Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 231 | A similar yoke is sometimes used for the captive women of a city, but it is set much lower, usually such that they must pass under it on their belly. |
| 15 | 232 | After all, they are not men; they are women. |
| 15 | 233 | Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads. |
| 15 | 234 | In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them. |
| 15 | 235 | It is an impressive sight to see the women of a captive city, single file, stripped and on their bellies, in a long line winding through the streets and across the piazza, moving between soldiers with whips, crawling toward the yoke. |
| 15 | 236 | As they crawl beneath it, the slave beads touch their back. |
| 15 | 237 | On the other side of the yoke, while they are still on their bellies, they generally feel a collar locked on their neck. |
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A similar yoke is sometimes used for the captive women of a city, but it is set much lower, usually such that they must pass under it on their belly.
After all, they are not men; they are women.
Too, it is usually formed not of spears but of brooms, brought from the conquering city, and the horizontal bar is hung with dangling slave beads.
In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them.
It is an impressive sight to see the women of a captive city, single file, stripped and on their bellies, in a long line winding through the streets and across the piazza, moving between soldiers with whips, crawling toward the yoke.
As they crawl beneath it, the slave beads touch their back.
On the other side of the yoke, while they are still on their bellies, they generally feel a collar locked on their neck.
- (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter )