Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 299 | Freedom is precious, but so, too, is love, and happiness. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 296 | The secret to happiness is doubtless illusive, but for the human female at least it does not require freedom. |
| 13 | 297 | Indeed, happiness for a human female often involves the willing surrender of freedom in order to achieve things which are of greater value and importance to her. |
| 13 | 298 | For example, she desires to belong, and the fullness of belonging is to be literally owned; she desires to be treasured, and to be a treasure one must be a possession; she desires to be wanted, and there is no mistaking the wanting of her, when she is so wanted that she is forcefully and categorically claimed, even as a slave; and she wants to serve, and how can one more fully serve than in the condition of servitude itself; and she wants to please, and as a slave she is free to do so, and must do so; and she wants to love, and love is the meaning and destiny of the female slave; it is that for which she lives; and she wants the man to be strong with her, audacious, powerful, and commanding, and thus she longs for a master. |
| 13 | 299 | Freedom is precious, but so, too, is love, and happiness. |
| 13 | 300 | And who are we to gainsay them to a woman if she finds them in the collar? What is important to human happiness for the human female is not liberty in itself, but the freedom to be herself, and as she wants to be. |
| 13 | 301 | And this she can find, together with her sexuality, in the chains of a slave. |
| 13 | 302 | What is important for happiness is doing what one wishes, and being as one wishes, and, ideally, having this doing and being supported by, and accepted by, and approved by, others. |
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The secret to happiness is doubtless illusive, but for the human female at least it does not require freedom.
Indeed, happiness for a human female often involves the willing surrender of freedom in order to achieve things which are of greater value and importance to her.
For example, she desires to belong, and the fullness of belonging is to be literally owned; she desires to be treasured, and to be a treasure one must be a possession; she desires to be wanted, and there is no mistaking the wanting of her, when she is so wanted that she is forcefully and categorically claimed, even as a slave; and she wants to serve, and how can one more fully serve than in the condition of servitude itself; and she wants to please, and as a slave she is free to do so, and must do so; and she wants to love, and love is the meaning and destiny of the female slave; it is that for which she lives; and she wants the man to be strong with her, audacious, powerful, and commanding, and thus she longs for a master.
Freedom is precious, but so, too, is love, and happiness.
And who are we to gainsay them to a woman if she finds them in the collar? What is important to human happiness for the human female is not liberty in itself, but the freedom to be herself, and as she wants to be.
And this she can find, together with her sexuality, in the chains of a slave.
What is important for happiness is doing what one wishes, and being as one wishes, and, ideally, having this doing and being supported by, and accepted by, and approved by, others.
- (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 13)