Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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I have wondered sometimes if free women on Gor might not be happier if their culture permitted them to be somewhat more like the slave girls they so heartily despise.
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949
It seems a small enough thing that a free woman might be culturally permitted to have her ears pierced and, thus, be permitted earrings.
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950
Would it make so much difference? But the bonds of culture are strong.
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951
On Earth a free woman would not think of having herself branded, though it might improve her beauty; similarly, on Gor, a free woman would not consider having her ears pierced.
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952
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a custom which derives, I am told, from the city of Turia, which lies in Gor's southern hemisphere, an important manufacturing and trading center.
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A girl with pierced ears is, of course, either a slave or a former slave.
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954
If she is a former slave, her papers of manumission had best be in perfect order.
I have wondered sometimes if free women on Gor might not be happier if their culture permitted them to be somewhat more like the slave girls they so heartily despise.
It seems a small enough thing that a free woman might be culturally permitted to have her ears pierced and, thus, be permitted earrings.
Would it make so much difference? But the bonds of culture are strong.
On Earth a free woman would not think of having herself branded, though it might improve her beauty; similarly, on Gor, a free woman would not consider having her ears pierced.
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a custom which derives, I am told, from the city of Turia, which lies in Gor's southern hemisphere, an important manufacturing and trading center.
A girl with pierced ears is, of course, either a slave or a former slave.
If she is a former slave, her papers of manumission had best be in perfect order.
- (Slave Girl of Gor, Chapter )