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For a moment it seemed Claudia was not certain that she had been addressed. Was she not a woman? Then she realized that she was no longer entitled to that epithet, so dignified, so formal and exalted an appellation. With her embondment she had become a girl, a girl, with all the humiliating reduction in status so signified, but, too, now, she was subject as well to all the suggestions of extreme vulnerability, and of nubility, readiness, beauty, freshness, and sexual desirability, which that term connoted. A slaver would not be asked, for example, how many women he would put on a block that night but how many girls, or not how many women he had on his chain, but how many girls, and so on. Even a captured ubara put up for sale would hear his call to the effect, perhaps to her fury, "How much am I offered for this girl?" Slaves, of course, soon become accustomed to being referred to as, and thinking of themselves as, girls. There is nothing chronological in this, of course; it is a cognomen merely of status, a cultural, sociological matter. Too, they soon become proud to think of themselves as girls, in the sense of exciting, beautiful, needful, mastered slaves, for in this status they realize they are being recognized as, and praised as, of a worth and interest far above that accorded to the inhibited, suppressed, cumbersomely clad free women, whom they often think of among themselves as being little more than bulky, bundled-up, sexually inert tharlarion, with the usual confusions, hostilities and neuroses of the female without a master. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter )