Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 113 | Similarly the robes of concealment worn by many Gorean women are doubtless dictated by similar sentiments. |
| 4 | 114 | On the other hand veiling is a not impractical modesty in a culture in which capture, and the chain and the whip are not unknown. |
| 4 | 115 | One justification for the veiling and for the robes of concealment, which is not regarded as inconsiderable, is that it is supposed to provide something of a protection against abduction and predation. |
| 4 | 116 | Who would wish to risk his life, it is said, to carry off a woman who might, when roped to a tree and stripped, turn out to be as ugly as a tharlarion? Slave girls, by contrast, are almost never permitted veils. |
| 4 | 117 | Similarly they are usually clad in such a way that their charms are manifest and obvious to even the casual onlooker. |
| 4 | 118 | This, aside from having such utilities as reminding the girls that they are total slaves and giving pleasure to the men who look upon them, is supposed to make them, rather than free women, the desiderated objects of capture and rapine. |
| 4 | 119 | I think there is something to this theory for, statistically, it is almost always the female slave and not her free sister who finds herself abducted and struggling in the lashings of captors or slavers. |
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Similarly the robes of concealment worn by many Gorean women are doubtless dictated by similar sentiments.
On the other hand veiling is a not impractical modesty in a culture in which capture, and the chain and the whip are not unknown.
One justification for the veiling and for the robes of concealment, which is not regarded as inconsiderable, is that it is supposed to provide something of a protection against abduction and predation.
Who would wish to risk his life, it is said, to carry off a woman who might, when roped to a tree and stripped, turn out to be as ugly as a tharlarion? Slave girls, by contrast, are almost never permitted veils.
Similarly they are usually clad in such a way that their charms are manifest and obvious to even the casual onlooker.
This, aside from having such utilities as reminding the girls that they are total slaves and giving pleasure to the men who look upon them, is supposed to make them, rather than free women, the desiderated objects of capture and rapine.
I think there is something to this theory for, statistically, it is almost always the female slave and not her free sister who finds herself abducted and struggling in the lashings of captors or slavers.
- (Rogue of Gor, Chapter )