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It is men who carry spears and maintain walls; it is men who encounter the violence of the enemy; it is men who stand, armed and resolute, between the Home Stone and its desecration or destruction; it is men, the masters, who will decide what respect and privileges will be accorded women. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #141)

Companies exist, incidentally, for many purposes. For example, there are companies from which you can obtain a cook, or cooks, if you are planning a banquet, companies from which you can rent fine robes, or sandals, jewels for your companion, and so on. Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a home stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority, even to the occupancy of thrones, and who may enter into relationships, or discontinue them, much as they please, the Free Companionship requiring an annual renewal, Gor is essentially a man's world. It is men who carry spears and maintain walls; it is men who encounter the violence of the enemy; it is men who stand, armed and resolute, between the home stone and its desecration or destruction; it is men, the masters, who will decide what respect and privileges will be accorded women. They behave so because they are men, and they have never seen fit to relinquish their nature as men, their blood, their natural dominance. Gorean men, for whatever reason, wisely or not, have never chosen to enter into arrangements whereby they might be humiliated, dishonored, reduced, and destroyed. They will not do so. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter 11)