Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
5
519
Bodies, though differing remarkably, one to the other, tend perhaps to be somewhat more similar than faces.
5
520
Accordingly, if one should be concerned to protect one's privacy and one's feelings, and such, it seems that the face might preferably be veiled.
5
521
In the face, surely, it is easier to read emotion and individuality than in a body.
5
522
Should not the face then, if one is concerned with concealment and privacy, be veiled? Is the face not more personal and revealing than the body? Does it not make sense then to consider it a proper object of concealment in a free person? Is one not entitled, so to speak, to privacy in the matter of one's thoughts and feelings, sometimes so manifest in one's facial expressions? However this may be, there are congruencies and dispositions which seem appropriate in given contexts.
5
523
Veils seem correct, and right, with the robes of concealment.
5
524
Too, seeing the lust of men to discern your features, and understanding what face veiling and unveiling means to them, tends to influence one's views of these matters.
5
525
I was terrified that such men see my face.
Bodies, though differing remarkably, one to the other, tend perhaps to be somewhat more similar than faces.
Accordingly, if one should be concerned to protect one's privacy and one's feelings, and such, it seems that the face might preferably be veiled.
In the face, surely, it is easier to read emotion and individuality than in a body.
Should not the face then, if one is concerned with concealment and privacy, be veiled? Is the face not more personal and revealing than the body? Does it not make sense then to consider it a proper object of concealment in a free person? Is one not entitled, so to speak, to privacy in the matter of one's thoughts and feelings, sometimes so manifest in one's facial expressions? However this may be, there are congruencies and dispositions which seem appropriate in given contexts.
Veils seem correct, and right, with the robes of concealment.
Too, seeing the lust of men to discern your features, and understanding what face veiling and unveiling means to them, tends to influence one's views of these matters.
I was terrified that such men see my face.
- (Slave Girl of Gor, Chapter )