15 | 590 |
Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the Free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to be received as... |
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| 18 | 360 |
"I would free you," I said, "but I think they might kill free women, if they found them". |
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| 18 | 395 |
I had friends among other girls in the house, who were also much free, though not as free as I. |
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| 18 | 485 |
Port Kar does not recognize the Free Companionship, but there are free women in the city, who are known simply as the women of their men. |
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| 18 | 632 |
Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 91 |
The bosk, unfortunately for Targo, had either broken free or been cut free. |
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| 7 | 402 |
A Gorean slave, incidentally, always addresses free men as "Master," and all free women as "Mistress". |
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| 8 | 115 |
"In many cities a slave girl is more free to come and go, and be happy, than a free woman". |
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| 8 | 1057 |
I am Elinor Brinton, I cried to myself! She is no slave! She obeys no man! She is free! Free! The girl who had worn the black, buttoning, bare-midriff blouse, the tan slacks, who had owned the Maserati, who had had three quarters of a million dollars, who had had a penthouse, who had modeled, and tr... |
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| 8 | 1116 |
In any case, they would free me! I would be free! But I stood there on the grass, gagged, my hands bound behind my back, a choke leash on my throat, held by one of the girls. |
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| 11 | 267 |
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings". |
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| 11 | 1245 |
We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignorant free women,... |
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| 11 | 1395 |
I wanted to be free of them! I wanted to be free of them! I did not need friends. |
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| 13 | 31 |
"I am afraid!" "Do you not understand," she whispered, her eyes filled with joy, "we are free! We are free!" "But what will we do?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 995 |
Free women are never punished, but she is not a free woman. |
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| 14 | 424 |
One justification, incidentally, aside from a greater splendor of garmenture, and a greater dignity, and such, for the discrepancy between the garmenture of the free woman and the slave is that the difference is designed to lessen the dangers of predation amongst free women, and divert the acquisiti... |
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| 14 | 426 |
Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almost guaranteed t... |
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| 15 | 320 |
She was free, obviously free. |
10 |
| 15 | 901 |
Free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten. |
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| 17 | 103 |
How can a free woman even understand this? But I do not envy free women. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 40 |
Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, all free women as Mistress. |
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| 12 | 162 |
Might that one then not be the one who, in a tavern or brothel, he would order to a convenient alcove? And would it not be delightful should he discover in the alcove that the woman in his arms was none other than the former free woman, now no longer free, but now enslaved? One can well imagine how ... |
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| 20 | 76 |
"Free us!" "Free the women!" suddenly cried Sarus. |
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| 20 | 140 |
I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft. |
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| 21 | 176 |
"Let me be free to carry the tools for him as a free woman!" But I had bound her as a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 365 |
Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men... |
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| 1 | 113 |
And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former Free Companion, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and resol... |
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| 1 | 117 |
And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his Free Companion. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the... |
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| 11 | 249 |
They were free men, and free men of Gor. |
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| 18 | 20 |
I wrenched free the blade of the ax, as it slumped down, breaking it free from its jawbone and shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 126 |
When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right leg; it is common for the slave to be placed... |
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| 24 | 908 |
"Free me! Free me! There are men out there! Free me, immediately! Are you a fool? Are you a fool? I demand it! Free me, and hide me! You must! I demand it!" I decided that I would have her rebranded. |
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| 1 | 298 |
Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ... |
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| 1 | 149 |
If you were free, and Gorean, you might be permitted by men to remain as you are, but you are neither Gorean nor free. |
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| 1 | 555 |
Sometimes inert, esteemed Gorean free women cry out in rage, not understanding why their companions have forsaken them for the evening, to go to the paga tavern; there, of course, for the price of a cup of paga, he can get his hands on a silken, belled girl, a slave; the free woman must denounce her... |
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| 2 | 159 |
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ... |
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| 9 | 178 |
Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w... |
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| 14 | 98 |
The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty females; I have sometimes wond... |
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| 24 | 238 |
With you I am always free! We can be to one another only as perfect equals, free and perfect equals. |
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| 24 | 410 |
Do you not remember me, me, Elizabeth Cardwell? Was she not the perfection of a free woman? How could one be more free than she? How could she have a "master"? How could one such as I have a "master"?" "Easily," I said. |
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| 24 | 528 |
Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow commiserate wit... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 356 |
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for an animal, wo... |
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| 4 | 947 |
Afterwards, it might be mentioned, they are usually pleased with the piercing of their ears, and grow quite proud of this erotic dimension added to their beauty; not displeased are they either with the lovely adornments which their master may now order them to fix upon their body; free women, it is ... |
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| 13 | 423 |
Free women, desiring to yield, pride themselves on their capacity not to yield, to maintain their quality and integrity; slave girls, on the other hand, are not permitted such luxuries; they, whether they desire to yield or not, must yield, and totally; perhaps free women wish they did not have to b... |
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| 18 | 123 |
It was done in this manner, to satisfy the desires of the free woman; to the astonishment of all in the court, when the chained slave girl crept on her knees, head down, to render gratitude to the free woman, the free woman had knelt beside her and kissed her, and then turned away. |
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| 3 | 531 |
That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th... |
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| 3 | 783 |
The effect of the slave wine endures several cycles, or moons; it may be counteracted by another drink, a smooth, sweet beverage, which frees the girl's body for the act of the male slave, or, in unusual cases, should she be freed, to the act of the lover; slave girls, incidentally, are almost never... |
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| 4 | 188 |
Any slave girl, incidentally, addresses any free man as Master, any free woman as Mistress, though only one, of course, at a given time, is likely to be her true Master or Mistress. |
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| 4 | 504 |
It was not as though she were a free woman whose anger might have significance, might even issue in actions or words, free from the reprisals of discipline. |
10 |
| 4 | 822 |
Suppose men, suspicious, would turn me over to free women, that my body might be, without compromise to my dignity lest I be free, examined by them. |
10 |
| 4 | 951 |
On Earth a free woman would not think of having herself branded, though it might improve her beauty; similarly, on Gor, a free woman would not consider having her ears pierced. |
10 |
| 4 | 959 |
Gorean free women, no more than the free women of Earth, do not wear brands. |
10 |
| 5 | 429 |
Free men do not take it lightly that a Kajira would dare to don the garments of a free woman. |
10 |
| 5 | 560 |
"If you are free," said the captain, "you are rather pretty to be free". |
10 |
| 9 | 335 |
Had I had the choice as a free woman I would have chosen to love him; but the choice had not been mine, for I had been a slave; he had overwhelmed me, forcing me to love him, consulting not my will, before I could have chosen to do so; I who had desired to kneel before him of my own free will had be... |
10 |
| 9 | 2012 |
"I ask this free woman," said he, indicating Sandal Thong, "for whom I muchly care, to accept me in free companionship". |
10 |
| 14 | 314 |
How could she have known my plan? "You think then he will free me, and free you, for having told him this truth". |
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| 15 | 309 |
"Free me, Mistress," I begged, "free me!" "Do you truly think," she asked, "that you were brought to Gor to be freed and returned to Earth?" "I do not know why I was brought to Gor," I said. |
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| 18 | 110 |
She was free only a few hours, however, for, as an unescorted free woman, guardsmen swiftly went to her protection, prepared to help her safely home. |
10 |
| 20 | 594 |
"Free me, free me, Master!" I looked up at him, pleadingly. |
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| 22 | 69 |
Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ... |
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| 22 | 357 |
The slave is seen as a slave, and the free woman as a free woman. |
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| 24 | 81 |
The major transformation in the girl of course goes far beyond the trivialities and mechanics, the externals, so to speak, of such matters as grooming, adornment, training and such, however lovely and important they may be; it is the internal transformation which is most important, and that is wroug... |
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| 24 | 82 |
Free, she was slave; slave, she is free. |
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| 24 | 83 |
Interesting how it is, that the woman is most free when least free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 427 |
She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescriptions, requireme... |
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| 3 | 404 |
"Scandalous," said a free woman, to another free woman, who was passing near me. |
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| 3 | 470 |
She then becomes wild, and free, and sexual, and cares not that she might be scorned by the free either for her miserable condition or helpless appetites; she knows she will be what she must; she has no choice; she is slave. |
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| 6 | 663 |
"I free you! I free you!" she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 539 |
A true liberation of women might be desirable, one which would permit them to be themselves, whatever they might be, a liberation that would free a woman to be feminine rather than constrict her to the imitation of manhood, a liberation without preset images and goals, which would permit her to find... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 504 |
"We are free! Free!" cried another. |
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| 4 | 516 |
"You can't just take us! We are free! Free!" "We will call a guardsman!" cried another. |
10 |
| 24 | 138 |
"Free me! Free me!" "I did not think you spoke to commoners," he said. |
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| 33 | 121 |
No free woman, for example, would dare to place herself in such a position before Gorean free men, unless perhaps, weary of her misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar. |
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| 33 | 163 |
He tied them both on her neck and then took the free end of one and tied it to a thwart forward of her position and the free end of the other and tied it to the thwart aft of her position, thus fastening her between these two thwarts. |
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| 34 | 320 |
Free women, in being free, command attention when they speak. |
10 |
| 34 | 732 |
"In a sense you are free and in a sense you are not free," I said. |
10 |
| 34 | 796 |
A Gorean free woman does not change her name in the ceremony of the Free Companionship. |
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| 51 | 10 |
How flushed and excited was her face, how free of tension and tightness, how free of anxiety and stress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 455 |
The slave, so unfree in some senses, even to the collar, is in other senses the freest of women, free to love, free to be submitted, free to be uninhibited, wild and sexual, free to be her deepest, most secret, most fulfilling self. |
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| 16 | 230 |
"Yes," he said, "for you would still be free, and no free woman, because she is free, can truly compete for the attention and affection of a man as can a slave girl". |
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| 10 | 83 |
Free men were to me as master, as free women were to me as mistress. |
10 |
| 16 | 3 |
I, a slave, unaccompanied by a free person, would wait until free customers were waited upon and served. |
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| 17 | 184 |
If they were free, I, though a free woman, could scarcely dare conjecture my fate!" Again I struggled, and was again held helplessly and perfectly in the steel. |
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| 20 | 111 |
I pressed through people, slave and free, who pressed about me, congratulating me, many trying to touch me, even free persons. |
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| 25 | 229 |
Then the women, bond and free, fell back, crying and frightened, for all women, whether slave or free, understand the whip. |
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| 27 | 365 |
"Can you not see that I am a free woman?" "I know that you are a free woman," I said. |
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| 27 | 380 |
"Can you not simply look upon me and see that I am free?" "Perhaps if I saw you in the robes of concealment, and veiled, being carried in a palanquin through the streets of Vonda by slaves," I said, "I would think you free". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 147 |
Sometimes, incidentally, free young men wear masks and capture a free woman, taking away her clothing and forcing her to perform as a slave for them. |
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| 4 | 477 |
Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their cumbersome robes and veils, that they are ... |
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| 23 | 213 |
It was the free woman, or the woman who had been free, who had been ordered from the crowd on the wharves of Victoria. |
10 |
| 24 | 274 |
To the Gorean free woman the joys of the slave girl, though they may be despised and disparaged, are at least culturally not unknown, and are the envy of such free women. |
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| 24 | 475 |
Surely she must be a free woman! She must be free! She was from Earth! But could everything that my blood, my instincts and impulses told me be wrong? But it must be, else a civilization structured upon, and predicated upon, pathologies must disintegrate and perish. |
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| 28 | 201 |
Thus, strangely, while least free, she is most free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 527 |
Coins, and personal items, and such, are usually, by free persons, carried in pouches, which are usually concealed within the robes of a free woman, or slung about the waist, or shoulder, of a free man. |
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| 20 | 1586 |
It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not f... |
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| 20 | 1589 |
How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him ... |
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| 8 | 125 |
Incidentally the reservations held by some Gorean seamen pertaining to free women on board, also, interestingly, do not hold of free women who are captives. |
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| 18 | 418 |
She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines her head submissively as she passes free men; should they stop her, perhaps to question her, or inquire after directi... |
10 |
| 18 | 685 |
"No, my Master," she whispered, "I do not mean either merely that he induced in me the spasm submissions of the bond girl, or that he enforced upon me the fullness of the humiliating, ecstatic slave orgasms, so far beyond anything attainable by the free woman, to which any free man may subject the s... |
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| 19 | 9 |
Secondly, they were free persons, and free persons on Gor may do much what they please. |
10 |
| 19 | 118 |
Most simply she sees it as a house, and knows it, as a house in which she is a slave, whereas the free woman sees it and knows it as a house in which she is free. |
10 |
| 19 | 120 |
The free woman looks into a slave kennel but she, presumably, has never occupied it, the helpless prisoner behind its bars; the free woman may see chains but she, presumably, has never worn them; she may see the whip but she, presumably, has never felt it. |
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| 19 | 966 |
Those slavers who are natively Gorean expect arrogance and insolence from Gorean free women, who, after all, are free, but they do not find it acceptable in Earth women, whom they regard for the most part as uncollared slave stock. |
10 |
| 20 | 197 |
She must now fear free men and free women. |
10 |
| 20 | 403 |
"He intends to purchase fighting slaves," said Miles, "and then free them, and organize matches among free men. |
10 |
| 20 | 596 |
More than one free woman has been taken trying to free herself from such platforms, or has been tripped by them, or slowed, perhaps dragging one, absurdly enough, behind her, still attached to an ankle. |
10 |
| 20 | 600 |
Sometimes a free woman, the platforms discarded, will lift her ornate robes to the thigh, to free her legs to run. |
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| 20 | 634 |
One interesting difference between the Gorean free woman and the Earth woman is that the Gorean free woman is well aware of slavery and knows that it exists. |
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| 20 | 1815 |
Who would not want one or more? How is she then, this readily available, branded, collared slut, this animal, so very different from a free woman, to be viewed? She, the Gorean male feels, and the Gorean free woman surely agrees, is appropriately to be regarded as substantially beneath contempt, ess... |
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| 20 | 2136 |
Free, she is enslaved, the prisoner of inhibitions, artifices and conventions; enslaved, she is free, liberated to the self-fulfillment of her deepest nature. |
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| 20 | 2137 |
Free, she is enslaved; enslaved, she is free. |
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| 20 | 2153 |
The passions of the female slave are a mystery to many free women who, unaroused and sexually inert, never collared and owned, cannot even understand them; to most free women, of course, the passions of the female slave are not so much a mystery as a source of envy and fury; she senses that they, de... |
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| 20 | 2154 |
Sometimes, perhaps, twisting on her couch at night in frustration, the free woman may dimly sense what it is to be an aroused slave, a woman so much at the mercy of men, and so precious and beautiful to them; the free woman clenches her fists and moans; the slave may throw herself to the feet of men... |
10 |
| 21 | 408 |
Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho... |
10 |
| 21 | 468 |
"To other girls in bondage, to free men, to free women, to male slaves, should you encounter them, to all, that is how you will be known, simply as 'Beverly'," I said. |
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| 21 | 504 |
It would be a very foolish slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before free men. |
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| 21 | 508 |
What could a man see of interest, the free woman might ask herself, in such a frightened, confused, groveling drab? But, of course, too, the free woman is well aware of the appearance and demeanor of the slave when she is not accosted by them, or brought within the immediate ambit of their power. |
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| 21 | 514 |
None are likely to object to this, as the free woman is free, and may do much what she wishes, and the slave is only a slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 515 |
Perhaps she jostled the free woman in a crowd or met her eyes, as though she might have been free. |
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| 21 | 545 |
Too, she will be regarded with repulsion and horror by scandalized free women, with amusement by men, slave or free, who enjoy inspecting and appraising her publicly exhibited lineaments, and with contempt, as a worthless girl, by her sisters in bondage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 265 |
This is quite different from the mental set taken by the free woman to the furs, of course, with attendant deleterious consequences for the free woman, in so far as any woman could be called free who is not surrendered and owned. |
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| 13 | 1071 |
"You see," I said, "you were still regarding yourself, implicitly, at least at the moment, as a free woman, or, perhaps better, more narrowly, as retaining at least one of the rights of a free woman". |
10 |
| 13 | 1300 |
"All free men are my masters," she said, "as all free women are my mistresses". |
10 |
| 17 | 300 |
I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held before me by one man, the other ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 100 |
This is more seldom the case with Gorean free women than with the free women of Earth, but it is certainly not unknown amongst Gorean free women. |
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| 37 | 259 |
Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the... |
10 |
| 1 | 254 |
It has been my considered judgment that Canka, in doing this, had hoped to draw attention to the location, that he hoped by this device to attract others to the spot, who might free the lad, or perhaps to mark it for himself, that he might later, accepting exile and outlawry at the hands of the Isbu... |
10 |
| 16 | 124 |
Enslaved, you are free, interestingly and paradoxically, to be free". |
10 |
| 23 | 30 |
Whereas a free woman may often make a man angry with impunity, she being lofty and free, this latitude is seldom extended to the slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 31 |
For an instant I could not free it of the press of the animals and then I wrenched it free. |
10 |
| 28 | 105 |
Free women sometimes buy hair for wigs or falls, and, although the hair they purchase is always certified as coming only from free women, there is little doubt that it is often taken from female slaves. |
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| 28 | 122 |
Some Goreans think of the Free Companionship as being a form of contract slavery; this is not, of course, precisely correct; on the other hand, if more women took that definition seriously, I have little doubt but what free companionships would be far more rewarding than they now are, for many coupl... |
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| 29 | 4 |
The hair that bound them hung free before the wrists, dangling from them, in jagged strands, marking where it had been hastily cut free from the hair of the girl before her in a holding coffle. |
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| 33 | 203 |
Also, you being a slave, too, perhaps you have been denied the use of women or deprived of their caresses, or perhaps, not being free, you have not been permitted to use them with the same liberal audacity as a free man, or as frequently as you might desire. |
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| 37 | 260 |
It might also be mentioned, however, that there is a market for handsome male slaves which caters to rich free women, and, to a lesser extent, to rich free men. |
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| 39 | 214 |
"If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave"... |
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| 43 | 348 |
I wondered if Iwoso had speculated on why their heads had been left uncovered, or why we had not enclosed one girl completely and left the head of the other free, why we had treated the slave and the free woman identically. |
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| 43 | 356 |
This kind of difference in binding, or shackling, in which the free woman wears easier or more comfortable bonds than the slave, is in deference to the status of the free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 464 |
Was it then because I was free? Were Gorean men spoiled for free women by those collared, curvaceous little sluts they had crawling about their feet, desperately eager to please them? Given such luscious alternatives it was natural enough, I supposed, that men would see little point in subjecting th... |
10 |
| 8 | 535 |
"I am free," I cried to myself, "I am free! Free!" But I was half naked and my hands were braceleted behind me. |
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| 24 | 167 |
A consequence of this ordinance from the point of view of a female slave is that she cannot now even permit herself to be taken for a free woman by accident; her bondage is always manifest; it is helpful from the man's point of view, too; he always knows the status of the woman to whom he is relatin... |
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| 3 | 517 |
"Is there more happiness in a society in which all are free," she asked, "than in one in which some are not free?" "I do not know," I said. |
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| 6 | 471 |
Perhaps he did not kiss me because I was free, or, I added, in my thinking, not truly understanding the qualification, because he thought I was free. |
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| 6 | 479 |
I am free! Of course, I am free! "Go now to the slave ring," a voice seemed to say to me. |
10 |
| 7 | 113 |
I wondered if free men and free women ever met in such places, for affairs. |
10 |
| 8 | 86 |
"No free woman, unless a capture, may proceed beyond this point unless she is in the charge of a free man who is responsible for her and has a current license for her. |
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| 8 | 87 |
This is a device to control the movements of free women in the house and a precaution against the attempted escape of slave girls pretending to be free women". |
10 |
| 9 | 137 |
It is common, too, of course, more generally, for them to kneel whenever they find themselves in the presence of a free person, for example, if they are in a room and a free person enters. |
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| 11 | 190 |
"I am free! I am free!" "Of course you are," he said. |
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| 13 | 30 |
I, though a free woman, had been face-stripped before free men. |
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| 17 | 114 |
"Where you come from," she said, "do slaves not address free women as 'Mistress'?" "I am a free woman, too," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 206 |
"Do you believe that slaves should serve free persons," he asked, "or that free persons should serve slaves". |
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| 19 | 76 |
But I was a free woman! On Gor, as on Earth, free women were seldom, if ever, no matter what they did, punished. |
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| 22 | 82 |
"I am a free woman!" "If you are a free woman, and are not from this area," said one of the slaves, "I think you should flee. |
10 |
| 23 | 259 |
"Accustom yourself to calling free men 'Master' and free women 'Mistress,'" he said. |
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| 33 | 662 |
For whom could a man such as he entertain respect but a free woman? I thought of the noble, serene, contumacious, insolent, lofty free women of Gor. |
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| 36 | 512 |
"You are not a free woman, and even when you were a free woman, in some trivial legal sense, you were a natural slave, a woman who in her heart was a slave, a woman not only fit for the collar but one who belonged in it". |
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| 36 | 785 |
"Now, free me!" "Why should I free you?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 31 |
No longer could she compare herself only with free women, but must now compare herself with slaves, as well; indeed, she should no longer think to compare herself with free women, at all, as she was now a slave; she should not even dare to harbor such a presumptuous comparison; free women were now d... |
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| 1 | 370 |
"There is no more free woman left in me! The free woman is gone!" "Is it true?" he asked. |
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| 1 | 483 |
It had been within the context of his capture rights that she had, as a free woman, of her own free will, pronounced upon herself a formula of enslavement. |
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| 1 | 519 |
I did not know what true men were until I came to Gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and fulfillments which are mine, ... |
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| 1 | 769 |
The free woman may speak whenever and however she pleases, for she is free. |
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| 2 | 161 |
"Herewith," she said, "I, though a free woman, gladly and willingly, and of my own free will, dare to grant you my favor!" She then thrust the light scarf through an eyelet on the collar of my robes and drew it halfway through. |
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| 2 | 177 |
One must understand, first, that they are given by free women and of their own free will. |
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| 2 | 181 |
In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu... |
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| 2 | 807 |
The free woman, after all, is a free woman, and the slave is a slave. |
10 |
| 2 | 1489 |
"Do you think I do not know when a woman's body is ready to give pleasure to a man—even that of a free woman?" Such receptivity is rarely achieved in so short a time with a free woman. |
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| 6 | 51 |
"This farce is an insult to free women!" cried the free woman in the audience, she in the blue of the scribes. |
10 |
| 6 | 135 |
"And I find it an insult to free women!" said the free woman. |
10 |
| 6 | 523 |
"What you know nothing of," said the free woman to her, "is of being a free woman, meaningless slut". |
10 |
| 9 | 68 |
"As she seems to be free," I said, "I will claim her, she in the modality of the free captive". |
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| 11 | 43 |
Similarly her beauty has not, as yet at least, as you can see, been graced by the imprinting upon it of some delicate emblem indicative of the status of property, some device recollective of the unmistakable, transforming kiss of the blazing iron! As advertised, as proclaimed, as announced earlier, ... |
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| 21 | 142 |
Not only is a slave different in fact from a free woman, but they appear different from a free woman, and this difference is easy to detect. |
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| 21 | 157 |
It is one thing to look upon a woman as a free woman, when she is a free woman, and another thing to look upon her as a slave, when she is a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 166 |
It is customary for Gorean slaves to address free women as "Mistress" and free men as "Master". |
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| 4 | 612 |
In a moment Feiqa, vital and sensuous, liberated now from the fear of the free woman, and having felt the whip, in that perhaps being reminded of what might be the consequences of failing to please free persons, addressed herself once more, eagerly and joyously, marvelously and subserviently, to the... |
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| 5 | 148 |
I did not want free women attacking the girl in rage, and perhaps tearing the objects free. |
10 |
| 15 | 79 |
But then, again, a free woman is a free woman, and I supposed that should count for something. |
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| 16 | 16 |
Nearby, to her right, and my right, only feet away, almost at our elbows, some sitting, some lying down, crowded together, chained, huddled, in the half darkness, illuminated by a tiny lamp on the wall, against one wall of the Semnium, was a large group of choice free women, probably gathered here a... |
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| 18 | 250 |
Such a decision may be made of one's own free will, but it cannot be revoked by one's own free will, for, after it is made, one is then helpless to alter or influence one's new condition in any way. |
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| 25 | 203 |
She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, though she is knee... |
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| 25 | 1194 |
In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than she ever was as a mere free f... |
10 |
| 25 | 1279 |
In passing one might note that the slave addresses all free men as 'Master' and all free women as 'Mistress'. |
10 |
| 25 | 1335 |
It is normally only free folks among free folks who are lonely, each so separate from the other. |
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| 26 | 1343 |
"What does a free woman do," she asked, "when she learns she is a slave?" "You are free," I said. |
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| 26 | 1348 |
"The self-enslavement decision is an interesting one," I said, "for it is a decision which is freely made, being made by a free individual, but, once made, it is irrevocable, for the individual is then no longer free, but only a property". |
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| 26 | 1542 |
"You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men. |
10 |
| 26 | 1592 |
A common form of slave tunic, hanging loose and free about the body of the slave, is free of the right shoulder and held at the left shoulder by a disrobing loop. |
10 |
| 26 | 2031 |
And there are few things which more impress her bondage on a slave than realizing that her speech is ultimately at the discretion of free persons, that she may not speak without the permission, either implicit or explicit, of free persons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 144 |
Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a free woman, as she had hitherto s... |
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| 6 | 55 |
Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and proud, so much the natural ... |
10 |
| 6 | 636 |
Strictures of this sort, of course, do not apply to free persons, such as free women. |
10 |
| 9 | 154 |
Slave girls seldom object to such treatment, vulgar though it might seem to free women, and even free women, I think, in spite of the scandal they profess to feel in its wake, do not really mind it. |
10 |
| 11 | 212 |
If a "free woman," that is, one legally free, were to publicly perform such a dance on Gor she would probably find herself in a master's chains by morning. |
10 |
| 20 | 41 |
Indeed, one of the major differences between the slave and her free sister is that the slave is generally far more sexually fulfilled than her free sister. |
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| 20 | 147 |
Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves. |
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| 20 | 150 |
Most such work is generally done by the free labor of a given community, though this "free labor" may, upon occasion, particularly in emergencies, be "levied," the laborers then contributing their labor as a form of special tax, or, if you like, as having been "conscripted" or "drafted," rather as i... |
10 |
| 20 | 214 |
Two forms of work groups not localized to individual cities are the "free gang" and the "free" chain. |
10 |
| 20 | 216 |
The "free gang" consists of free men who are in the hire of a contractor who rents their services, and his own, say, to various cities, organizations, and groups. |
10 |
| 20 | 229 |
On the other hand, it usually tends to have a far more limited pool of skills than that of the "free gangs" and, accordingly, it is usually employed in ruder, less demanding labors, or even in labors which, because of their arduousness, or their onerous nature, would be distasteful to free gangs. |
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| 27 | 147 |
No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom. |
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| 32 | 170 |
"To free me?" "Do you think you should be a free woman?" he asked. |
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| 34 | 672 |
The free woman was noble and glorious, was the lofty equal of the free man, and might even share a Home Stone with him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 241 |
Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave rejoices to be owned, to belong to a man? Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave can be grateful for her domination, for her mastering? Can she not, then, sense the emotional depths of the slave? Let the free woman, then, in a quiet mo... |
10 |
| 23 | 47 |
To be sure, unless the slave is a bred slave, most of this interest is on the part of the free women, for the slaves have usually, at one time or another, been free women, and have a very good idea of how narrow, dull, limited and mediocre is the sex life of the free woman. |
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| 2 | 249 |
"I am a free woman!" "We are free women!" cried the woman next to her. |
10 |
| 2 | 330 |
"Those tasks are for low free women," she said, "not for high free women such as we!" "Yet you are now at the wall, in shackles," I said, "and have upon you not so much as a veil". |
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| 2 | 418 |
It began as a free woman's kiss but, as I held her, and pressed her to me, and she then pressed herself to me, it ended as a kiss which, though doubtless still that of a free woman, hinted at unmistakable latencies within her, that she might, under suitable conditions of helplessness and submission,... |
10 |
| 8 | 810 |
I had little doubt, accordingly, that the blond woman kneeling before the fellow with the whip was his free companion, or former free companion. |
10 |
| 8 | 815 |
If she were still his free companion, it seemed she would now be kept in the modality of bondage, but perhaps she was now only his former free companion, and had been reduced to actual bondage, now being subject to purchase by anyone. |
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| 8 | 945 |
"Am I yet legally free?" "Yes," I said, "but I think it will be well for you to accustom yourself to calling free men 'Master. |
10 |
| 10 | 130 |
Too, many had been frustrated by free women, and free women in their own city. |
10 |
| 15 | 23 |
Did the fellow not know the Lady Claudia was a free woman? It seemed to me he handled her rather roughly, given that she was free. |
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| 15 | 284 |
"The question may be easily enough decided, of course," I said, "by seeing whether or not these garments, unlike the garments of free women, can be easily, swiftly and provocatively removed, and, say, whether or not, in the typical fashion of free women, even of the lower castes, you are wearing und... |
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| 16 | 169 |
"And now," she cried, "that you have won from her her confession that she was slave, and she has said the words themselves, enacting embondment upon herself, you would put her, now, not even in the dignity of the free woman, but in the misery and degradation of a shamed slave, upon the spear!" "Do y... |
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| 18 | 307 |
Whereas most of the slave girls in the crowd, recognizable by the brevity of their tunics and collars, in their terror and confusion, were simply fleeing, intermingled with the free persons, some, like the former Lady Publia, were well in the custody of free women. |
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| 21 | 307 |
"Perhaps," she said, "my chains may now be removed, and I may be given suitable raiment, that of a free woman, that I may take a place amongst my free sisters". |
10 |
| 21 | 549 |
Too, of course, Lady Claudia, still a free person, who could render free testimony, not even extracted under torture, for example, had been present. |
10 |
| 21 | 845 |
The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law, in most c... |
10 |
| 21 | 1022 |
It is not unusual for the occupants of a coffle, of either sort, to be verbally and physically abused by free women and children, the children taking the behavior of the free women as a license authorizing their own tricks and pranks, to be spat upon, struck with switches, pelted with small stones, ... |
10 |
| 21 | 1090 |
Sometimes slaves so clad are used as decoys, as in supposedly rich caravans, actually manned by guardsmen disguised as merchants, hoping to lure in bandits, or as substitutes for free women, as when it is thought important to divert pursuits or disguise the whereabouts or movements of free women, su... |
10 |
| 21 | 1264 |
Perhaps to some extent, too, such garmenture, in its lovely degradation, protects the slave from the fury of free women—is the slut not already sufficiently exposed and shamed, but why do they bear their beauty with such defiant and brazen pride? What right have they to be so content, so radi... |
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| 21 | 1354 |
The slave, because of her training, her emotional freedom, thousands of times greater than that of a free woman, the discipline she is under, and such, can attain orgasm much more quickly than a free woman, sometimes, particularly if she has been deprived for a time, almost immediately. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 58 |
In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave. |
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| 42 | 114 |
"To be sure, she is still free, and free women, in this area, or at least free women of Ar, or those who speak with such an accent, are rare". |
10 |
| 1 | 412 |
In the oasis towns of the Tahari, and in the vicinity of the great desert, sometimes even free women are belled, and wear ankle chains, as well, that the length of their stride may be measured and made beautiful, and perhaps, too, to remind them, even though they be free, that they are but women. |
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| 2 | 102 |
"But I was free, free!" she pointed out. |
10 |
| 2 | 105 |
She would now call all free men "Master," and, of course, all free women "Mistress". |
10 |
| 19 | 1132 |
Many free women know more of the behaviors of slaves, and details of the relationships between them and their masters, than many free men give them credit for knowing. |
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| 19 | 1459 |
"I wish I was free to be sexual, that it was commanded of me, that I would have no choice! That I would be forced to be what I am! That I would be truly in my place, where I belong, helplessly, even institutionally, under absolute male dominance!" "But you are a free woman," I reminded her. |
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| 20 | 158 |
I had much touched her over the past few days, even though she was a free woman, as much for my relief, such as a free woman could provide, as for her instruction, usually when we had camped, sometimes before we slept, sometimes afterwards, or when I awakened and it pleased me, and sometimes, too, o... |
10 |
| 24 | 126 |
Similarly it might be opened, if one wished, say, to free the prisoner's hands for feeding or, if she is a free female, perhaps for the signing of papers". |
10 |
| 26 | 154 |
"Even though I were a free woman?" "If you were in chains," I said, "you would presumably no longer be a free woman". |
10 |
| 27 | 16 |
Of course, if no one is about, and one will otherwise inevitably sink, it makes sense to attempt to free oneself, by wading, or, in effect, trying to swim free. |
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| 36 | 58 |
"But as a free woman of high caste," she exclaimed, "to be put in the garment of a free woman of low caste is unthinkable!" "I see your point," I said. |
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| 44 | 132 |
"I am a free woman! I am a free woman!" "We all have our faults," I said. |
10 |
| 44 | 264 |
"You will address all free men as 'Master,'" I said, "and all free women as 'Mistress. |
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| 48 | 18 |
"I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am shameless! Yes, shameless, shameless! I am... |
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| 48 | 246 |
"Free it! Free it!" cried Marcus, covering her with kisses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 130 |
"It might be wise to accustom yourself, even though you are legally free now," I said, "to addressing free men as "Master" and free women as "Mistress". |
10 |
| 1 | 392 |
There was something in what the free woman had said, though in the frenzy of a sacking, the blood of the victors racing, flames about, and such, few occupants of a fallen city, I supposed, either free or slave, were altogether safe. |
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| 1 | 405 |
She, the free woman, a free person, might be trampled by tharlarion, or be run through, or have her throat cut, by victors. |
10 |
| 1 | 408 |
Many is the free female in such a city who has torn away her robes before enemies, confessed her natural slavery, disavowed her previous masquerade as a free woman, and begged for the rightfulness of the brand and collar. |
10 |
| 1 | 418 |
The slave could not see the face of the free woman, of course, but such locutions, "beautiful Mistress," and such, on the part of slave girls addressing free women, are common. |
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| 2 | 38 |
It was the sort of garment which free women profess to despise, to find unspeakably shocking, unutterably scandalous, the sort of garment which they profess to regard with horror, the sort of garment which they seem almost ready to faint at the sight of, and yet to Phoebe, and to others like her, in... |
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| 8 | 311 |
Too, what if a fellow were to bring in ten thousand free slaves? Then there would be little room even for free folk. |
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| 9 | 138 |
"Accord such titles of respect to all free persons, even the lowliest of free persons," I said, "for you will be more beneath them than the dirt beneath their sandals". |
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| 10 | 393 |
In many respects the slave is more free than the free woman. |
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| 10 | 398 |
She is keenly sexual, which she is usually wise enough to conceal from the free woman, lest she be bound and mercilessly whipped, but the free woman suspects this only too well. |
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| 10 | 400 |
How could the free woman forgive her that? Too, perhaps most grievously, she, slave clad and collared, owned, devoted and obedient, eager to please, is incomparably more attractive to men than her rigid, bundled, inhibited, socially constrained free sister. |
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| 12 | 134 |
It is regarded as preposterous for a free man, as unworthy of a free man. |
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| 12 | 141 |
How is it possible that a free man could come to care for a slave, a collared, half-clad curvaceous little beast who desires only to serve him, and love him, and please him, as her master? How incomprehensible! Why rather, does he not piteously sue for the inestimable regard of a lofty, noble free w... |
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| 12 | 265 |
Some free women claim that this book, which is supposedly written by Dina, "a slave," which continues to appear in various editions and revisions, because of its intelligence and sensitivity, is actually, and must have been, written by a free woman. |
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| 12 | 407 |
In any event, this attack on the part of the free woman, which happily had been only verbal, as they often are not, and the abused slave in any event dare not protest or object, as they are at the mercy of free persons, was in its way a profound compliment. |
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| 14 | 36 |
A free woman, as long as she remains free, can stand to the fullness of her short, graceful height before men. |
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| 19 | 1030 |
Doubtless some women did, arrogating to themselves, as free women are free to do, the prerogatives of males. |
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| 20 | 682 |
How, too, this woman's life had changed! What a dramatic volte-face, from a free woman to a slave! How different she was from a free woman, this slave, hot, needful, beautiful, owned, obedient, begging. |
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| 21 | 337 |
She, in all her loftiness and pride, cannot begin to bear the thought of another learning that her throat, that of a free woman, such a free woman, is encircled by the slave band. |
10 |
| 22 | 342 |
After all, on what grounds should they object to a legitimate command issued by a free person to one who, after all, was but a slave? "Attack him!" said the woman to the free men with her. |
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| 24 | 163 |
To be sure, Goreans tend to take their free women very seriously, though perhaps not as seriously as the free women are inclined to take themselves. |
10 |
| 24 | 166 |
When all, or most, women are free, there is obviously not much of a contrast between the free and slave. |
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| 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. |
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| 24 | 177 |
Another difference, of course, is that the free woman on Gor is almost certain to have a Home Stone, and the free woman of Earth will not. |
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| 27 | 563 |
One of the things which is a part of a Gorean free girl's education, once she has reached puberty, and particularly if she is of the upper castes, is the intricate couture of the free woman's wardrobe. |
10 |
| 27 | 940 |
"How pathetic the men of Earth," she said, "they let their slaves run free!" "They may not always run free," I said. |
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| 27 | 949 |
"Once a man, any man," I said, "has tasted a slave, do you think he will ever again go back to free women?" "Free women," she said, "are a thousand times better than a slave!" "Of course," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 181 |
In the wars between free women and slave girls woe to the slave girl who is the serving slave of the free woman! On such a woman the free woman may to her heart's content indulge her vanity, her arrogance, and her pettiness, and may inflict on her her animosity, and, indeed, her hatred, and her frus... |
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| 13 | 216 |
"I am a helpless free woman," said the free woman, wheedlingly, "and you are a free man. |
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| 8 | 294 |
I know now, of course, as I did not earlier, that there are many free women on Gor, and, indeed, that most women on Gor are free. |
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| 8 | 784 |
I felt wanton, and excited, and alive! Too, in spite of my brand, my tunic, the cell, the bars, I felt free, more free than I had ever felt before. |
10 |
| 10 | 493 |
It is rumored they sometimes work in conjunction with free women who manage baths, and such, patronized by free women. |
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| 10 | 1002 |
How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the leather again... |
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| 12 | 74 |
In such a situation, where a male might expect to continue the pursuit of a free woman, who is, after all, at that point, still a free person, he might not wish to tire himself pursuing a slave. |
10 |
| 12 | 590 |
Doubtless he was free and could respect me, as I was free, as well. |
10 |
| 13 | 68 |
"She told me she was a free woman!" said the free woman. |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
How different we are from free women! And yet, interestingly, how artificial, and how fragile, and how culturally precarious, is the distinction between the free woman and the slave. |
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| 13 | 229 |
Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends upon the whims of males? There is a thin l... |
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| 13 | 741 |
Was I not to be beaten? The free woman would never know, of course! But I recalled that the monster had assured the free woman that I would be punished. |
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| 14 | 205 |
That is what I think of your condition, and what you really are, you free females! Take away your veils and robes, and we shall see what you are! There, see, you are no more than we, only more slaves! Yes, perhaps I had chanced to yield, to some extent, to the temptation to take a little vengeance o... |
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| 14 | 208 |
Perhaps he had not realized before that the free woman was actually an attractive and desirable female, at least for a free woman, one who had not yet learned slave softness, slave helplessness. |
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| 14 | 538 |
Somewhat to my surprise the pit master had been agreeable to the free woman's desire to bathe, and he permitted me, the next day, when the cistern was free, to take her there. |
10 |
| 14 | 1080 |
I then, head down, avoiding their eyes, as a slave normally does with unknown free men, turned about and led the free woman up the stairs. |
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| 14 | 1226 |
She has forgotten everything! Does she not know how she is clad, that she is in a collar, that she is leashed! Woe! She is acting like a free woman! The free woman's eyes flashed above her veil. |
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| 14 | 1474 |
She was a free woman! I could well conjecture her dismay, her discomfort, her fear, her wild sensations—she, a free female, being held so close to him, she half stripped, he fully dressed, so powerful, so masculine! "'Tuta'," he read. |
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| 16 | 648 |
And it seemed, too, that, from the point of view of those on this world, that some grievous insult was intended as well, first, doubtless, the general insult that he, a free man, would be attended by a mere slave, an insult common to those in the pits, and, second, that he, a free man, would be atte... |
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| 18 | 120 |
Sometimes, in a foreign city, a free woman will elude her guards and thrust her way into the precincts of a paga tavern, precincts within which free women are seldom, if ever, found. |
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| 18 | 151 |
In some cities, as I understand it, the state involves itself in such matters; for example, in some cities it is a matter of public ordinance that slave tunics may not be longer than a certain amount; this ordinance is presumably motivated not only by a desire to draw a clear distinction between the... |
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| 18 | 168 |
If free women were really beautiful, why would they not be already in collars? To be sure, most slaves were once free women. |
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| 18 | 202 |
On the other hand, I must grant that the "free woman," once she is no longer free, once she becomes a slave, and learns her collar—once she is no longer free—and has now become a slave girl—will have her value—on the block, and in the kitchen, and in the furs. |
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| 18 | 215 |
I was a little apprehensive about matters, of course, for it seemed that the pit master had realized what I was doing with the free woman, using her, at least from my own point of view, to take out my little vengeances on my superiors, free women. |
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| 19 | 754 |
'" "I am a free woman!" said the free woman. |
10 |
| 19 | 786 |
"But I am a free woman!" said the free woman. |
10 |
| 19 | 790 |
Most of the hairpieces, and wigs, and such, affected by free women are certified as being from the hair of free women. |
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| 19 | 984 |
"Men could use me, me, a free woman—" "Once a free woman," I said. |
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| 21 | 27 |
"You are a free woman!" "Do you think not being branded, not being collared, makes me a free woman?" she asked. |
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| 23 | 46 |
On the one hand, as the Lady Constanzia was at least technically a free woman, might I not be reprimanded for having subjected her to certain indignities, my little slave girl's vengeances on a free woman? And, on the other hand, paradoxically, as she was now little other than a slave, might not I, ... |
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| 38 | 155 |
What could her sisters do, after all, if what was returned to them was, at that time, little better than a needful female slave? She would still be legally free, and that would suffice for the justification of the ransom's collection, a ransom measured, interestingly enough, to a rate appropriate to... |
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| 46 | 7 |
"They wanted one to attend upon a prisoner, one who would be utterly ignorant of the affairs of our world, one who could be depended upon to innocently and naively discharge the duties of a keeper, relieving free men of that responsibility, thus, too, enabling the contacts with the prisoner to be th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 309 |
She had been free, and had been free and lonely, free and unwanted, free and unnoticed, free and undesired, free and terribly miserable. |
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| 30 | 804 |
I have been the most free of the free, or thought myself such, and am now amongst the most enslaved of the enslaved, and am yet, because of that, the most free of the free, the truly free, for I am no longer at war with myself. |
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| 24 | 583 |
Whereas a woman's slave may, and often must, handle the clothing of a free woman, assisting the free woman in her cabinet, and such, she is seldom, if ever, permitted to wear the clothing of a free woman. |
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| 25 | 611 |
"I am free! I am a free woman mistakenly, wrongly, brought before you, thusly exposed and degraded, as though I might be a naked slave! I am a free woman! I am the Lady Melanie of Brundisium. |
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| 26 | 1174 |
How different things are for the slave and free! The free male, should he have an interest in free women, perhaps he has no access to slaves, usually initiates the sexual encounter. |
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| 26 | 1308 |
The free woman may think herself a thousand times above the slave, and may be justified in doing so, and, indeed, in many ways, but the slave, kneeling frightened before the free woman, her head to her sandals, knows that it is she, and not the free woman, who has been collared. |
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| 27 | 3353 |
She must learn to speak not with the strident, insolent tones of a free woman, but with the softness, and deference, of the slave; see that she wears her tunic well, and attractively; she is to be neat and well groomed, brushed, combed, and cleaned; she is not a slovenly free woman; let her keep the... |
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| 8 | 121 |
She had learned, incidentally, that she must address all free men as 'Master' and all free women, though she had not yet encountered one on this world, as 'Mistress'. |
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| 11 | 603 |
Many free women, so garmenting themselves, as an adventure, thinking to have the run of the city, to go into areas forbidden to free women, to see the insides of paga taverns, and such, have, to their horror, found themselves, gagged and blindfolded, struggling futilely in the tight ropes of slavers... |
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| 12 | 374 |
I seem to be the most free, and the least free, of all women. |
10 |
| 12 | 435 |
The free woman, being free, can sell, barter or trade her beauty for favors or gain. |
10 |
| 12 | 526 |
One refers to free men as "Master" and free women as "Mistress," unless given permission to use their names". |
10 |
| 13 | 216 |
If the choice is between you and a free woman, the tarnsman will almost certainly notice that you, as your gown is sleeveless, are almost certainly slave, and will thus, presumably, go after the free woman. |
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| 13 | 389 |
"Free me! Free me! Call guardsmen!" cried the woman in the net. |
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| 15 | 214 |
"Was I not beautiful before, Master, if I was, long ago, when I was a free woman?" "I assure you, my dear, that you are a thousand times more beautiful now, with that collar on your neck, than you ever were, or could be, as a free woman". |
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| 16 | 395 |
If a brand is found the woman will be stripped and bound by the free women, switched liberally, for there is little love lost between free women and slaves, and then turned over to magistrates, to be returned to the mercies of her master. |
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| 16 | 620 |
How lovely they were! She wished she, too, might walk about so, so garbed, and free, though in her collar, be free to move about so boldly, so beautifully. |
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| 16 | 1091 |
Was she not supposed to cry such things to herself? Was it not expected? Didn't she want to be free? Surely she knew that her society had insisted that she must want to be free, so what was it, deep within her, deeper than her society, more profound than convention, that wanted rather to love and se... |
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| 16 | 1105 |
Let those who wish to be free, be free, and let those who would be slaves be slaves. |
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| 17 | 654 |
"But thousands of things are done everyday, even to free women, and free men, without their consent," he said. |
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| 17 | 682 |
"The free should not be slave, and the slave should not be free," he said. |
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| 17 | 684 |
"Just as it is wrong for the properly free to be enslaved," he said, "so, too, it is wrong for the properly enslaved to be free". |
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| 18 | 31 |
The slave addresses all free men as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress". |
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| 18 | 34 |
To be sure, the slave commonly refers to her owner as she refers to free men and free women in general, namely, simply as "Master" or "Mistress". |
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| 18 | 477 |
Men, it seems, respect free women, but seek slaves, they venerate the citizeness, but it is we whom they buy; they esteem the free woman but it is we whom they rope and leash, and lead home. |
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| 18 | 478 |
It is little wonder free women hate slaves, and slaves fear free women. |
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| 18 | 548 |
And, indeed, where men are concerned, at least free men, and these men were presumably free, what alternative does a slave girl have other than instant and perfect obedience? After a few Ehn she again felt her legs spread and the tube, or one similar to it, was again inserted within her. |
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| 20 | 384 |
When the bird turned away, to strike at another bird, Ellen, wildly, thrust the last rope free, and found herself in the water, the basket free of the harness, clinging to the remains of the basket, little more now than two sides and a flooring. |
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| 20 | 723 |
Another theory as to the usual choice of gray for state slaves is that it is a sop cast to the sensibilities of free women, who, resenting the usual effects of female slaves on free men, wished the state to limit or reduce the attractiveness of its slaves. |
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| 22 | 19 |
"Do you not know enough to kneel before a free person, girl?" inquired the free woman. |
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| 22 | 168 |
It is a common belief on Gor that all free females desire in their secret hearts to be the slaves of masters; there is a saying, in every free female there lurks a slave, a slave awaiting her liberation, her freedom, her collar. |
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| 24 | 80 |
A free woman walks proudly beside a free man or, if the press does not permit this, is often accorded the privilege of preceding him. |
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| 25 | 224 |
"How pathetic and miserable to be a slave! How glorious it would be to be free, so that I might tantalize and taunt him, that I might make him suffer, that I might make him miserable, that I might punish and torment him, if only with the glimpse of an ankle, with all the cleverness and all the power... |
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| 25 | 460 |
Why do they do this to a poor slave? That former free woman! What does she know of what will be done to her, of what passions will be kindled within her! What does she know now of being transformed into a man's plaything, a helpless, piteous, begging, pleading toy?" She looked at the former free wom... |
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| 25 | 508 |
Ellen turned to the former free woman and said, angrily, "So? We are both slaves!" "Yes, Mistress," smiled the former free woman. |
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| 25 | 609 |
"Succor! I beg succor! Behold me! I am not what I seem! I am a free woman, free!" Somewhere in the crowd a man laughed. |
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| 25 | 677 |
When with free men the free women seldom neglect an opportunity to speak loftily and disparagingly of slaves. |
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| 25 | 684 |
What do they do? How do they serve their masters? What goes on behind those closed doors? What is it like to have to obey? What is it like to be in a collar? When the free women are alone with one another, and no young free females are present, they speak of little else. |
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| 25 | 703 |
Accordingly, the former free woman, as other Gorean free women, would doubtless have heard of, or been apprised of, doubtless to her scandal and horror, and doubtless in whispers, behaviors sometimes attributed to slave girls on the block. |
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| 25 | 1114 |
Gorean free women, particularly of high caste, have a status which is far higher than that of the average free woman on Earth. |
10 |
| 25 | 1115 |
Indeed, the average free woman of Earth would have very little understanding, at least initially, culturally, of the social station of a Gorean free woman. |
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| 25 | 1126 |
Too, her transition from free to slave, given her background, is not as radical and dramatic a transition as would be that of a Gorean free woman to the same status, that of bondage. |
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| 25 | 1130 |
Too, the Gorean free woman is subject to many constraints, physical, psychological and cultural, of which the slave is free. |
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| 26 | 1321 |
Too, it is not unusual for a pleasing slave to be cherished, cherished as only a slave can be cherished, cherished as a free woman cannot be cherished, cherished in a way forever denied to a free woman. |
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| 27 | 1210 |
"Free?" "Legally free," said Mirus. |
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| 27 | 1213 |
"A free woman?" "The best thing about free women is that they may be made slaves," said Mirus. |
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| 27 | 1456 |
To be sure, one cannot have a free woman as a slave, as she is a free woman. |
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| 27 | 1467 |
The free woman may insist upon dilution, curtailments, abridgements, and compromises, but the slave may not; as a chattel, she will be possessed, ruled, and used as the slave she is; her master will have not some fraction from her, as he might from a free woman, granted to him in her benevolence, bu... |
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| 27 | 1471 |
She wishes to be handled, and used, and commanded, as a strong man handles, uses, and commands a woman, not with the sensitivity and timidity, the restraint and tentativeness, the civility and politesse, the caution and delicacy, with which a free man addresses his attentions to a free woman. |
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| 28 | 126 |
"But even if I were a free woman the love I feel for you would make me your helpless slave! But I am not free, but am a true slave, and belong in the totality of my being to my master! There can be no greater love than the love of a loving slave!" He was silent. |
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| 29 | 194 |
"So what of those who are not free?" "If they are not free, then they are subject to the whip," said Ellen. |
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| 30 | 347 |
But they are only slaves, lovely properties, shapely beasts, purchasable goods, degraded articles of commerce, immeasurably beneath a free person, beneath the notice of a free person, save as they may prove to be of some service, convenience, pleasure or profit, such things, to him. |
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| 30 | 489 |
Sometimes, too, a free man will withdraw from a match if he suspects that the woman's desires and needs are unworthy of a free woman. |
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| 30 | 490 |
After all, he is looking for a free woman, not a slave, a proud, lofty, noble, free woman, one who will fulfill the customs of her station, and prove to be a suitable asset, particularly with respect to connections and career. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 64 |
Free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-about, frustrated creatures who do not even ... |
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| 43 | 320 |
Many a blow, thus, has been prevented by the interposition of a free male between his slave and a free woman, to the fury of the frustrated free woman. |
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| 79 | 596 |
"It can be a capital offense," said Cabot, "for a slave to present herself as a free woman, to pretend to be a free woman, to garb herself as a free woman, or such". |
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| 81 | 159 |
"Am I not free, if the outlawry is lifted, free to return to my holding, free to go where I will, and be as I will?" "Perhaps," said Grendel. |
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| 1 | 1013 |
One thing that is apparently difficult for free Goreans to understand, and perhaps for others who are free, or enjoy the semblance of freedom, is the reveling of the slave in what they conceive of as her degradation. |
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| 2 | 338 |
A slave addresses free men as Master, free women as Mistress. |
10 |
| 3 | 68 |
Did she not know she could be lashed for speaking in that tone of voice to a free man? Did she think she was a free woman. |
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| 5 | 240 |
"You will address free men as "Master," free women as "Mistress". |
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| 10 | 59 |
Commonly slaves are not permitted to call free men and free women by their names. |
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| 24 | 254 |
"I am a free woman!" "A free woman, on a rope," said Cabot. |
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| 36 | 282 |
He found this amusing, for most slaves were once free women, and, usually, only the most beautiful of free women were collared. |
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| 36 | 283 |
Accordingly, almost all slaves would be likely to be more beautiful than most free women, a fact not lost on free women. |
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| 40 | 92 |
"Do not be cruel! Do not deprive me! My needs are a thousand times beyond those of a free woman! My needs are not those of free woman, but of a slave!" "An aroused slave?" "Yes!" "The needs are different?" he asked. |
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| 43 | 89 |
"Free me, free me, you fools!" screamed the Lady Bina. |
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| 43 | 316 |
The Gorean slave girl is much at the mercy of free women, by whom she is likely to be resented and hated, and free women are not above petty exercises of power, ordering the slave to kneel, to serve her, to bare herself, to kiss her embroidered slippers, and such. |
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| 43 | 422 |
"Oh!" Cabot had taken a doubled strand of slave cord, put it about her left wrist, drawn the free strands through the loop, jerked the loop thusly formed tight on her wrist, and then, with the free strands beyond the loop, twice encircled her right wrist, pulled the whole tight, and then knotted the... |
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| 55 | 336 |
She is a free woman and as a free woman must accept the penalties incurred by her crimes, crimes both obvious and grievous. |
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| 57 | 143 |
It will be almost as though she were free, but she knows she is not free. |
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| 64 | 136 |
In any event, these women clearly did not understand that the Lady Bina, for it was she whom they had entrapped, was a free woman, or, more likely, they had no concept at all of a free woman. |
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| 76 | 28 |
This is sometimes spoken of as the "paradox of the collar," namely, that she who is least free may, interestingly, be the most free. |
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| 77 | 62 |
"Perhaps you think you are a free woman?" "No, Master, I do not think I am a free woman!" "What are you, then?" "A slave, Master, a slave!" "Anything else?" "No, Master, only that! Nothing else. |
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| 78 | 21 |
What master would admit that he is fond of so low and worthless a thing as a slave? Suppose a free woman should hear of it?" "We must fear free women?" "Terribly," whispered Corinna. |
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| 78 | 121 |
"I want to yield so, and as no free woman, being free, could possibly yield, and how could I yield thusly, save to one who was my master?" "You could not," said Corinna, "nor could any woman. |
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| 79 | 206 |
There were no free women present at this feast, of course, so the slaves need not be attired in decorous tunics, or even gowns, nor needed they serve so deferentially and unobtrusively that they might almost not be present, in order that free women not be distressed or disturbed. |
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| 79 | 595 |
"In the garb of a free woman?" "Did the girls in the pleasure cylinder not speak to you of such things," he asked, "when they were measuring you for a tunic, teaching you how to belt a camisk, and such?" "Yes, Master," she said, "slaves must be distinctively garbed, that there be no mistaking them f... |
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| 81 | 143 |
"I understand," said Cabot, "the outlawry lifted, that I am free to return to my holding, free to go where I will, and be as I will". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 719 |
There are various reasons for this, as I understand it, for example, the slave learns that she is no longer a free woman, that her hair, its length, dressing, and such, is now at the disposal of masters, that the distinction between her and the free woman is to be clearly drawn, even in a matter as ... |
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| 1 | 454 |
"I do not wish to be free! But you must free me! You are not Gorean! You are of Earth, of Earth! You have no choice but to free me!" "I do not understand," I said. |
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| 4 | 332 |
I am free, a free woman! I am not to be touched! I am to be treated with respect and dignity! I am not a slave! I am a free woman!" I removed my hands from her garment, and stepped back. |
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| 9 | 280 |
"I am a free woman," said Miss Wentworth, "a free woman, a free woman!" "Of course," I said. |
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| 13 | 82 |
How like a stupid free woman was she still! Did the free woman not think there was nothing more to attracting a man than that she be a woman? To be sure, the hint of a bosom, the suggestion of the sweet width of hips, within the robes of concealment, was indeed attractive, and even free women unders... |
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| 22 | 438 |
Thus, technically, in that time she should have been exhibiting deference to the free, addressing free men as "Master," free women as "Mistress," and so on. |
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| 27 | 146 |
I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free than merely not yet collared, would be though... |
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| 1 | 193 |
They have a position and elevation in society which far transcends that of, say, the free woman of Earth who is usually not so much free as merely not yet enslaved. |
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| 1 | 396 |
Do not even free women sometimes inadvertently disarrange their veils? So, many slaves, at least in the absence of free women, before whom they are likely to grovel and cower, and wisely, to avoid being beaten, luxuriate and rejoice in their beauty and its display. |
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| 1 | 458 |
You have no choice but to free me! You must free me!" "You think so?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 420 |
Certainly one does not go about punishing the slaves of others, though free women tend to be rather free in this regard, and most Goreans are not above reprimanding errant slaves, whether their own or those of others. |
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| 3 | 422 |
Do not all slaves call free men "Master," and free women "Mistress"? Too, Constantina was clearly in need of discipline, and I suspected I might be willing to make an exception to my general reservations in her case. |
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| 3 | 424 |
Free women on Gor, as on Earth, are free to do much what they wish, with little or no fear of consequences. |
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| 4 | 278 |
"I am free, free!" I did not remove my hands from the neckline of the tunic. |
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| 4 | 359 |
"Free!" "Yes," I said, "you are a free woman, but one of Earth. |
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| 4 | 361 |
Compared to a Gorean free woman, sheltered by her Home Stone, secure within her walls, complacent in the unquestioned arrogance of her station, the women of Earth do not even understand what it is to be free. |
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| 4 | 368 |
"But it is true," I said, "that you are a free woman of Earth, at least as far as those women can be free, and thus that my codes, though the matter is controversial, much depending on interpretations, do suffice to give me pause". |
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| 4 | 387 |
Too, as you may not understand, even a Gorean free woman is expected to show a fellow respect, as another free person. |
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| 5 | 420 |
To be sure, even recent free women are sometimes put in such devices, that they become that much the sooner accustomed to their condition, that they are no longer free, but are now goods, now properties, now slaves. |
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| 5 | 721 |
Too, I supposed, if one wished to alter the appearance of a free woman, or, more likely, a former free woman, for some reason, perhaps to afford her something in the nature of a disguise, her hair might be shortened. |
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| 5 | 982 |
Who could do with a free woman, I wondered, who had once tasted slave? It is no wonder free women hate their embonded sisters, and treat them with such contempt and cruelty. |
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| 7 | 354 |
On the other hand, the sex lives of slaves are a thousand times richer and deeper than those of a free woman, if the free woman, with her hauteur and grandeur, has anything worth considering a sex life. |
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| 8 | 150 |
"I was told to expect two free men and a slave," said Tajima, "but I find two free men, and two slaves". |
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| 8 | 247 |
Tie my hands! Hood me! Lead me about, on a leash, like a slave! We shall see about such things! I am a free woman, a free woman!" I did not respond to her. |
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| 9 | 36 |
Cecily knew enough to address all free women as "Mistress," and all free men as "Master". |
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| 9 | 37 |
On the other hand, having been embonded on a Steel World, that of Agamemnon, later that of Arcesilaus, an unlikely place to encounter free women, she knew little of free women, at least of a Gorean sort. |
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| 9 | 38 |
The only free woman with whom she had had contact with on the Steel World had been the Lady Bina, a former Kur pet, who was less a Gorean free woman than a remarkably beautiful, ambitious, vain little animal. |
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| 9 | 44 |
The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman. |
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| 9 | 189 |
Sometimes, of course, as an act of cruelty, a free woman, for her amusement, before company, consisting of other free women, will order a terrified slave to offer her drink as she might a male, and then, when she does so, she will be denounced. |
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| 9 | 190 |
"What are you doing, you wanton slut? How dare you! Do you think I am a gross, lustful beast! I am a noble free woman, you miserable, disgusting, salacious hussy, you abject, collared she-tarsk! I am insulted! You will pay for that! Bring me the whip!" "Yes, Mistress," weeps the slave, and hurries t... |
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| 10 | 257 |
A free woman, on the other hand, or a woman who believes herself to be free, may require something further. |
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| 10 | 685 |
All free men are to be addressed as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'". |
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| 11 | 197 |
Slave wine makes no attempt to conceal the bitterness of ground, raw sip root, whereas "the wine of the noble free woman" is flavored, spiced, and sweetened in such a way that it offers no offense to the delicate and more refined sensibility of the free woman. |
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| 13 | 391 |
From the point of view of a free woman this act may seem humiliating, and perhaps it is, for a free woman, but, for the slave, it is a beautiful act of submission, even of love, in which she testifies to her joy in bondage, and expresses, humbly, and symbolically, her gratitude to her master, that h... |
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| 18 | 417 |
That they should serve such a feast while still free is thought to shame them excellently, and to teach them that even the glorious free women of the defeated are worthy only to be the naked servitors, and later slaves, of the victorious. |
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| 18 | 503 |
Sometimes overconfident forces do bring free women with them, camp followers, courtesans, and such, and, even, not unoften, highly placed free women, to companion high officers, preside over victory feasts, have the first chance to bid amongst the women of the enemy for serving slaves, and such. |
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| 18 | 522 |
To be sure, we might free them all, have them serve, as free women, and then recollar them". |
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| 22 | 428 |
I am a slave and must address all free men as 'Master', and all free women as 'Mistress'". |
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| 23 | 147 |
Who would want a free woman if one could have a naked, vulnerable, defenseless, adoring slave at one's feet? Few, if any, free women know the crawling, fetching of a whip in the teeth, the licking of confining slave bracelets, the writhing beneath a slave ring, the kisses of the slave, and such. |
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| 23 | 249 |
A free woman, of course, either walks next to a free male, or, in some cities, precedes him, as a mark of her status. |
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| 28 | 190 |
In any event, from the Gorean point of view, chasms separate the free woman of Earth, in so far as she has not yet been legally embonded, from the dignity, nobility, and glory of the Gorean free woman. |
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| 28 | 286 |
As a former free woman certainly the extraordinary pleasure she gives her master and the extraordinary pleasure, psychological and physical, she derives from his mastery has come as a revelation, a welcome and astonishing joy which she as a free woman had only suspected in fearful, secret moments. |
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| 40 | 51 |
The free woman, of course, either walks beside the free man, or precedes him. |
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| 40 | 132 |
In her servitude she finds fulfillments and joys scarcely conceivable by the free woman, fulfillments and joys unutterably beyond those of the free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 33 |
Even when she kneels before the free woman, in her mockery of a garment, fastened in a collar, her lovely hair in the dirt before the free woman's slippers, she knows herself special, and prized, in a way the free woman is not. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Did she truly think she might play with a free man? Did she truly think she might speak as a free woman? Did she not know she was a slave? Did she truly think that I, or any free man, would not put her to discipline? Let her learn differently. |
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| 3 | 466 |
The barefootedness of the slave also tends to draw a further distinction between her and the free woman, for the free woman, even of low caste, almost always has footwear of one sort or another, even if it is only a wrapping of cloth. |
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| 3 | 1037 |
'I am a free woman, a free woman!' I cried. |
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| 3 | 1074 |
How dared he, and I a free woman! Where were guardsmen that I might summon? Surely that was not such a kiss as might be given to a free woman! Might it not have been more appropriately imposed upon a paga girl or a brothel slut, fastened down for a man's pleasure? But I was strangely, inexplicably, ... |
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| 6 | 41 |
How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed within those cumbersome, ornate robes. |
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| 6 | 42 |
The free woman often hates the slave; the slave, often, feels not only fear of, but also pity for, the free woman. |
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| 12 | 501 |
What do they do, such things, the collar, bracelets, and such, other than confirm her womanhood upon a female? To be sure, slaves, as free woman are not, are well advised to answer quickly and truthfully any queries of a free man. |
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| 18 | 36 |
I wondered if she still thought of herself as a free woman, or was trying to think of herself as a free woman. |
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| 21 | 330 |
Do other free women suspect how she is now different from them? Could they possibly know? That she, though a free woman, has been subjected to slave use? How they would shun and scorn her, if they knew. |
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| 21 | 734 |
Many may have had their hair shorn and begged retreating soldiers, of Tyros and Cos, and of the free companies, to take them with them, not as inconvenient, troublesome free women, but as begging, complaisant slaves. |
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| 24 | 180 |
Many free women, it is said, and perhaps all, as is hinted, are merely slaves who have dared to conceal themselves for a time in the habiliments of the free. |
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| 26 | 62 |
The Pani free women, incidentally, seem, except for the companions of high officers, and such, to have much lower status than the typical Gorean free woman, certainly one of upper caste. |
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| 26 | 329 |
Beyond that, do not insult a free man! Do not insinuate that a free man might be so foolish as to care for a slave. |
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| 28 | 40 |
Do they not suggest that the object within her collar has come to the attention of free men? Do they not portend the possibility of eventual caresses, for which she hopes, which she is zealous to earn? "Dear fellows," I said, "it is possible these two were once free women. |
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| 28 | 173 |
I supposed that free women speculated that private dinners amongst free men, to which they were not invited, were often so served. |
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| 37 | 442 |
The female serving slave of a free woman is likely to be modestly tunicked, whereas the slave of a free man is likely to be tunicked in such a manner as to make it clear to other men that she was worth buying. |
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| 37 | 517 |
Free women have their vanity, sometimes extravagantly so, so why not a slave, as well? And, indeed, is not a slave even more entitled to vanity than a free woman? She, after all, has been looked upon by men, and found fit for collaring. |
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| 37 | 1136 |
Indeed, on her own world, I supposed she had been free, as free, at any rate, as such women could be, in such a world, where, I gathered, their values, views, attitudes, dress, behavior, and such were dictated, as nearly as I could tell, by lunatics who, in fear of themselves, lived in hiding, walle... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 183 |
Might they not have escaped the lips of a frightened slave? And how naturally I had addressed a free man as "Master!" I recalled, from the party, that all free males were to be addressed as "Master," and all free females as "Mistress!" I was taken to a side chamber. |
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| 7 | 326 |
How can free women compete with her? The free man may find the free woman of interest, for example, in matters of family, position, power, and wealth, but is it not the despised, meaningless slave to whom he turns for pleasure? Is it not the slave which his biological heritage demands? I sensed the ... |
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| 8 | 230 |
The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women. |
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| 18 | 795 |
I was in a collar! I had failed it! Did I think I was a free woman? I was no longer a free woman, if I had ever been a free woman. |
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| 49 | 172 |
The free woman on Gor has a status and power which would astonish most of the putatively free women of my former world, but then the Gorean commonly thinks of the women of my former world not as free women, at least as he understands that, but rather as slave stock. |
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| 1 | 44 |
How free we are, then, animals, so different from their free women. |
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| 4 | 482 |
"As I understand it," I said, "kajirae are commonly clothed sedately, in long gowns, if with bared arms, at such feasts, that is, if free women should be present?" One scarcely dared conjecture how they might serve, if free women were not present. |
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| 4 | 574 |
"And remember," she said, "you are to address all free males as Master, and all free females as Mistress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 113 |
Why then do free men court the free woman and buy the slave? Why do they yield their place in the theaters and concert halls to the free woman, and drag the slave by the hair to a tavern's alcove? When the free woman is courted, she may be uncertain if it is she, or her wealth, her influence, her fa... |
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| 9 | 255 |
Most slaves, of course, were once free women, free insofar as a woman may be regarded as free, as not yet collared. |
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| 17 | 111 |
The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth. |
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| 25 | 26 |
I was joyful! I was free, I thought, at last, free! Free! Then I paused amongst the leaves, the trees, and shade. |
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| 29 | 171 |
Whereas the Panther Woman, or Panther Girl, as other free women, commonly holds the slave in contempt, and is cruel to her, she seems to hate her less, on the whole, than she hates either the free male or the typical free female. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 252 |
A slave, if she speaks the name of the free, is expected to do so with the respect to which the free, being free, are entitled. |
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| 49 | 201 |
What free man, looking upon a free woman of possible interest, does not, in his imagination, consider her as a slave, how she might look, barefoot in a tunic, a collar on her neck? Does he not idly ponder how she might look, bellied and bound before him? Does he not wonder, sometimes, what might be ... |
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| 49 | 371 |
How excited and pleased we were to be slaves, free to rejoice in our attractiveness, free to revel in our beauty and its power, well aware of its effect on ourselves and others, no longer permitted, lest we be whipped, the curbs and checks, the ten thousand constraints and inhibitions, of the free w... |
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| 49 | 500 |
"A lovely free woman, with all the powers of a free woman, and those of a lovely free woman, can be of great use in a thousand enterprises". |
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| 50 | 246 |
As a result, a free woman, given the privileges of her liberty, usually feels free to abuse a free male, verbally or corporally, much as she might wish. |
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| 61 | 521 |
For most practical purposes, where all women are free no woman is free, or, indeed, not free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 132 |
There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am... |
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| 1 | 63 |
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic advantage, to indefinitely pursu... |
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| 11 | 419 |
"I know you! From Earth! From Earth! I know you! You know me! From Earth! From Earth!" He was here, on Gor! He was in the garb of the free! He would know me! He must have connections, relationships, power! He would free me! He would rescue me! He would save me! I would be released from the horrid de... |
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| 40 | 312 |
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w... |
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| 46 | 561 |
How utterly different is the movement of a slave from that of a free woman, how uninhibited, how free, how profound, how unapologetically, sinuously brazen, how radically and rawly female; the free woman dances her beauty, the slave, in all her beauty, dances her brand and collar. |
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