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Self-deception is equated with rectitude. Self-betrayal is lauded as virtue. The paradox of the collar is that the woman hitherto indoctrinated, and enculturated, to be self-incarcerated is then freed to be at last herself. No longer does she languish beneath the neglect of an abstract, invisible master, society, with its rules and pressures, but now finds her fulfillment in the arms of an actual, visible master. For thousands of years the needs, the appetitiveness, the dangerousness, the tempting seductiveness of the female have been recognized, in myths, in stories, in teachings, in folk lore, in histories, in practices. It was only substantially, in a given tradition, in a given world, in little more than a recent period, that she has been taught to deny herself, and suspect her most natural urges and impulses, as natural to her as her breathing and the beating of her heart, and to claim to prize life-denying, pathological virtues, imposed upon her from without. But, too, there is little doubt that once these social conventions, cultural encrustations, and imprisonments, are shattered, are at last vanquished and torn away, she is then ready to feel, and be. - (Kajira of Gor, Chapter )