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I wondered if Gorean men could even conceive of a world where sexuality was supposedly shameful, where sex and guilt were pathologically intermingled, where children were raised to suspect and fear their own bodies, where the most natural urges and impulses of human beings were denounced, where guilt, pain and misery were approved devices of social control, where the sexes were taught to distrust one another, and were set against one another. - (Players of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #1597)

On Gor, there is very little sexual frustration, save, I suppose, in the case of free women, among whom, I gather, it is not uncommon, if not rampant. But on Gor, sexuality, on the whole, is open, biologically informed, honest, joyful, and fulfilling. The civilization of Gor is emergent from nature, not an ugly, high, dark wall erected to keep her at bay. I wondered if Gorean men could even conceive of a world where sexuality was supposedly shameful, where sex and guilt were pathologically intermingled, where children were raised to suspect and fear their own bodies, where the most natural urges and impulses of human beings were denounced, where guilt, pain and misery were approved devices of social control, where the sexes were taught to distrust one another, and were set against one another. But then, too, they could probably not understand a crowded, cruel, scratching, polluted world, a world without Home Stones. Perhaps Gor was not perfect, but she did not seem, to me, a bad world. Doubtless there are many worse. - (Players of Gor, Chapter 2)