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Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality, on a busy, common, crowded, indifferent, uncaring, polluted world, one on which they are at liberty to behave rather as they will, though to be sure within rather narrowly prescribed guidelines and channels set by their frowning, meddling, intrusive, observant society, free to exercise small vanities and pursue acceptable interests, to apply cosmetics, to shop, to dress, to work, and then the next day, it seems, though doubtless days later, they awaken to find themselves on a different world, on a chain. - (Explorers of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #188)

Gorean slavers usually keep their lovely prizes drugged en route between worlds. What need they know of their transition between the status of the free woman and that of the despised, vendible animal? It is not for such as they a knowledge of the nature and modalities of their transport. That they shall be kept in ignorance is the decision of their masters. Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality, on a busy, common, crowded, indifferent, uncaring, polluted world, one on which they are at liberty to behave rather as they will, though to be sure within rather narrowly prescribed guidelines and channels set by their frowning, meddling, intrusive, observant society, free to exercise small vanities and pursue acceptable interests, to apply cosmetics, to shop, to dress, to work, and then the next day, it seems, though doubtless days later, they awaken to find themselves on a different world, on a chain. The more intelligent of them, of course, will realize almost instantly that their transition has been effectuated by a sophisticated technology, but, even so, it is one which they have not witnessed, and one of which they have no inkling. Even to the most brilliant of them their transition will seem as mysterious and inexplicable, as magical and fearful, as it might to a paleolithic savage, or a dog or cat. They will understand little more than that the technology involved is well beyond that with which they are familiar, well beyond that of their native planet. - (Explorers of Gor, Chapter 27)