Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | 95 | Actually I suppose the effect of the brand depends greatly on the girl. |
| 21 | 96 | In many girls I would suppose the brand has little effect besides contributing to their shame, their misery and humiliation. |
| 21 | 97 | With other girls it might well increase their intractability, their hostility. |
| 21 | 98 | On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave. |
| 21 | 99 | But all in all I do not know if the brand is used primarily for its psychological effect or not. |
| 21 | 100 | Perhaps it is merely a device for merchants who must have some such means for tracing runaway slaves, which would otherwise constitute a costly hazard to their trade. |
| 21 | 101 | Sometimes I think the iron is simply an anachronistic survival from a more technologically backward age. |
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Actually I suppose the effect of the brand depends greatly on the girl.
In many girls I would suppose the brand has little effect besides contributing to their shame, their misery and humiliation.
With other girls it might well increase their intractability, their hostility.
On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave.
But all in all I do not know if the brand is used primarily for its psychological effect or not.
Perhaps it is merely a device for merchants who must have some such means for tracing runaway slaves, which would otherwise constitute a costly hazard to their trade.
Sometimes I think the iron is simply an anachronistic survival from a more technologically backward age.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )