Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 38 | 70 | Thwarted drives and suppressed desires led to hypocrisy, belligerence, impatience, cruelty, and war. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 38 | 67 | The city of Tharna was once ruled by a gynocracy. |
| 38 | 68 | Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges. |
| 38 | 69 | It was a travesty of biology, a meretricious, loveless, frustrated world. |
| 38 | 70 | Thwarted drives and suppressed desires led to hypocrisy, belligerence, impatience, cruelty, and war. |
| 38 | 71 | Women were victims, too, being unwittingly estranged from their own natures, taught to be what they were not; instructed to rejoice in their own misery, to see riches in their own self-denial and poverty. |
| 38 | 72 | In public, women wore masks, one supposes designed to portray uniformity, contentment, serenity, remoteness, and beauty. |
| 38 | 73 | Conformity reigned; difference and individualism were abhorred. |
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The city of Tharna was once ruled by a gynocracy.
Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges.
It was a travesty of biology, a meretricious, loveless, frustrated world.
Thwarted drives and suppressed desires led to hypocrisy, belligerence, impatience, cruelty, and war.
Women were victims, too, being unwittingly estranged from their own natures, taught to be what they were not; instructed to rejoice in their own misery, to see riches in their own self-denial and poverty.
In public, women wore masks, one supposes designed to portray uniformity, contentment, serenity, remoteness, and beauty.
Conformity reigned; difference and individualism were abhorred.
- (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 38)