Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)
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The submission which commonly figures in the finale of her dance, on this world, is not, I assure you, purely symbolic.
The submission which commonly figures in the finale of her dance, on this world, is not, I assure you, purely symbolic.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #206)
Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for she is in her collar? When the music stops is she not then, clearly, once again, only a slave at the feet of men? And is not the central, nonrepudiable message of this dance, in its entire concept, in its beauty, in its presentation of the female in all her marvelous sensuousness, that man is the master? This form of dance, on this world, is called "slave dance".
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That is perhaps partly because, on this world, it is permitted only to slaves, but I think it is more likely because, in it, the nature of woman is clearly manifested as slave.
16
205
One might also mention that the dancer, in this form of dance, on this world, is commonly expected to satisfy the passions which she may have aroused.
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206
The submission which commonly figures in the finale of her dance, on this world, is not, I assure you, purely symbolic.
16
207
I danced out, onto the porch, overlooking the city, the lights.
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I now saw that some of the lights, indeed, were on the distant walls of the city.
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They were beacons.
Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power, ultimately, is hers, for she is in her collar? When the music stops is she not then, clearly, once again, only a slave at the feet of men? And is not the central, nonrepudiable message of this dance, in its entire concept, in its beauty, in its presentation of the female in all her marvelous sensuousness, that man is the master? This form of dance, on this world, is called "slave dance".
That is perhaps partly because, on this world, it is permitted only to slaves, but I think it is more likely because, in it, the nature of woman is clearly manifested as slave.
One might also mention that the dancer, in this form of dance, on this world, is commonly expected to satisfy the passions which she may have aroused.
The submission which commonly figures in the finale of her dance, on this world, is not, I assure you, purely symbolic.
I danced out, onto the porch, overlooking the city, the lights.
I now saw that some of the lights, indeed, were on the distant walls of the city.
They were beacons.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter 16)