As we fought, the men of Ar, fighting brilliantly for their city, their honor and loved ones, pushed back the men of Pa-Kur again and again, but from the interior of the cylinder swarmed more men of the Assassin.
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free women on Gor do not travel attended by only a single warrior, not of their own free will.
3
123
I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.
4
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If there were natural slaves and natural freemen, as the Older Tarl had insisted, those girls were natural slaves.
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Wherever the freemen of Ar retain their weapons, there you will find Marlenus".
14
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At the entrance of the cave two of his men had set a tharlarion lance, of the sort carried by Kazrak and his men, in a crevice obviously prepared to receive it.
19
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"men of Ar," I cried, "listen! Even now, in the streets below, Marlenus, your Ubar, fights for the freedom of Ar!" The men of Ar looked at one another.
19
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Instantly the Assassins and the men from Pa-Kur's horde fell upon the men of Ar, who stood firm under the sudden onslaught, meeting them blade for blade.
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While we touched blades almost as if involved in some bizarre ritualistic dance, there was the ringing, the clanging of fiercer swordplay around us, as the men of Pa-Kur engaged the men of Ar.
3
109
Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
3
121
I met many Goreans, other than Torm, in these weeks—free Goreans, mostly of the Caste of Scribes and the Caste of Warriors.
3
125
Apparently, after having been brought to the planet, they had simply been released, much as animals might be released in a forest preserve, or fish stocked free in a river.
3
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I did learn, casually from a Scribe, not Torm, that slaves were not permitted to impart instruction to a free man, since it would place him in their debt, and nothing was owed to a slave.
5
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Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.
5
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My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance.
5
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But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.
5
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I felt that, somehow, in spite of her collar, she was free.
5
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The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.
5
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"You are free," I said.
5
121
I realized that she had spoken to me as a free woman, using my name.
6
43
She was now clear of the roof, swinging free below the tarn, with the lights of Ar dropping rapidly into the distance below her.
6
45
I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
6
48
I passed the outermost cylinders of Ar and found myself free in the Gorean night, streaking for Ko-ro-ba.
6
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"I am from the free City of Ko-ro-ba".
6
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Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a Ubar's daughter.
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"I slipped free and ran under the wing and hid in the trees.
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"You are free now," I said.
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I held the daughter of the Ubar tightly as the insect righted himself, floating in the muck for a second, and then managing to free himself with his eight scrambling legs.
8
19
Now she, like all other members of the household of Marlenus, slave or free, would be subjected to the vengeance of the outraged citizens, citizens who had marched in the processions of the Ubar in the days of his glory, carrying flasks of Ka-la-na wine and sheaves of Sa-Tarna grain, s...
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She was now a free though submitted person, at large on the plains of the empire.
Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor
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If he does not accept her as a free Companion—and few men of Tharna will be in a mood to extend the privileges of free Companionship to a silver mask—he may then, without further ado, simply collar her as his slave, or if he wishes he may rejec...
19
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I wondered if they would understand that such an action was beneath the hand of a truly free man, and that the men who fought them—who had conquered on this windy and cold night, who had fought like larls in the darkness of the tunnels below, who had not sought the...
6
5
Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like T...
6
31
I rejoiced that in at least one city on Gor the free women were not expected to wear the Robes of Concealment, confine their activities largely to their own quarters, and speak only to their blood relatives and, eventually, the free Companion.
6
126
More commendably, a free woman may herself, of her own free will, agree to be such a companion.
6
127
And it is not unusual for a master to free one of his slave girls in order that she may share the full privileges of a free Companionship.
6
163
"You were free before," I said, "and you are free now".
8
13
Indeed, it was known that some free women actually envied their lightly clad sisters in bondage, free, though wearing a collar, to come and go much as they pleased, to feel the wind on the high bridges, the arms of a master who celebrated their beauty and cl...
14
179
But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coa...
15
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"Alas," she cried, "not even I can do that, but I can free your friends! I will free them! My freedom for theirs!" I appeared to think the matter over.
22
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I wondered on how many nights free women, bound captives, had been thrown to his feet to be assessed and purchased, how many free women had in his camp exchanged their rich garments for a camisk and an ankle ring on his chain.
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His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.
6
120
Gorean women, whether slave or free, know that their simple presence brings joy to men, and I cannot but think that this pleases them.
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free me!" "It is sedition to speak thus," said one of the men.
19
54
No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of ...
19
72
"men of Tharna," I cried, "and of the Cities of Gor, you are free!" There was a great cheer.
22
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And, of course, as the captors came gradually to care for their slaves, the desire to subjugate them became less, for few men long desire to subjugate a creature for whom they genuinely care, unless perhaps it be they fear to lose her should she be free.
23
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Angry men, armed with whatever tools of destruction they might find, prowled the land, evading the sorties of Tharna's soldiers, hunting for granaries to rob, for buildings to burn, for slaves to free.
6
167
"The four men who have been following me, men from Tharna," she said.
6
169
"I thought the men of Tharna revered women, alone perhaps of the men of Gor".
9
90
They seemed to me to be without energy, without pride, to be flat, dry, crushed men, men without self-respect.
18
145
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held.
19
57
This was done as if by plan and yet I knew that it was the spontaneous action of men who had come to respect themselves, the men of the mines of Tharna.
19
95
"Let it be done," said the men, first one and then another, until there was a sober chorus of assent, quiet but powerful, and I knew that never before in this harsh world had men spoken thus.
19
152
The power and knowledge of the Priest-Kings is perhaps beyond the comprehension of mortal men, or, as it is said on Gor, of the men Below the Mountains.
23
4
men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that w...
24
17
Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the ...
24
97
"Is it right that the men of Tharna lift their weapons against one another, men within the same walls?" "It is a sad thing," said Kron.
4
89
Coldly I took out my sword and hacked away the head of the beast and jerked the weapon free.
6
34
Indeed, in Ko-ro-ba, a woman might even leave her quarters without first obtaining the permission of a male relative or the free Companion, a freedom which was unusual on Gor.
Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor
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This harsh treatment, incidentally, when she is thought to deserve it, may even be inflicted on a free Companion, in spite of the fact that she is free and usually much loved.
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The privilege of using his name, of having it on her lips, is, according to the most approved custom, reserved for that of a free woman, in particular a free Companion.
1
63
Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amus...
1
64
Such contests, in which life is lost, used to be popular at Ar, for example, being sponsored in that city by the Caste of Initiates, who regard themselves as being intermediaries between Priest-Kings and men, though I suspect that, at least on the whole, they know as little about the P...
2
80
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the ...
5
143
"Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for enter...
7
58
I wondered how many men had fallen at her feet, how many men she had forced to sleep at the foot of the great stone couch, in the shadow of the slave ring, while she herself reclined on the pelts and silks of the master.
7
95
How acute would be the senses of Priest-Kings? Perhaps they would be relatively feeble, having grown accustomed to reliance on instrumentation; perhaps they would be other than the senses of men, sharper if only from a differing genetic heritage, capable of discriminating...
8
199
Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea...
12
128
To be sure I could not tell the two men, if they were men, apart.
27
337
"But their cities fell to warring," said the withered ancient one, "and these men in battle slew one another and with them died the secret as far as it was known among men".
30
169
As the War continued I became more and more impressed with the loyalty and courage of the men and women serving Misk, who for a bit of fungus and water and freedom were willing to sell their lives in one of the strangest conflicts ever fought by men
33
37
Behind the Initiates, standing, as befits the men of other castes, I saw men of a hundred cities, joined here in their common fear and plea to the denizens of the Sardar.
33
42
There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all...
1
35
I wished that I had had longer to visit the fair, for on another occasion at another time I should have sought eagerly to examine its wares, drink at its taverns, talk with its merchants and attend its contests, for these fairs are free ground for the many competitive, hostile Gorean c...
1
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They had thought to come to the Sardar as free women, discharging their obligation to the Priest-Kings.
1
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I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my free Companion, my Talena, foreve...
4
54
"What of the girl Talena, who was my free Companion?" "I hope you had a good trip," said Parp.
5
225
"When I am alone," she said, "I pretend that I am free, that I am a great lady, the Ubara of a great city, even of Ar—but when a man enters my chamber, then again I am only a slave".
5
228
"With me," I said gently, "you are free".
5
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"Nonetheless," I said, "with me you are free".
6
34
The position of the Tower Slave, in which Vika knelt, differs from that of a free woman only in the position of the wrists which are held before her and, when not occupied, crossed as though for binding.
6
35
A free woman's wrists are never so placed.
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36
The Older Tarl, who had been my mentor in arms years ago in Ko-ro-ba, had once told me the story of a free woman, desperately in love with a warrior, who, in the presence of her family was entertaining him, and whose wrists, unconsciously, had assumed the position of a sl...
6
39
It seems she thereafter, because of her embarrassment, would never see the warrior and he, at last, impatient and desiring her, carried her off as a slave girl, and returned to the city months later with her as his free Companion.
6
42
The position of the Pleasure Slave, incidentally, differs from the position of both the free woman and the Tower Slave.
6
44
More significantly, for the free woman's hands may also rest on her thighs, there is a difference in the placement of the knees.
9
6
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free Companions.
9
7
Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to a slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl.
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The point of this restriction, I suppose, is to draw a clearer distinction between her status and that of a free Companion.
Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor
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The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping,...
10
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Kamchak! free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she t...
2
174
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from r...
25
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"On our world," I said, "there is much talk of persons—and little of men and women—and the men are taught that they must not be men and the women are taught that they must not be women".
10
69
And indeed it was a free woman who cried those words, Dina, a free woman of Turia.
11
67
"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed.
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When I had done so, I faced her and said, "To a free woman, one who has been strong, one who has been brave, to Elizabeth Cardwell, to a woman who is both beautiful and free".
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3
Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object be...
8
78
Slave girls, on Gor, address all freemen as master, though, of course, only one such would be her true master.
8
133
The Gorean girl is, even if free, accustomed to slavery; she will perhaps own one or more slaves herself; she knows that she is weaker than men and what this can mean; she knows that cities fall and caravans are plundered; she knows she might even, by a sufficiently bold ...
8
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Moreover, even if she is never enslaved, she is familiar with the duties of slaves and what is expected of them; if she should be enslaved she will know, on the whole, what is expected of her, what is permitted her and what is not; moreover, the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not,...
9
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The free women, shamelessly to the mind of the rather prudish Kamchak, lowered their veils and threw back the hoods of their Robes of Concealment, enjoying the feast, eating with much the same Gorean gusto as their men.
23
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The latter would be driven before the warriors through the wagons, both slave girls and free women stripped and bound together in groups, providing shields against arrows and lance charges on kaiilaback for the men advancing behind them.
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I even saw some slaves leaving the compound, and these, though they were slave, were given the four stone of gold as well, perhaps the more to insult those freemen who had accepted the bribes of Tuchuks.
2
11
They are not as men and men, seeing them, would fear them.
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I did not wish to remain on the crest of the hill long enough to allow the left and right flanks of the Paravaci—rapidly assembling—to fold about my men and so, in less than four Ehn—as their disorganized, astonished center fell back—our bosk horn sounded ou...
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I issued orders swiftly and exhausted men poured from beneath and between the wagons to haul as many of the fallen kaiila and riders as possible from the wagons, that there might not be a wall of dying animals and men giving access to the height of our wagons.
2
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"But man must be free," I had said.
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It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the...
3
1
The Spear Gambling One, the Tuchuk, I might have slain with a cast of the heavy Gorean war spear; the others would have had free play with their lances.
3
114
Then, slowly, the four riders began to walk their mounts about the lance, watching it, right hands free to seize it should it begin to fall.
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It seemed scarcely had he passed than the kaiila had wheeled and charged again, this time given free rein, that it might tear at me with its fangs.
6
87
She was a captive female, and must, naturally, submit to her assessment as prize; she must also be, incidentally, examined for weapons; a dagger or poisoned needle is often concealed in the clothing of free women.
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"No!" Then she tried once more to free herself.
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27
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and ...
8
37
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap...
8
38
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed...
8
43
Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals.
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108
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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I was pleased to see her that much free.
Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor
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They are men who commonly have an extraordinary aptitude for the game but beyond this men who have become drunk on it, men lost in the subtle, abstract liquors of variation, pattern and victory, men who live for the game, who want it and need i...
16
111
The Gorean slave girl addresses all freemen as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress".
19
146
Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; ...
5
503
My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...
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14
The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securin...
20
71
"Oh free me! free me!" She lifted her hands to Cernus.
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"Noble Cernus," she whispered, "if you be my Master, free me, free me!" "Why?" asked Cernus.
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"I free you," said Marlenus, "but I free you that you may be at liberty to go where you will, and do what you wish".
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The combination was devastating, tormentingly attractive, an achievement so tantalizing and astoundingly exciting that I would not be surprised if it were adopted throughout Ar by the city's free women, rebellious, proud of their bodies, at las...
2
99
The other three men, hired swords, perhaps once of the Caste of Warriors, laughed at the frantic efforts of the tiny, sniveling wad of flesh to free itself.
2
112
Similarly, slaves, on the whole, do not address freemen by their names.
3
91
That a slave should play is regarded as an insult to freemen, and an insult to the game.
5
513
She still wore the brief, exciting leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl and, when striding the high bridges, her hair in the wind, she attracted much attention, not only, obviously, from the men, but from women, both slave and free.
9
48
Elsewhere in the room there were some freemen, Scribes I gathered though they were stripped to the waist, who were inking, using a silk-screen process, large sheets of layered, glued rag paper.
13
239
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of t...
15
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"freemen do not much interfere in the squabbles of slaves".
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The aisles and passageways themselves were jammed with men, and some free women.
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Kuurus, who would think little of men on the whole, yet could not despise such men as these, these of Ko-ro-ba.
2
65
Scarcely a quarter of an Ahn had passed and the men who drank in that room had forgotten, as is the way of men, that a dark one sat with them in that room, one who wore the black tunic of the Caste of Assassins, who silently drank with them.
2
88
Then, a moment later, four men, armed, brawny men, with a streamer of blue and yellow silk sewn diagonally into their garments, burst through the door and entered the room.
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189
Moreover, Kazrak had been one of the leaders of the forces that had preserved Ar in the time of its troubles with Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins; as the tale was now told in the streets, the men of Ar themselves, alone, had overthrown the invader; Kazrak seemed a living reminder that ...
5
218
Indeed, few of the Nest's humans were any longer slaves, save certain of the men and women who had betrayed us in the Nest War, certain men and women who had been reduced to such bondage because of transgressions, and certain others who had ent...
8
108
There were some men in the room, mostly men-at-arms but some staff members, a Metal Worker, two Bakers and a pair of Scribes.
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115
We have men of their world in the House and men of our world on their planet".
11
274
"Strong men," said Flaminius, "have always, even in the course of your own planet's history, taken the females of weaker men for their slaves".
11
276
"You are the females of weaker men," said Flaminius, "the men of Earth".
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319
It was interesting to me that Virginia Kent, as a woman, was apparently intensely aware of certain differences between Gorean men and the men of Earth.
12
83
He had been such that standing before men and lifting his hand, a thousand swords would be unsheathed in the sun, a thousand throats would cry his name, a thousand men would march or a thousand tarns would fly.
12
99
The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is narrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or a war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of the other tarns, permitting a swifter takeoff and providing a c...
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I was approached twice by men who had small scrolls to sell, reputedly containing important information on forthcoming races, the tarns to be flown, their riders, their times recorded in previous races and such; I supposed this would be little more than what was publicly available on t...
Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor
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It would carry, besides its oarsmen, who were all free, fighting men, some one hundred bowmen, and another hundred men, seamen, artillery men, auxiliary personnel and officers.
15
311
And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
3
288
But a Gorean slave addresses all freemen as Master, all free women as Mistress, though, of course, normally but one would own him.
18
485
Port Kar does not recognize the free Companionship, but there are free women in the city, who are known simply as the women of their men.
18
632
Now, with weapons and courage, perhaps for the first time, they were truly freemen, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate.
13
371
Two of the men lost the oars, and the free oars fouled those of other men.
10
193
I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if...
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340
And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their building...
3
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"With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar".
10
212
My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the Merchants.
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Those I did not wish, for one reason or another, to free, I sold to other captains, or exchanged them for slaves whom I might free, several of whom, when freed, also agreed to serve with me.
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free Companions, on the Feast of their free Companionship, commonly wear a garland of talenders.
15
590
Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to ...
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360
"I would free you," I said, "but I think they might kill free women, if they found them".
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395
I had friends among other girls in the house, who were also much free, though not as free as I.
4
82
How could I face freemen again, when in my own heart I could not even face myself? It was hot, and the coils of marsh vine about my throat were hot.
8
382
"You are freemen," I told them.
8
384
"You are freemen," I said, "no longer slaves".
8
518
"You are freemen," I said.
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98
It is the only city on Gor I know of which was built not by freemen, but by slaves, under the lash of masters.
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99
Commonly, on Gor, slaves are not permitted to build, that being regarded as a privilege to be reserved for freemen.
10
102
Some of the freemen in the house, particularly of the scribes, resented that the girl should have a position of such authority.
10
157
A captain next to me snorted, "Give the pulley-makers the wage of oar-makers, and sawyers will want the wages of carpenters, and carpenters of shipwrights!" All who do skilled work in the arsenal, incidentally, are freemen.
10
273
I used freemen on the rowing benches of my round ships, of which I had four, not slaves, as is traditional.
10
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The fighting ship, incidentally, the long ship, the ram-ship, has never been, to my knowledge, in Port Kar, or Cos, or Tyros, or elsewhere on Gor, rowed by slaves; the Gorean fighting ship always has freemen at the oars.
10
280
Not only did freemen render more efficient service at the oars, but, when they were given the opportunity, I found them eager to train with arms, and so hired masters to teach them weapons.
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48
This brings many more free fighting men, the oarsmen, into any action which might be required.
14
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The principal alternatives, under these conditions, open to the men of Cos and Tyros would then seem to be, first, to use free oarsmen, which was not, however, traditional on round ships, or, second, to increase the ram-ship escort for round ships.
14
327
The free crews of these ships, of course, were hopelessly outnumbered by my men.
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The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men.
Book 7. (30 results) Captive of Gor
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men seized them, and disarmed them of their sticks and switches, and then threw the girls to the stones at their feet, where they cowered, at the sandals of freemen, and then the men ordered them from the street.
7
402
A Gorean slave, incidentally, always addresses freemen as "Master," and all free women as "Mistress".
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1245
We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free
8
564
And her men I liked, in their rough cloaks and tunics, vital, supple, strong men, large-handed and laughing, men who worked with their hands and backs in the clean air and on the river.
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He seemed truly to be arranging for supplies, and his men, in their leisure, gambled and drank in the inns and taverns of the city, spending their time striking up acquaintances with men here and there, other tarnsmen, mostly men like themselve...
7
91
The bosk, unfortunately for Targo, had either broken free or been cut free.
8
115
"In many cities a slave girl is more free to come and go, and be happy, than a free woman".
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1057
I am Elinor Brinton, I cried to myself! She is no slave! She obeys no man! She is free! free! The girl who had worn the black, buttoning, bare-midriff blouse, the tan slacks, who had owned the Maserati, who had had three quarters of a million dollars, who had had a pentho...
8
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In any case, they would free me! I would be free! But I stood there on the grass, gagged, my hands bound behind my back, a choke leash on my throat, held by one of the girls.
11
267
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings".
11
1395
I wanted to be free of them! I wanted to be free of them! I did not need friends.
13
31
"I am afraid!" "Do you not understand," she whispered, her eyes filled with joy, "we are free! We are free!" "But what will we do?" I asked.
13
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free women are never punished, but she is not a free woman.
14
424
One justification, incidentally, aside from a greater splendor of garmenture, and a greater dignity, and such, for the discrepancy between the garmenture of the free woman and the slave is that the difference is designed to lessen the dangers of predation am...
14
426
Why risk one's life to obtain a free woman who might turn out to be as "ugly as a tharlarion" when one might, with no more risk, and perhaps less, because the pursuit is likely to be less fiercely pressed, pick up a lovely, easy-to-assess, well-curved slave whose selling price is almos...
15
320
She was free, obviously free.
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free women often treat such girls with great cruelty, and the mere word of a free woman, that she is displeased with the girl's work, is enough to have the girl beaten.
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103
How can a free woman even understand this? But I do not envy free women.
7
284
men look upon slave girls, of course, in a way which is quite other than the way they look upon free women.
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300
It is no surprise then that on this world men commonly, naturally, familiarly, immediately, innocently, taking such things for granted, not even thinking about it, it being part of their world, look largely upon women, even free women, in terms...
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These were forest girls, sometimes called panther girls, who lived wild and free in the northern forests, outlaw women, sometimes enslaving men, when it pleased them to do so.
11
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On the other hand, there is a Gorean saying, not voiced I suppose before free women, but heard among men, that all women are slaves, and it is merely that not all of them are in collars.
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They bring us to heel, teach us to obey, and to serve, and deliciously! I wished that I was on Earth again, where slave girls might go free, live luxuriously, pamper themselves, and even, should it please them, command the weak men of Earth.
14
421
Perhaps the free women wish that they, too, might similarly display their own beauty to men.
15
527
"The merchant," smiled Rask of Treve, "was persuaded to give her to me, free of all costs, as a token of his esteem for the men and city of Treve".
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294
There was, too, a free dancing girl, a beauty with high cheekbones, named Sandra, who much pleased herself with the men of Bosk, and earned much moneys in the doing of it.
5
51
These men, those in black tunics, and those, too, who had been instrumental in my capture, were the first men I had ever learned to fear.
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210
The men I now noted, held as I was, did not carry pistols and rifles, or even small weapons, such as my captor had had, or the silverish tubes, or wands, which had been carried by the men from the silverish ship.
8
178
I wondered what manner of men such men might be, that they could master such winged monsters.
11
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She is dressed, if dressed, in a certain way, which excites both her and men; she must obey; she is familiar with bonds and being made helpless, which, aside from the security involved, impresses the mastery upon her and is sexually stimulating; she is vulnerable, and she is, for most ...
Book 8. (30 results) Hunters of Gor
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Slave girls on Gor address all freemen as Master, all free women as Mistress.
2
504
Such men tend to be sold in women's auctions, closed to freemen, with the exception, of course, of the auctioneer and such personnel.
11
746
It seems that they, at least on my former world, Earth, claim to wish to relate to, and profess to esteem, as is prescribed for them, only weak men, soft men, little men, pleasant, sensitive, charming, predictable males, insecure, deferential, docile, accomm...
12
162
Might that one then not be the one who, in a tavern or brothel, he would order to a convenient alcove? And would it not be delightful should he discover in the alcove that the woman in his arms was none other than the former free woman, now no longer free, but now enslave...
20
76
"free us!" "free the women!" suddenly cried Sarus.
20
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I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft.
21
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"Let me be free to carry the tools for him as a free woman!" But I had bound her as a slave.
1
50
The girl laughed, and continued on, to fetch paga for freemen.
2
67
The oarsmen, as in most Gorean war galleys, are freemen.
2
493
Most labor is performed by freemen.
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72
"I will send men to free her, while I return to Ar," he said.
11
202
She would have known that she, a slave, was arousing freemen, masters, and this would have excited her, and this excitement would have been revealed in her body.
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706
Moreover, she knew that her beauty was now being surveyed, candidly, by two freemen.
13
162
These would be freemen, for the Rhoda was a ram-ship, a war ship.
14
233
It was few freemen who had ever looked, unbound, on the rites of panther girls.
15
54
To be sure, many men of Gor, though this is seldom brought to the attention of the free women of Gor, hold similar views with respect to all women, including their own, regarding all women as natural slaves, and maintaining that a...
15
423
Apparently the men of Tyros, and the panther girls, feared to free their hands.
19
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The men then, in a standard Gorean procedure knelt across their bodies, pinning the girls' arms to their sides, leaving their own hands free.
20
132
The two men working at the spear jerked it free of the wood and the body, impaled, was rudely thrown aside.
21
132
I then gave the key to Arn, that he might free the men of Marlenus.
2
46
Now, behind him, similarly clad in skins, their hair bound back with tawny strips of panther hide, were four or five other men, men doubtless of his band.
4
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"They told me that I was unfit for them, that I was completely, vulnerably, helplessly feminine, that I belonged at the feet of men! At the feet of men! Me! That was the sort of woman I was, that that would be my true happiness, that that was my natural and suitable desti...
7
270
There was no time to carry this prisoner back to where Rim, and my men, and Arn, and his men, waited for me.
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198
The two men, men of mine, who were going forth to relieve the guard, had their swallows from the bottle.
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Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a ca...
12
2
I had left my men at the camp of Marlenus, Arn, his outlaws, and the five men from the Tesephone.
12
155
They were picked men, and good men.
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190
"What happened," I asked, "to my men, and slaves?" "The men," she said, "with the exception of one, whose head wore the swath of panther girls, were chained in the hold of the Tesephone.
13
259
They had left eleven men behind at my camp, to pick up any of my men who, unknowingly, might return to the camp.
13
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It puzzled me, somewhat, that the men of Tyros had dared to approach the camp, with only some one hundred and fifty men.
Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor
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free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as ...
11
249
They were freemen, and freemen of Gor.
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77
Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy ...
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300
The girls wore their kirtles as they did not simply that the riches owned by Ivar Forkbeard might be well displayed, the better to excite the envy of others and brighten his vanity, but for another reason as well; the female slave, knowing she is slave, finds it stimulating to be exposed to the insp...
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18
About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms.
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Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was ...
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It seemed first a ghastly infection, a plague; then it seemed like a fire, invisible and consuming; then it seemed like the touching of these men by the hands of gods, but no gods I knew, none to whom a woman or child might dare pray, but the gods of men, and of the
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113
And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former free Companion, Talena, ...
1
117
And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his free Companion.
10
94
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; o...
18
20
I wrenched free the blade of the ax, as it slumped down, breaking it free from its jawbone and shoulder.
1
172
The morality of Earth, from the Gorean point of view, is a morality which would be viewed as more appropriate to slaves than freemen.
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217
To the bondmaid the meanest of the freemen of the north is her jarl.
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450
He had failed to capture me, and I had, eventually, managed to free Marlenus, his men and mine, and defeat Sarus.
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570
Male thralls are chained for the night in the bosk sheds; bondmaids are kept in the hall, for the pleasure of the freemen.
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119
"I belong to freemen!" Then, with the brazenness of a bondmaid, she, Thyri, who had been the fine young lady of Kassau, threw her kirtle up over her hips and, leaning forward, spit furiously at the thrall.
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132
"You have seen," said Ottar, to the Forkbeard, "that he has been bold with a bondmaid, the property of freemen".
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136
Bondmaids were, after all, the property of freemen.
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47
Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lift...
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82
When the war arrow is carried, of course, all freemen are to respond; in such a case the farm may suffer, and his companion and children know great hardship; in leaving his family, the farmer, weapons upon his shoulder, speaks simply to them.
10
333
The platform is instituted for the pleasure of the freemen.
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375
In the lowering of the woman, of course, a common consequence of her helplessness in the arms of a powerful male, her surrendering, her being forced to submit, she finds, incredibly to some perhaps, her freedom, her ecstasy, her fulfillment, her exaltation, her joy; in th...
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7
The thing, its head lifted, surveyed the assembly of freemen.
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"What will you pay us to cross our land?" asked one of the freemen of Torvaldsland.
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177
Various freemen then rose to address the assembly.
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286
"Do we, freemen of Torvaldsland," called out Svein Blue Tooth, "grant permission to the Kurii to traverse our land?" "No!" cried one man.
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230
Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with ...
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101
I managed to free myself from the crowd, and take a position on its fringe, between men and Kurii.
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The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the freemen of the nor...
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27
She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so...
Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor
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126
When free women and slave girls are chained together, it is common to respect the distinction between them by chaining them somewhat differently; in this case the free girl's hands were braceleted before her body, the slave's were fastened below her right le...
10
378
One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; <...
10
379
The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker ...
24
908
"free me! free me! There are men out there! free me, immediately! Are you a fool? Are you a fool? I demand it! free me, and hide me! You must! I demand it!" I decided that I would have her rebranded.
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83
Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,...
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98
The same girl who, joyously, would lasciviously writhe at the feet of the free male, begging him for his slightest touch, would often, confronted with male slaves, treat them with the contempt and coldness commonly accorded the men of Earth by their frustrated, haughty fe...
1
298
Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, ...
1
149
If you were free, and Gorean, you might be permitted by men to remain as you are, but you are neither Gorean nor free.
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159
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
2
157
Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
12
670
She would now have to do with freemen, with true men, she the slave.
3
211
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg...
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179
It is not unusual for a woman to fear her womanhood; what is less generally recognized is that many men fear their own manhood; they conceal their blood; they pretend it does not exist; it is even dangerous, in such a society, to suggest that men consider honesty in such ...
12
168
Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the s...
13
431
On Gor, they have at last the opportunity to meet men of a sort they had only dreamed of before, in furtive, secret dreams, dreams which thrilled and frightened them, virile, uncompromising, powerful men, masters of women, men before whom they ...
1
555
Sometimes inert, esteemed Gorean free women cry out in rage, not understanding why their companions have forsaken them for the evening, to go to the paga tavern; there, of course, for the price of a cup of paga, he can get his hands on a silken, belled girl, a slave; the ...
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178
Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, ...
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238
With you I am always free! We can be to one another only as perfect equals, free and perfect equals.
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410
Do you not remember me, me, Elizabeth Cardwell? Was she not the perfection of a free woman? How could one be more free than she? How could she have a "master"? How could one such as I have a "master"?" "Easily," I said.
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Why should I permit her even a shred of slave silk to hide behind? She seemed desperately determined, of course, still, before me, a former man of Earth, however foolishly, to present the postures, pretenses, and attitudes of a free Earth woman, apparently hoping that I would somehow c...
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227
She was in the presence of freemen.
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553
She is not permitted merely to excite, and flee away; when, at the conclusion of the swirling music, she flings herself to the floor at the mercy of freemen, her dance is but half finished; she has yet to pay the price of her beauty.
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131
She then, in misery, before the men, redoubled her efforts to free herself.
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481
Had men not found you beautiful they would have been quite content to leave you free.
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123
The collar, from behind, was put about her throat and locked; her head was jerked sideways as, by the collar chain, in the fist of one of Hassan's men, she was secured by the snap lock at the chain's free end, to the stake ring.
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139
But, after a time, he signaled to one of his men, and he, standing behind the free girl, who was on her knees, caught the switch on the backswing and, to her fury, took it from her.
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169
Many men like to think they are buying a fresh girl, one who was free.
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182
men respected free women; they desired, fought for, sought and relished their female slaves.
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302
Female slaves, cringing and obsequious, fearing freemen, often display contempt for male slaves.
24
465
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...
Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor
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189
It gave me pleasure to assume this posture before my master, who had full body rights to me; it gave me less pleasure, in the beginning, to assume it before freemen generally; yet, eventually, I did it naturally, and pleasurably; it is a position that not only makes the ...
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356
The first is that the slave's limbs and body are likely to be vital and shapely, for she is trained, exercised, dieted and rested, to keep her in prime condition for her master; she is, after all, a lovely animal and thus is subject to a management and care which, while appropriate for...
4
947
Afterwards, it might be mentioned, they are usually pleased with the piercing of their ears, and grow quite proud of this erotic dimension added to their beauty; not displeased are they either with the lovely adornments which their master may now order them ...
4
850
First, it seemed to me, incredibly, that this was fitting, what was being done to me; I had been proud and vain before men; what did I, truly, expect men, such men, men on a world such as this, to do about that? As his force struck me, I felt, ...
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423
free women, desiring to yield, pride themselves on their capacity not to yield, to maintain their quality and integrity; slave girls, on the other hand, are not permitted such luxuries; they, whether they desire to yield or not, must yield, and totally; perhaps free...
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123
It was done in this manner, to satisfy the desires of the free woman; to the astonishment of all in the court, when the chained slave girl crept on her knees, head down, to render gratitude to the free woman, the free woman had knelt beside her...
4
822
Suppose men, suspicious, would turn me over to free women, that my body might be, without compromise to my dignity lest I be free, examined by them.
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429
freemen do not take it lightly that a Kajira would dare to don the garments of a free woman.
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69
Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men...
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153
There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...
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979
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been...
4
639
Too, I did not think it was a camp of bandits, for the men in the camp did not seem of the bandit sort; not only did the cut and differing insignia on their tunics suggest a uniform of sorts, but the clear-cut subordination, the obvious organization and discipline which characterized t...
5
485
Twenty men may breech a wall held by a hundred men, if the twenty men but attack where the wall is defended by only two.
9
429
Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save man-haters, freaks, frustrates and Lesbians, and men w...
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178
Again I could not help my responsiveness to men, true men, Gorean men.
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It is, it seems, for men to command and women to obey, for men to dominate and women to submit, for men to claim and for women to yield.
3
531
That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th...
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783
The effect of the slave wine endures several cycles, or moons; it may be counteracted by another drink, a smooth, sweet beverage, which frees the girl's body for the act of the male slave, or, in unusual cases, should she be freed, to the act of the lover; slave girls, in...
4
188
Any slave girl, incidentally, addresses any free man as Master, any free woman as Mistress, though only one, of course, at a given time, is likely to be her true Master or Mistress.
4
504
It was not as though she were a free woman whose anger might have significance, might even issue in actions or words, free from the reprisals of discipline.
4
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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959
Gorean free women, no more than the free women of Earth, do not wear brands.
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"If you are free," said the captain, "you are rather pretty to be free".
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335
Had I had the choice as a free woman I would have chosen to love him; but the choice had not been mine, for I had been a slave; he had overwhelmed me, forcing me to love him, consulting not my will, before I could have chosen to do so; I who had desired to kneel before him of my own
9
2012
"I ask this free woman," said he, indicating Sandal Thong, "for whom I muchly care, to accept me in free companionship".
14
314
How could she have known my plan? "You think then he will free me, and free you, for having told him this truth".
15
309
"free me, Mistress," I begged, "free me!" "Do you truly think," she asked, "that you were brought to Gor to be freed and returned to Earth?" "I do not know why I was brought to Gor," I said.
18
110
She was free only a few hours, however, for, as an unescorted free woman, guardsmen swiftly went to her protection, prepared to help her safely home.
20
594
"free me, free me, Master!" I looked up at him, pleadingly.
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357
The slave is seen as a slave, and the free woman as a free woman.
Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor
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3
427
She is no longer permitted the lofty dignities and proud postures of the exalted free woman; they are now behind her; she no longer now needs be concerned with the protection of, and defense of, and maintenance of, her laboriously, monstrously constructed image, with all its prescripti...
15
498
Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals; sometimes they are captives, taken in actions against enemy cities or facilities; sometimes they have merely accrued the displeasure of powerful men or families; some slavers, working in gangs, specialize in the capture of free
21
278
"Some men may prefer neurotic, frustrated, rigid, imitative, conforming free women, mouthing the correct slogans and adopting the correct views on all matters, and eager to slander all who disagree with her, but other men, perhaps naive types, ...
30
95
The assassins take in lads who are perhaps characterized by little but unusual swiftness, and cunning, and strength and skill, and perhaps a selfishness and greed, and, in time, transform this raw material into efficient, proud, merciless men, practitioners of a dark trade, men
3
404
"Scandalous," said a free woman, to another free woman, who was passing near me.
3
470
She then becomes wild, and free, and sexual, and cares not that she might be scorned by the free either for her miserable condition or helpless appetites; she knows she will be what she must; she has no choice; she is slave.
6
663
"I free you! I free you!" she said.
15
539
A true liberation of women might be desirable, one which would permit them to be themselves, whatever they might be, a liberation that would free a woman to be feminine rather than constrict her to the imitation of manhood, a liberation without preset images and goals, wh...
11
110
"free these new men of their chains," I said, indicating those fellows who had recently joined us, from the western portions of the wall.
12
218
A ship caught in the ice, if not constantly cut and chopped free, its men on the ice itself, can become solidly frozen, arrested, in the ice; then it is at the mercy of pressures and bucklings; the ice, grinding, shifting, can shatter a ship, breaking it apart like a laci...
12
679
"I have learned to obey," she said, "and to call freemen 'Master.
14
315
She might now be beaten with impunity, and must obey freemen and women.
15
41
"I must be pleasing to all freemen!" Arlene struck down at her and, suddenly, they again were locked together, tearing and scratching at one another on the trodden turf.
15
492
It is hard for men to leave a woman who can be a good slave girl free.
21
334
"Do you find men now that you are a slave more or less interesting than when you were free?" I asked.
35
843
"Perhaps it would be well for you to ask permission before you speak in the presence of freemen," I said.
3
861
"Do you truly think now," pressed the dark-haired girl, furiously, "that you have rights, you foolish little thing? Do you think before such men you would have rights? These are not men of Earth!" The blond girl looked at her with horror.
11
44
He, with his men, some forty, who had taken refuge in the wooden hall, that serving as the headquarters of the wall commander, filed tensely between the ranks of my men.
11
60
The dispersal of my men, of course, would provide Sorgus and his men with their opportunity, under the covering fire of their tarnsmen aloft, to escape from the hall.
12
627
"Gorean men," I said, "you will learn are less tolerant of pretense than the men of Earth".
14
223
Sometimes men took the form of animals, and animals the form of men.
24
481
Perhaps women, after all, are not women, but only small, incomplete men, as many women and men, espousing the current political and economic orthodoxies on the matter, the required, expected views on the matter, would insist.
1
91
Perhaps that is why free women guard themselves so sternly against them.
1
93
Then she yields, as she must, and as a free woman may not, and her will is yielded in ecstasy to his.
2
158
What if she discovered that it were she, and not they, who must do now what was bidden, and with perfection? A woman who spoke in that tone to a Gorean man, if she were not a free woman, would find herself instantly whipped to his feet.
2
306
Her history as a free woman had terminated; her history as an embonded beauty had begun.
3
12
If she cannot free herself she counts as a catch.
3
20
The young women, who are free, if the rules permit, as they sometimes do not, commonly wear masks, that their modesty be less grievously compromised by the brevity of their costume.
3
64
It is for free individuals.
3
143
There are few free women in Tharna.
Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor
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6
502
Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she l...
22
8
The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon ...
33
121
No free woman, for example, would dare to place herself in such a position before Gorean freemen, unless perhaps, weary of her misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar.
31
86
"Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught ...
4
504
"We are free! free!" cried another.
4
516
"You can't just take us! We are free! free!" "We will call a guardsman!" cried another.
24
138
"free me! free me!" "I did not think you spoke to commoners," he said.
33
163
He tied them both on her neck and then took the free end of one and tied it to a thwart forward of her position and the free end of the other and tied it to the thwart aft of her position, thus fastening her between these two thwarts.
34
320
free women, in being free, command attention when they speak.
34
732
"In a sense you are free and in a sense you are not free," I said.
34
796
A Gorean free woman does not change her name in the ceremony of the free Companionship.
51
10
How flushed and excited was her face, how free of tension and tightness, how free of anxiety and stress.
4
633
She was in the presence of freemen.
5
490
Gorean men, on the whole, do not free slaves.
6
139
The oarsmen would be freemen.
6
734
Gorean men, despite her will, would free that slave.
13
18
Another advantage of this position is that it makes the slave decidedly uneasy, for she knows it is more appropriate for her to be kneeling or lying in the presence of freemen, unless she is engaged in serving them.
13
626
"Do you think men will ever free me?" she asked.
15
293
I struggled, trying to free myself of the four men who held me.
16
82
Most were impressed freemen.
18
47
men might then become, as many wished, as cattle and flowers, and be free to spend their days in placid grazing, until they died beneath the distant, burning, unsought suns.
23
87
How can men call themselves free when, each night, they must fear the coming of dusk?" "I do not understand," said Kisu.
32
1099
"You only wear them, and on the sufferance of freemen".
34
318
"If you are interested in this sort of thing from the Gorean viewpoint," I said, "freemen and women are usually attentive to the thoughts and feelings of one another.
44
158
"Are you not a slave girl in the presence of freemen?" I asked.
51
107
The brief garments of the female slave identify her instantly as slave, comply with recommendations of Merchant Law, brazenly display her flesh which is that of an animal for the delectation of freemen, impress upon her her lowly status, and, ...
57
34
"What fools men are to let any woman be free," he said.
18
31
Such small things, I think, may be scorned by those who do not understand the nature of war or men, and be seen as manipulative and laughable, and yet such a small commendation, when warranted and sincere, is worth more to some men than the material treasure...
19
192
It is he who must be a stranger to all men, and to whom all men must be strangers.
31
90
Or perhaps it is simply that the men of Gor, unlike the men of Earth, do not choose to unman themselves.
Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor
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7
455
The slave, so unfree in some senses, even to the collar, is in other senses the freest of women, free to love, free to be submitted, free to be uninhibited, wild and sexual, free to be her deepest, most...
16
230
"Yes," he said, "for you would still be free, and no free woman, because she is free, can truly compete for the attention and affection of a man as can a slave girl".
10
83
freemen were to me as master, as free women were to me as mistress.
7
933
"men," I said, "some men, and women who are much like men".
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3
I, a slave, unaccompanied by a free person, would wait until free customers were waited upon and served.
17
184
If they were free, I, though a free woman, could scarcely dare conjecture my fate!" Again I struggled, and was again held helplessly and perfectly in the steel.
20
111
I pressed through people, slave and free, who pressed about me, congratulating me, many trying to touch me, even free persons.
25
229
Then the women, bond and free, fell back, crying and frightened, for all women, whether slave or free, understand the whip.
27
365
"Can you not see that I am a free woman?" "I know that you are a free woman," I said.
27
380
"Can you not simply look upon me and see that I am free?" "Perhaps if I saw you in the robes of concealment, and veiled, being carried in a palanquin through the streets of Vonda by slaves," I said, "I would think you free".
2
27
"You had best form the habit early, of addressing freemen as 'Master,' Slave Girl," said the heavy man.
6
73
She did not, after all, wish to writhe beneath their whips, the lashed object of the fury and contempt of free women, jealous perhaps of the helplessness of the slave girl before men, her beauty and her collar.
6
112
They regard themselves, and correctly, I suppose, as the rightful property only of freemen and women, masters and mistresses.
12
451
Besides the concern of a slave girl is not with male slaves; their concern is with freemen, their masters.
13
224
"I am for freemen," she said, angrily.
13
242
I watched the robes of free women, passing in the street, the wagons, the now increasing throngs, the palanquins of rich men, some with lovely, briefly tunicked slaves chained behind them, attached to the palanquins, an affectation of display.
13
365
I recalled our earlier exchange, in which she had told me that she was not for the likes of me, but for freemen.
19
357
"I wish you well," said Borto to the two freemen.
24
134
free women are priceless, but it is the slave for whom men will pay.
27
242
"Does she not know she is in the presence of freemen?" he asked.
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161
"Please!" I wondered how often she, as a free woman, had tortured men, with a glance, with nearness, with the flash of a silken ankle, descending gracefully from a palanquin, with the tiny artful, disarrangement of a veil.
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315
I thought it well for her to accustom herself to calling freemen Master.
34
138
"She already addresses freemen as Master".
34
195
No wonder free women hate them; no wonder men pay for them, and demand them.
1
85
The second major ambiguity in the politics involved was the paradoxical combination of hostility toward men coupled with envy of men.
1
86
Most briefly put, on the level of primitive simplicity, such women hated men and yet wished to be men.
1
87
They hated men because they were not men.
4
55
Are they not all, truly, property, the property of men, as I had once wondered? Should they not all, truly, be owned by men? One of the girls, Lola, asked a question of the Lady Gina, to which she promptly replied.
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211
Is it not in the interest of slaves to prohibit kings from claiming their thrones? Then I was overcome with misery and guilt that I had even dared to think such thoughts! How wrong nature was! How wrong to be true to the deep themes of the animal kingdom! Did I truly need to be what I was? Why shoul...
7
216
I had been taught how to live, and if, in abiding by the denials and negativities of my world, I was made unhappy and miserable, what did that matter, truly, in the larger scheme of things? Who did I think I was? Did I think that I was important? Is a lion, or a man, truly, more important than an in...
Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor
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4
147
Sometimes, incidentally, free young men wear masks and capture a free woman, taking away her clothing and forcing her to perform as a slave for them.
4
660
"I am not a slave!" "See," she cried, moving her hip to throw back the shreds of the ripped Ta-Teera, "I am not branded!" "Only a slave would so expose her hip to freemen," said one of the men.
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182
She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...
11
406
"And men," she said, "or Gorean men, or men of a Gorean type, are the masters".
21
153
What true man, in his vitality, does not want a beautiful woman as a slave? Two major differences between the men of Earth and the men of Gor are, first, that the men of Gor are perfectly straightforward and open about this and, secondly, that such wom...
22
233
"I would have thought," I said, "that it would be men such as you who might strike terror into the hearts of men such as they, that it would be men such as you whom groveling slave girls, wary of the whip, might fear even more to displease than they".
4
477
Thus, one supposes, when some free women meet a free male, even under the most innocuous and benign of conditions, at banquets, in the market, at public gatherings, at the song dramas, and so on, they must realize, doubtless uneasily somewhere beneath their ...
23
213
It was the free woman, or the woman who had been free, who had been ordered from the crowd on the wharves of Victoria.
24
274
To the Gorean free woman the joys of the slave girl, though they may be despised and disparaged, are at least culturally not unknown, and are the envy of such free women.
24
475
Surely she must be a free woman! She must be free! She was from Earth! But could everything that my blood, my instincts and impulses told me be wrong? But it must be, else a civilization structured upon, and predicated upon, pathologies must disintegrate and perish.
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201
Thus, strangely, while least free, she is most free.
2
121
Too, is it not a rich joke for the men of Ar that more than a thousand of the free women of Vonda adorn their pleasure racks, fastened down like slave girls, their use available for a tarsk bit to the passers-by?" "Yes," I smiled, "it is a rich joke".
4
118
This, aside from having such utilities as reminding the girls that they are total slaves and giving pleasure to the men who look upon them, is supposed to make them, rather than free women, the desiderated objects of capture and rapine.
4
650
"I am the Lady Tendite, a free woman of Vonda!" One of the men then was drawing her hands behind her back.
4
694
"And," said the leader, "in virtue of your collar, and in anticipation of your impending enslavement, you will address us and behave towards us as a slave towards freemen".
21
25
She knows that she has value, and is admired by men, and even lusted for, and that she is envied, and even hated, by free women.
21
50
"Tasdron spoke of it in the tavern to freemen," she said, "and I, and other slaves, overheard him speak".
21
281
The readiness and excitability, indeed, the almost helpless sexual vulnerability of the slave girl, is something for which the men of Earth, whose experience has been limited to the free females of Earth, are totally unprepared.
22
244
I saw freemen impressed into the service of loading the goods of the town onto the galleys of the thieves.
30
24
It was too bad, I thought, that that discovery had first been made by pirates and not by strong freemen, before whom pirates might quail.
30
25
But freemen, I knew, were often too simple or ignorant to gather up the unclaimed booty which might lie about them, even though such booty might beg piteously to serve, and to be taken into their homes, to be treasured.
1
342
Gorean men, as men of Earth seem seldom to do, prize high intelligence in women.
11
225
Would you not like some delicious Earth woman as your total slave? If so, how are you so different from the brutes of Gor, who do with us as they wish? It is not our fault if, for whatever reasons, the men of Earth seem determined to turn us into men, and deny to us our p...
11
353
We would remain men and women, only then, perhaps, mutilated and sickened men and women, useful tools in the schemes of others, of cunning and pathological frustrates, themselves often as confused and miserable as the uncritical creatures they ...
17
58
How can thoughts be good which make men miserable and weak? How can thoughts be wrong which make men great and strong? I am a slave in your arms.
21
306
How can I take my place in the order of nature if men will not treat me as they wish? That is what I want, to be treated, even with insolence, as men wish.
24
307
The men of Earth are not true men.
24
314
"Females," she said, "are the natural property of men such as Goreans, not of men such as those of Earth.
24
315
It is men such as Goreans, and not men such as those of Earth, who recognize the meaning of our beauty and simply take us, and make us serve them.
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11
It would have seemed simple enough, then, to have brought enough men into the stronghold, posing as the men of Ragnar Voskjard, to take Policrates by surprise.
Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor
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Quote
20
1586
It is they who have been found exciting enough, and beautiful enough, and desirable enough, to be sought, captured and chained; it is they who have been marked slave; it is they who have been bid upon in a competitive market; it is they who have been purchased, to serve and please; it is they, not <...
20
1589
How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his...
18
418
She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which freemen may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines her head submissively as she passes freemen; s...
20
2154
Sometimes, perhaps, twisting on her couch at night in frustration, the free woman may dimly sense what it is to be an aroused slave, a woman so much at the mercy of men, and so precious and beautiful to them; the free woman clenches her fists and moans; the ...
20
527
Coins, and personal items, and such, are usually, by free persons, carried in pouches, which are usually concealed within the robes of a free woman, or slung about the waist, or shoulder, of a free man.
20
197
She must now fear freemen and free women.
20
403
"He intends to purchase fighting slaves," said Miles, "and then free them, and organize matches among freemen.
21
468
"To other girls in bondage, to freemen, to free women, to male slaves, should you encounter them, to all, that is how you will be known, simply as 'Beverly'," I said.
21
504
It would be a very foolish slave who would carry herself before a free woman as she is expected to carry herself before freemen.
21
545
Too, she will be regarded with repulsion and horror by scandalized free women, with amusement by men, slave or free, who enjoy inspecting and appraising her publicly exhibited lineaments, and with contempt, as a wort...
18
408
The garment of the slave is usually brief, distinctive and sexually exciting; it is designed to show her to men; the garments of the free woman, on the other hand, are commonly multitudinous, concealing and cumbersome; they are designed to prot...
20
49
Similarly it was not one of those parties in which a given number of slaves must dance within a circle of freemen, of equal number, with whips, stripping themselves to the strokes of the whips and then dancing towards the men.
20
729
The men, save I, rose as one to their feet, for Gorean men commonly stand when a free woman enters a room.
20
1224
"I shall, of course, need strong men, men from the various towns, men tried and true".
20
1640
Let it be gone! This is Gor! Gor! What was she to you, that tart I once was, dear Master, that you should have deferred to her? Did you never once point to the floor at your feet, and tell her to kneel? Why not? What mistakes the men of Earth make with the women of Earth!...
8
125
Incidentally the reservations held by some Gorean seamen pertaining to free women on board, also, interestingly, do not hold of free women who are captives.
18
685
"No, my Master," she whispered, "I do not mean either merely that he induced in me the spasm submissions of the bond girl, or that he enforced upon me the fullness of the humiliating, ecstatic slave orgasms, so far beyond anything attainable by the free woman, to which any free
19
9
Secondly, they were free persons, and free persons on Gor may do much what they please.
19
118
Most simply she sees it as a house, and knows it, as a house in which she is a slave, whereas the free woman sees it and knows it as a house in which she is free.
19
120
The free woman looks into a slave kennel but she, presumably, has never occupied it, the helpless prisoner behind its bars; the free woman may see chains but she, presumably, has never worn them; she may see the whip but she, presumably, has never felt it.
19
966
Those slavers who are natively Gorean expect arrogance and insolence from Gorean free women, who, after all, are free, but they do not find it acceptable in Earth women, whom they regard for the most part as uncollared slave stock.
20
596
More than one free woman has been taken trying to free herself from such platforms, or has been tripped by them, or slowed, perhaps dragging one, absurdly enough, behind her, still attached to an ankle.
20
600
Sometimes a free woman, the platforms discarded, will lift her ornate robes to the thigh, to free her legs to run.
20
634
One interesting difference between the Gorean free woman and the Earth woman is that the Gorean free woman is well aware of slavery and knows that it exists.
20
1815
Who would not want one or more? How is she then, this readily available, branded, collared slut, this animal, so very different from a free woman, to be viewed? She, the Gorean male feels, and the Gorean free woman surely agrees, is appropriately to be regarded as substan...
20
2136
free, she is enslaved, the prisoner of inhibitions, artifices and conventions; enslaved, she is free, liberated to the self-fulfillment of her deepest nature.
20
2137
free, she is enslaved; enslaved, she is free.
20
2153
The passions of the female slave are a mystery to many free women who, unaroused and sexually inert, never collared and owned, cannot even understand them; to most free women, of course, the passions of the female slave are not so much a myster...
21
408
Did she not know she was neck-chained to a man's slave ring? "Suddenly," she said, "I see what you are doing! How amusing for you, to put what was once my own name on me as a slave name! How droll! How helpless his girl! How delightful, for that insensitive, uncaring, imperious beast, the master! Ho...
21
508
What could a man see of interest, the free woman might ask herself, in such a frightened, confused, groveling drab? But, of course, too, the free woman is well aware of the appearance and demeanor of the slave when she is not accosted by them, or brought within the immedi...
Book 17. (30 results) Savages of Gor
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Quote
14
265
This is quite different from the mental set taken by the free woman to the furs, of course, with attendant deleterious consequences for the free woman, in so far as any woman could be called free who is not surrendered and owned.
13
1300
"All freemen are my masters," she said, "as all free women are my mistresses".
2
351
This is perhaps because many male silk slaves are chosen to be male silk slaves not because they are weak or like women, but because they are not; it is only that they are men, and often true men, who must serve women, totally, in the same fash...
13
1071
"You see," I said, "you were still regarding yourself, implicitly, at least at the moment, as a free woman, or, perhaps better, more narrowly, as retaining at least one of the rights of a free woman".
17
300
I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held befo...
1
189
In a few Ahn, near dawn, men would come to the room and free her, and then, later, put her to work with the other women.
1
618
"I bring you greetings, too," said Samos, "from the freemen of Port Kar.
5
156
As a free woman she doubtless hated slave girls, the lascivious, shameless sluts who drove men wild with such desire for them.
7
90
It was fitting that slave girls lived in terror of freemen.
13
1280
It is little wonder that most men find the free woman, in her inertness, her ignorance and arrogance, boring.
14
272
The same frigidity which may be accounted a virtue among free women, figuring in their vanity competitions, how well they can resist men, is commonly among slaves an occasion for the imposition of severe discipline; it can even constitute a capital offense.
1
1132
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; ...
13
1004
Please, Master, open me—please open me, please open me, Master—please open me, Master—for the pleasures of men!" "Very well," I said, and then, as she cried out softly, I opened her, a nameless slave, who had once been Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, from Pennsylvani...
14
733
"It, at least," she said, "gives men an excuse not to be men".
1
113
On behalf of the nose ring, too, it should be mentioned that among the Wagon Peoples, even free women wear such rings.
1
119
It is easy to see why free women on Gor do not wear them, and why they are, commonly, only put on low slaves.
1
616
My lance, in such matters, so to speak, was free.
1
950
At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife.
3
21
"That one," said the man, indicating the girl at the wall, "was formerly free.
3
26
It is usually felt that, after her capture, there is little point in permitting any possibility that she might be confused with a free woman.
6
146
Then, in an instant, in their chains, they scrambled in the mud after the garbage, twisting and shrieking, caught and restricted in their chains, scratching, and rolling and fighting, for the least of the tidbits cast to them by a free man.
7
33
This is presumably in deference to the delicacy and sensibilities of free women.
7
34
The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world.
7
41
Patronize the house of Ram Seibar! free drinks! No purchase necessary!" I felt a small tugging at my sleeve, and then felt my arm delicately held.
8
167
They seem to be a cross between the garments of a free woman and those of a slave".
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"Are these the garments of a free woman or of a slave?" asked the auctioneer.
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But she could not free herself from his grip.
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My blade was free from my sheath before his knees began to sag.
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"Do you think free women would be so rudely stripped and brazenly displayed? We, and these others, are on sale! Do you doubt that we are slaves? See our brands!" She turned her left thigh to the central platform.
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The mobility afforded by the kaiila and the abundance of the kailiauk doubtless made this choice possible, the choice of the widely ranging hunter, the proud and free warrior, over the farmer, denied distant horizons, he who must live at the mercy of the elements and in b...
Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor
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In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes a...
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This is more seldom the case with Gorean free women than with the free women of Earth, but it is certainly not unknown amongst Gorean free women.
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Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free a...
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It might also be mentioned, however, that there is a market for handsome male slaves which caters to rich free women, and, to a lesser extent, to rich freemen.
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Too, the intimate and fantastic pleasures they can give men are well known, at least among freemen.
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It has been my considered judgment that Canka, in doing this, had hoped to draw attention to the location, that he hoped by this device to attract others to the spot, who might free the lad, or perhaps to mark it for himself, that he might later, accepting exile and outla...
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Enslaved, you are free, interestingly and paradoxically, to be free".
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Whereas a free woman may often make a man angry with impunity, she being lofty and free, this latitude is seldom extended to the slave.
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For an instant I could not free it of the press of the animals and then I wrenched it free.
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free women sometimes buy hair for wigs or falls, and, although the hair they purchase is always certified as coming only from free women, there is little doubt that it is often taken from female slaves.
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Some Goreans think of the free Companionship as being a form of contract slavery; this is not, of course, precisely correct; on the other hand, if more women took that definition seriously, I have little doubt but what free companionships would be far more r...
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4
The hair that bound them hung free before the wrists, dangling from them, in jagged strands, marking where it had been hastily cut free from the hair of the girl before her in a holding coffle.
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Also, you being a slave, too, perhaps you have been denied the use of women or deprived of their caresses, or perhaps, not being free, you have not been permitted to use them with the same liberal audacity as a free man, or as frequently as you might desire.
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"If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act be...
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I wondered if Iwoso had speculated on why their heads had been left uncovered, or why we had not enclosed one girl completely and left the head of the other free, why we had treated the slave and the free woman identically.
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This kind of difference in binding, or shackling, in which the free woman wears easier or more comfortable bonds than the slave, is in deference to the status of the free woman.
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Many free women, knowing how such things are viewed by Gorean men, fear them more than the brand and collar.
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"I am the rightful property of freemen, not slaves".
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"Too," said the girl, "we are better at certain things than free women, such as serving and pleasing men".
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I am above them! Girls such as I belong to and are for freemen!" "I see," I said.
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"At one time," she said, "in spite of being a proud free woman of Ar, I felt the desire for the companionship of men".
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"I had thought, when free," she said, "that if ever I fell slave, men would put me frequently to their pleasure".
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"You surely, as a former free woman," I said, "have known the touch of men, their arms".
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The manner in which the men wore their yellow scarves, I noted, gave maximum free play, if they were right handed, to their weapon hands.
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Many men, as they are of their own people, regardless of what would be in the best interest of the women, would fight to free them.
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Too, sometimes men who desire to own slaves but are themselves too weak to do so, or, because of rigidities or cripplings, are psychologically incapable of doing so, will, out of envy, jealousy and spite, fight to free them, in order to deny others the pleasures which the...
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"It takes some men two or three days to free themselves from the pole," I said.
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"And I think it is obviously true," she said, "that men desire us, treasure us, and love us, as well as command us, in ways that a free woman can never understand or know".
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"free persons, men, at least, for example, if need be, are expected to accept great hazards on behalf of their cities.
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Surely the Gorean free women have little doubt as to the nature of the applications to which masters put slaves, and, indeed, do they gossip righteously and indignantly, and enviously, of much else amongst themselves? And the girls brought from Earth will for the most par...
Book 19. (30 results) Kajira of Gor
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Was it then because I was free? Were Gorean men spoiled for free women by those collared, curvaceous little sluts they had crawling about their feet, desperately eager to please them? Given such luscious alternatives it was natural enough, I su...
1
316
Surely I had met many boys, and men, but this was the first time I had ever been so acutely aware of the difference, this special sort of difference, between women and men, or between women and certain sorts of men, and, in partic...
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535
"I am free," I cried to myself, "I am free! free!" But I was half naked and my hands were braceleted behind me.
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A consequence of this ordinance from the point of view of a female slave is that she cannot now even permit herself to be taken for a free woman by accident; her bondage is always manifest; it is helpful from the man's point of view, too; he always knows the status of the woman to whom...
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I wondered if freemen and free women ever met in such places, for affairs.
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I, though a free woman, had been face-stripped before freemen.
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"Accustom yourself to calling freemen 'Master' and free women 'Mistress,'" he said.
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To be sure, the men, being men, and no free women being present, had had the supper, for their pleasure, served to them by beautiful, revealingly clad women, collared slaves.
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Did she not know that true men repudiated their natural sovereignty, forsook their manhood and conformed to prescribed stereotypes? Was she not familiar with the political definitions? I wondered then if there might not be another sort of true men, true men,...
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"Is there more happiness in a society in which all are free," she asked, "than in one in which some are not free?" "I do not know," I said.
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Perhaps he did not kiss me because I was free, or, I added, in my thinking, not truly understanding the qualification, because he thought I was free.
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I am free! Of course, I am free! "Go now to the slave ring," a voice seemed to say to me.
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"No free woman, unless a capture, may proceed beyond this point unless she is in the charge of a free man who is responsible for her and has a current license for her.
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This is a device to control the movements of free women in the house and a precaution against the attempted escape of slave girls pretending to be free women".
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It is common, too, of course, more generally, for them to kneel whenever they find themselves in the presence of a free person, for example, if they are in a room and a free person enters.
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"I am free! I am free!" "Of course you are," he said.
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"Where you come from," she said, "do slaves not address free women as 'Mistress'?" "I am a free woman, too," I said.
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"Do you believe that slaves should serve free persons," he asked, "or that free persons should serve slaves".
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But I was a free woman! On Gor, as on Earth, free women were seldom, if ever, no matter what they did, punished.
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"I am a free woman!" "If you are a free woman, and are not from this area," said one of the slaves, "I think you should flee.
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For whom could a man such as he entertain respect but a free woman? I thought of the noble, serene, contumacious, insolent, lofty free women of Gor.
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"You are not a free woman, and even when you were a free woman, in some trivial legal sense, you were a natural slave, a woman who in her heart was a slave, a woman not only fit for the collar but one who belonged in it".
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"Now, free me!" "Why should I free you?" he asked.
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I supposed it was difficult for mere female slaves, in their scanty garments, and in their lowly station, not to be excited by rich, powerful, handsome, resplendent freemen, so far above themselves.
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To be sure, if slaves were not available, then it was understandable how men might relate to free women.
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"It is better, I think, too, that free women not see how they look at men and how they move before them".
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At the approach of the freemen, Hermidorus and Drusus, they would immediately position themselves, usually with their knees wide, kneeling back on their heels, their heads up, their hands on their thighs, in the position I had come to understand was that of the pleasure ...
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To be sure, the young men who had captured me had not been loath to subject me to lengthy, appreciative scrutinies that would have been more appropriate, I feared, to a slave than a free woman.
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One might note, in passing, that the glances men of Gor cast upon women seem seldom to be surreptitious, even those cast upon free women, but tend rather to be good-humored, good-natured, direct, frank, honest, and healthy, and are not unoften ...
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To be sure, Gorean men, as would any man, tend to look differently on free women and slaves.
Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor
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No longer could she compare herself only with free women, but must now compare herself with slaves, as well; indeed, she should no longer think to compare herself with free women, at all, as she was now a slave; she should not even dare to harb...
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I did not know what true men were until I came to Gor, and was put in a collar! Here I am disciplined and trained, here I am owned and fulfilled! Here I am happy! I pity even my free sisters of Gor, who are so far above me, for they cannot know the overwhelming joys and f...
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Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re...
1
370
"There is no more free woman left in me! The free woman is gone!" "Is it true?" he asked.
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It had been within the context of his capture rights that she had, as a free woman, of her own free will, pronounced upon herself a formula of enslavement.
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The free woman may speak whenever and however she pleases, for she is free.
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"Herewith," she said, "I, though a free woman, gladly and willingly, and of my own free will, dare to grant you my favor!" She then thrust the light scarf through an eyelet on the collar of my robes and drew it halfway through.
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One must understand, first, that they are given by free women and of their own free will.
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In support of this interpretation are such considerations as the fact that these favors, in these games, are bestowed by females on males, that, generally, at least, strong, handsome males seem to be the preferred recipients of such favors, that there is competition among the females in the distribu...
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The free woman, after all, is a free woman, and the slave is a slave.
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"Do you think I do not know when a woman's body is ready to give pleasure to a man—even that of a free woman?" Such receptivity is rarely achieved in so short a time with a free woman.
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"This farce is an insult to free women!" cried the free woman in the audience, she in the blue of the scribes.
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"And I find it an insult to free women!" said the free woman.
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"What you know nothing of," said the free woman to her, "is of being a free woman, meaningless slut".
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"As she seems to be free," I said, "I will claim her, she in the modality of the free captive".
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43
Similarly her beauty has not, as yet at least, as you can see, been graced by the imprinting upon it of some delicate emblem indicative of the status of property, some device recollective of the unmistakable, transforming kiss of the blazing iron! As advertised, as proclaimed, as announced earlier, ...
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Not only is a slave different in fact from a free woman, but they appear different from a free woman, and this difference is easy to detect.
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It is one thing to look upon a woman as a free woman, when she is a free woman, and another thing to look upon her as a slave, when she is a slave.
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But could she free her small wrist from his sudden grip, as he might stand, and force her to her knees before him, and then slowly down, to her back? It is pleasant for strong men to be served by slaves.
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They were, in effect, good-will and promotional devices, donated to the festivities, for the pleasures of freemen, by the houses of various slavers.
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We shall then, still freemen, make our way to the fair.
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"free the men, take the gold, burn the camp, but do not touch that packet!" "Oh, yes, this," I said, lifting the leather packet which I had taken from the farther alcove.
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"Many free women believe they can have anything they want, merely by asking for it, or demanding it," I said, "but now you see that that is not true, at least not in a world where there are true men".
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"And thus," she said, "do we free women show men our modesty".
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Assuredly the crowd was composed mostly of freemen.
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"I am a free woman! I am not afraid of men!" I smiled to myself.
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"It is you who are disgusting," said one of the men to the free woman.
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"Though I may be a slave in my heart," cried the Brigella, leaping to her feet, "I am surely not a legal slave and thus, as yet, am bond to neither you nor any man!" "Many are the slaves who do not yet wear their collars," said Boots, meditatively, and then, suddenly, turned about and, to the amuse<...
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"Are you?" asked one of the men in the audience to the free woman in the audience.
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He then continued on his way, muttering about Brigellas, expenses, free women, fate, elusive wagons and the woes that sometimes afflict honest men.
Book 21. (30 results) Mercenaries of Gor
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There was no reason as far as I could tell that the men of Gor, if acculturated similarly to those of Earth, if subjected to the same debilitating indoctrinations, the same negativistic educations, the same unnatural engineerings, the same calculated underminings of manhood, the same i...
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166
It is customary for Gorean slaves to address free women as "Mistress" and freemen as "Master".
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In passing one might note that the slave addresses all freemen as 'Master' and all free women as 'Mistress'.
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"You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men.
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men will pay gold for her; men will fight for her; men will even kill for her.
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27
Where there are no men, or no true men, to protect them, feminine women will, in a grotesque perversion of nature, be controlled, exploited and dominated by more masculine women, sometimes monsters and mere caricatures of men.
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In a moment Feiqa, vital and sensuous, liberated now from the fear of the free woman, and having felt the whip, in that perhaps being reminded of what might be the consequences of failing to please free persons, addressed herself once more, eagerly and joyou...
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I did not want free women attacking the girl in rage, and perhaps tearing the objects free.
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But then, again, a free woman is a free woman, and I supposed that should count for something.
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16
Nearby, to her right, and my right, only feet away, almost at our elbows, some sitting, some lying down, crowded together, chained, huddled, in the half darkness, illuminated by a tiny lamp on the wall, against one wall of the Semnium, was a large group of choice free women
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Such a decision may be made of one's own free will, but it cannot be revoked by one's own free will, for, after it is made, one is then helpless to alter or influence one's new condition in any way.
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She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, thou...
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In any contest of desirability the free woman must always lose out to the slave, and if she does not seem to do so, then let her be enslaved, and see how she then, suddenly, in a moment, competing then with her former self, becomes ten thousand times more desirable than s...
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It is normally only free folks among free folks who are lonely, each so separate from the other.
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"What does a free woman do," she asked, "when she learns she is a slave?" "You are free," I said.
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"The self-enslavement decision is an interesting one," I said, "for it is a decision which is freely made, being made by a free individual, but, once made, it is irrevocable, for the individual is then no longer free, but only a property".
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A common form of slave tunic, hanging loose and free about the body of the slave, is free of the right shoulder and held at the left shoulder by a disrobing loop.
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And there are few things which more impress her bondage on a slave than realizing that her speech is ultimately at the discretion of free persons, that she may not speak without the permission, either implicit or explicit, of free persons.
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To be sure, all freemen are, in a sense, to her as master.
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Even though they are free they are apparently not above reminding their men that they are females.
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Too, it might be hard for her to remain now with the wagons, after her mannish garb had been stripped from her, and after she had been so easily and summarily bound, and put publicly before the freemen and women of the Alar camp, as though she might have be...
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men are commonly disappointed in free women, and almost certainly if they have experienced the alternative.
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Some of the men, in their intense excitement, I feared, had been somewhat stronger, or ruder, with her than might have been appropriate for a free woman.
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"Begin to call freemen Master," he said.
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75
Some men will pay higher use rents for a free prisoner".
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"Her next four beatings, at given intervals, she received from the four fellows who had been her bearers formerly, now freemen".
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"Few men will trouble themselves to steal a dried crust of bread, perhaps even at great personal risk, if a free banquet is set forth for them.
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"The better for themselves, the better for men, the beasts, and the better for noble free women, whom they can then no longer pretend to be like".
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The work is commonly done by male slaves, supervised by freemen.
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The free woman, Ludmilla, proprietress of this establishment, and of several others on the street, had some concept, it seemed, as to at least one way in which female slaves might be presented before men.
Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor
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Could she believe what she had done, and said? How she had begged and squirmed, and acted not at all like a free woman, but like a slave? How she had behaved in his arms? How could she, a free woman, have acted like that? But perhaps she was not truly, ultimately, a
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Doubtless there were men here, too, if not as on Earth, men who might be fretful, petty and weak, men the very sight and smell of which I might find offensive, men whose appearance and least touch I might find literally sickening, men...
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On Earth I had scarcely dared hope that such men might exist, so unabashed, so untrammeled, so powerful, so free, so sexual, such godlike men, men as they could be, men as they should be, true men, but here on Gor th...
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55
Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least <...
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I had not even dared to show myself thusly to common men, to banal, safe, inoffensive, trivial, conquered men, men of the sort with whom I associated, men of the sort I knew.
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510
I wanted the mightiest men, the most powerful men, the most glorious men, the most ferocious, grandest men.
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I did not want men who were like me, I wanted men who were like men, men in whose arms, ravished, loving, crying out, overwhelmed, mastered, I could be myself, and find myself.
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86
I had danced hitherto only before Teibar, and his men, at the library, and once or twice before the men in the house of my training, and, of course, here, in my lessons, before some men, in particular, the musicians, and some men from the house...
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The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated ...
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The "free gang" consists of freemen who are in the hire of a contractor who rents their services, and his own, say, to various cities, organizations, and groups.
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"I am free to all his men," I said, "and you are one of his men".
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For example, when I was in Argentum it was proper for me to use the expression "Master" to the men of Tyrrhenius, and indeed, to all freemen, but the expression, "my Master," if used, would have been appropriately, suitably, addressed only to Tyrrhenius.
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Such a pretense, however, can be maintained with many men for at least a few minutes, and with some men for an hour or so, which is generally more than enough time for the purposes of the master, and the master's men, unobtrusively, are usually near at hand.
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Strictures of this sort, of course, do not apply to free persons, such as free women.
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Slave girls seldom object to such treatment, vulgar though it might seem to free women, and even free women, I think, in spite of the scandal they profess to feel in its wake, do not really mind it.
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If a "free woman," that is, one legally free, were to publicly perform such a dance on Gor she would probably find herself in a master's chains by morning.
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Indeed, one of the major differences between the slave and her free sister is that the slave is generally far more sexually fulfilled than her free sister.
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Supposedly these were free work chains, "free" in the sense of not utilizing slaves.
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Most such work is generally done by the free labor of a given community, though this "free labor" may, upon occasion, particularly in emergencies, be "levied," the laborers then contributing their labor as a form of special tax, or, if you like, as having been "conscripte...
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Two forms of work groups not localized to individual cities are the "free gang" and the "free" chain.
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On the other hand, it usually tends to have a far more limited pool of skills than that of the "free gangs" and, accordingly, it is usually employed in ruder, less demanding labors, or even in labors which, because of their arduousness, or their onerous nature, would be distasteful to ...
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No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom.
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"To free me?" "Do you think you should be a free woman?" he asked.
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The free woman was noble and glorious, was the lofty equal of the free man, and might even share a Home Stone with him.
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Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not a girl has been "opened" for the uses of men.
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313
On my own world I was a modern woman, of sorts, independent, and free, and with political power, particularly with fearful, cringing men.
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Much of it seems made for the display of slaves before freemen, but then, I suppose, that is exactly what it is made for.
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"We are all free to the men of the house," she said.
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It is common, incidentally, for a slave to kneel before freemen in serving them drink.
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How could she, a free woman, have such a dream? What could it mean? And what would the men do to her when they came to take her in their arms? She awakened, in terror.
Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor
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After the constraints and lies of an environment warped politically to subserve unnatural interests and goals they encounter for the first time in their lives men who are quite different from most of the men they have been familiar with, men wh...
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241
Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave rejoices to be owned, to belong to a man? Can a free woman, truly, not understand how a slave can be grateful for her domination, for her mastering? Can she not, then, sense the emotional depths of the slave? Let the ...
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To be sure, unless the slave is a bred slave, most of this interest is on the part of the free women, for the slaves have usually, at one time or another, been free women, and have a very good idea of how narrow, dull, limited and mediocre is t...
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"Am I yet legally free?" "Yes," I said, "but I think it will be well for you to accustom yourself to calling freemen 'Master.
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Some women pretend to be free, or like men, just to please men, thinking that that is what is wanted of them, and not the genuineness of their own womanhood.
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These were women, I had gathered, who had made a practice of relying upon the generosity and nobility of men, or of some men, to obtain their way in life, in a sense resorting frequently to types of female fraud, regularly exploiting and, in a sense, making ...
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"Yes," she said, "yes!" To be sure, the risks were doubtless less for women than for men, for the dangers would threaten primarily from men, and men would know what to do with women.
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But we are not men! We are women, and want, truly, with everything in our hearts and bellies, to be women, and we cannot be women truly if men are not truly men! Accordingly, I would not want a man who could not whip...
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"I am a free woman!" "We are free women!" cried the woman next to her.
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"Those tasks are for low free women," she said, "not for high free women such as we!" "Yet you are now at the wall, in shackles," I said, "and have upon you not so much as a veil".
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It began as a free woman's kiss but, as I held her, and pressed her to me, and she then pressed herself to me, it ended as a kiss which, though doubtless still that of a free woman, hinted at unmistakable latencies within her, that she might, under suitable conditions of ...
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I had little doubt, accordingly, that the blond woman kneeling before the fellow with the whip was his free companion, or former free companion.
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If she were still his free companion, it seemed she would now be kept in the modality of bondage, but perhaps she was now only his former free companion, and had been reduced to actual bondage, now being subject to purchase by anyone.
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130
Too, many had been frustrated by free women, and free women in their own city.
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Did the fellow not know the Lady Claudia was a free woman? It seemed to me he handled her rather roughly, given that she was free.
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"The question may be easily enough decided, of course," I said, "by seeing whether or not these garments, unlike the garments of free women, can be easily, swiftly and provocatively removed, and, say, whether or not, in the typical fashion of <...
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"And now," she cried, "that you have won from her her confession that she was slave, and she has said the words themselves, enacting embondment upon herself, you would put her, now, not even in the dignity of the free woman, but in the misery and degradation of a shamed s...
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Whereas most of the slave girls in the crowd, recognizable by the brevity of their tunics and collars, in their terror and confusion, were simply fleeing, intermingled with the free persons, some, like the former Lady Publia, were well in the custody of free women
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"Perhaps," she said, "my chains may now be removed, and I may be given suitable raiment, that of a free woman, that I may take a place amongst my free sisters".
21
549
Too, of course, Lady Claudia, still a free person, who could render free testimony, not even extracted under torture, for example, had been present.
21
845
The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in ...
21
1022
It is not unusual for the occupants of a coffle, of either sort, to be verbally and physically abused by free women and children, the children taking the behavior of the free women as a license authorizing their own tricks and pranks, to be spa...
21
1090
Sometimes slaves so clad are used as decoys, as in supposedly rich caravans, actually manned by guardsmen disguised as merchants, hoping to lure in bandits, or as substitutes for free women, as when it is thought important to divert pursuits or disguise the ...
21
1264
Perhaps to some extent, too, such garmenture, in its lovely degradation, protects the slave from the fury of free women—is the slut not already sufficiently exposed and shamed, but why do they bear their beauty with such defiant and brazen pride? What...
21
1354
The slave, because of her training, her emotional freedom, thousands of times greater than that of a free woman, the discipline she is under, and such, can attain orgasm much more quickly than a free woman, sometimes, particularly if she has been deprived fo...
2
317
"In short," I said, "you entered the inn, and remained here, in spite of the fact that you had not the wherewithal to meet your obligations, expecting perhaps you might somehow do so with impunity, that your bills would perhaps be simply overlooked, or dismissed by the inn in futile anger, or that e...
2
401
Not all free women are as ignorant as many men believe.
4
28
This does not mean that bath girls may not be available to tend to a strong male's various wants in the men's baths, or that handsome silk slaves, if they are summoned, may not appear in attendance in the baths of free women.
5
121
"men such as those of whom you speak," I said, "those who are so solicitous, so kindly, those who are so eager to render you succor, who will strive so desperately to help you, and please you, do they stir you deeply in your belly?" "I am a free woman," she said.
5
142
There, one by one, taken from the cage, while men waited outside the area, we were stripped and searched by two powerful free women.
Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor
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99
There they find men who, for the most part, are quite different from those they are accustomed to on Earth, strong, powerful, uninhibited, uncompromising men, men who have never been subjected to pathological conditioning programs aimed at the taming or debi...
37
191
Nature! Nature! Is that truly so hard to understand? Women desire strong men; they long for true masters; women despise weak men; they want to be taken in hand by strong men, and owned; they know males are dominant by nature, and ...
26
58
In Tharnan law a person conceived by a free person on a free person is considered to be a free person, even if they are later carried and borne by a slave.
42
114
"To be sure, she is still free, and free women, in this area, or at least free women of Ar, or those who speak with such an accent, are rare".
2
105
She would now call all freemen "Master," and, of course, all free women "Mistress".
19
1132
Many free women know more of the behaviors of slaves, and details of the relationships between them and their masters, than many freemen give them credit for knowing.
44
264
"You will address all freemen as 'Master,'" I said, "and all free women as 'Mistress.
1
412
In the oasis towns of the Tahari, and in the vicinity of the great desert, sometimes even free women are belled, and wear ankle chains, as well, that the length of their stride may be measured and made beautiful, and perhaps, too, to remind them, even though they be
2
102
"But I was free, free!" she pointed out.
19
1459
"I wish I was free to be sexual, that it was commanded of me, that I would have no choice! That I would be forced to be what I am! That I would be truly in my place, where I belong, helplessly, even institutionally, under absolute male dominance!" "But you are a free woma...
20
158
I had much touched her over the past few days, even though she was a free woman, as much for my relief, such as a free woman could provide, as for her instruction, usually when we had camped, sometimes before we slept, sometimes afterwards, or when I awakened and it pleas...
24
126
Similarly it might be opened, if one wished, say, to free the prisoner's hands for feeding or, if she is a free female, perhaps for the signing of papers".
26
154
"Even though I were a free woman?" "If you were in chains," I said, "you would presumably no longer be a free woman".
27
16
Of course, if no one is about, and one will otherwise inevitably sink, it makes sense to attempt to free oneself, by wading, or, in effect, trying to swim free.
36
58
"But as a free woman of high caste," she exclaimed, "to be put in the garment of a free woman of low caste is unthinkable!" "I see your point," I said.
44
132
"I am a free woman! I am a free woman!" "We all have our faults," I said.
48
18
"I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am ...
48
246
"free it! free it!" cried Marcus, covering her with kisses.
1
643
Whereas in the common fashion show of Earth the woman considers the clothing and the man considers the women, and the women serve the ulterior purposes of the designer, in the parade of slaves there are generally no free women present, and the ...
1
1114
I then pushed and struck my way through men, most of whom I think could not clearly see me in the throng, broke free, and vaulted over the low railing, to hurry through the darkness toward the Vosk.
12
326
One of the things which many free women resent about female slaves is that they are commonly denied the veil, that men may look openly, as they please, upon them.
19
1234
Perhaps, I thought, that is why many free women wish to keep men starved for sex, that they will then continue to be of interest to him.
19
1236
How pleasant it is to make women slaves! How pleasant it is to light the slave fires in their bellies! And how different they then are, so transformed! Or is it cruel to kindle such fire within them, to so enflame their delicious symmetries, to take them out of themselves and turn them...
28
264
Ina, even though a free woman, could detect the difference in the men now, intuitively, unmistakably.
29
117
Probably she had girls herself who wore that mark, the serving slaves whom she had not, in order not to tempt the men, brought with her into the delta, the slaves without whose services she, though a free woman, had been subjected to such hardship, being forced to comb he...
29
140
It would have been much like the hatred between the free women and the female slave, that embonded creature of whom men are so fond, and who gives them so much satisfaction, so much pleasure and joy.
31
33
Nowadays, with the increasing numbers of female slaves in the delta, a development muchly resented by the free females, though for whatever reason it is hard to imagine, given their claims of superiority to such creatures, many of the men, those lucky enough...
39
109
Even freemen had shamefully courted her favor.
44
262
"You do not address freemen by their name," I said.
47
130
On the other hand, it was appropriate for her to kneel, as she was in the presence of freemen.
Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor
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24
212
On Gor they discover men such as they did not know existed, human men, but lustful, powerful men, men of intellect and unswerving will, strict, uncompromising men, men who will literally own them, men w...
9
130
"It might be wise to accustom yourself, even though you are legally free now," I said, "to addressing freemen as "Master" and free women as "Mistress".
10
400
How could the free woman forgive her that? Too, perhaps most grievously, she, slave clad and collared, owned, devoted and obedient, eager to please, is incomparably more attractive to men than her rigid, bundled, inhibited, socially constrained free sister.
14
36
A free woman, as long as she remains free, can stand to the fullness of her short, graceful height before men.
22
342
After all, on what grounds should they object to a legitimate command issued by a free person to one who, after all, was but a slave? "Attack him!" said the woman to the freemen with her.
27
940
"How pathetic the men of Earth," she said, "they let their slaves run free!" "They may not always run free," I said.
22
168
The palanquin now having been set down, its bearers, its accompanying freemen, and the two men who had accompanied the fellow from the theater, withdrew.
14
388
"Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you ...
1
392
There was something in what the free woman had said, though in the frenzy of a sacking, the blood of the victors racing, flames about, and such, few occupants of a fallen city, I supposed, either free or slave, were altogether safe.
1
405
She, the free woman, a free person, might be trampled by tharlarion, or be run through, or have her throat cut, by victors.
1
408
Many is the free female in such a city who has torn away her robes before enemies, confessed her natural slavery, disavowed her previous masquerade as a free woman, and begged for the rightfulness of the brand and collar.
1
418
The slave could not see the face of the free woman, of course, but such locutions, "beautiful Mistress," and such, on the part of slave girls addressing free women, are common.
2
38
It was the sort of garment which free women profess to despise, to find unspeakably shocking, unutterably scandalous, the sort of garment which they profess to regard with horror, the sort of garment which they seem almost ready t...
8
311
Too, what if a fellow were to bring in ten thousand free slaves? Then there would be little room even for free folk.
9
138
"Accord such titles of respect to all free persons, even the lowliest of free persons," I said, "for you will be more beneath them than the dirt beneath their sandals".
10
393
In many respects the slave is more free than the free woman.
10
398
She is keenly sexual, which she is usually wise enough to conceal from the free woman, lest she be bound and mercilessly whipped, but the free woman suspects this only too well.
12
134
It is regarded as preposterous for a free man, as unworthy of a free man.
12
141
How is it possible that a free man could come to care for a slave, a collared, half-clad curvaceous little beast who desires only to serve him, and love him, and please him, as her master? How incomprehensible! Why rather, does he not piteously sue for the inestimable regard of a lofty...
12
265
Some free women claim that this book, which is supposedly written by Dina, "a slave," which continues to appear in various editions and revisions, because of its intelligence and sensitivity, is actually, and must have been, written by a free woman.
12
407
In any event, this attack on the part of the free woman, which happily had been only verbal, as they often are not, and the abused slave in any event dare not protest or object, as they are at the mercy of free persons, was in its way a profound compliment.
19
1030
Doubtless some women did, arrogating to themselves, as free women are free to do, the prerogatives of males.
20
682
How, too, this woman's life had changed! What a dramatic volte-face, from a free woman to a slave! How different she was from a free woman, this slave, hot, needful, beautiful, owned, obedient, begging.
21
337
She, in all her loftiness and pride, cannot begin to bear the thought of another learning that her throat, that of a free woman, such a free woman, is encircled by the slave band.
24
163
To be sure, Goreans tend to take their free women very seriously, though perhaps not as seriously as the free women are inclined to take themselves.
24
166
When all, or most, women are free, there is obviously not much of a contrast between the free and slave.
24
174
Contrariwise, I suppose it is reasonably clear why, given the nature of the culture, and the societal actuality of the contrast between free and slave, the status of the free woman on Gor is so high, so meaningful.
24
177
Another difference, of course, is that the free woman on Gor is almost certain to have a Home Stone, and the free woman of Earth will not.
27
563
One of the things which is a part of a Gorean free girl's education, once she has reached puberty, and particularly if she is of the upper castes, is the intricate couture of the free woman's wardrobe.
27
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"Once a man, any man," I said, "has tasted a slave, do you think he will ever again go back to free women?" "free women," she said, "are a thousand times better than a slave!" "Of course," I said.
Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor
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181
In the wars between free women and slave girls woe to the slave girl who is the serving slave of the free woman! On such a woman the free woman may to her heart's content indulge her vanity, her arrogance, and her pettiness, and may inflict on ...
10
505
How convenient all this is for them! Are the goods not, so to speak, publicly displayed? What sort of culture, I wondered, allows its women to be so exhibited, to be displayed so brazenly, so publicly and conveniently, for the inspection of men? And what of the wome...
6
209
For, just as there doubtless were men, true men, on the old world, though on such a world they must guard the secrecy of their manhood, who would prize the normal female, she made for arms, and crying out, and yielding, so, too, there must be on this world men
10
126
Many men, it seemed, and men such as these, such fierce, strong men, men like predators, like carnivores, might want me in their shackles! "You are from the slave world?" he asked.
13
216
"I am a helpless free woman," said the free woman, wheedlingly, "and you are a free man.
13
229
Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends ...
14
1080
I then, head down, avoiding their eyes, as a slave normally does with unknown freemen, turned about and led the free woman up the stairs.
19
984
"men could use me, me, a free woman—" "Once a free woman," I said.
46
7
"They wanted one to attend upon a prisoner, one who would be utterly ignorant of the affairs of our world, one who could be depended upon to innocently and naively discharge the duties of a keeper, relieving freemen of that responsibility, thus, too, enabling the contact...
11
1386
How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not ...
24
813
I felt sorry for the free women, in a way, but I think I sensed, and they sensed, as the men about perhaps did not, for I sometimes think men are very stupid, that the fate inflicted upon them was not as grievous as might be supposed.
46
101
"I have been free! I know what it is like! I am content to be a slave, and wish to be a slave! I am fulfilled in bondage, in ways that you, a man, or some men, may never understand! Oh, yes, you enslave us for your gratifications and pleasures, you monsters, you beasts! B...
4
71
How dare they speak like that? Who did they think they were? men? Did they think they were men? That is, of course, "men" in a sense long since prohibited to, or abandoned by, the males with which I was familiar.
4
361
Why did they not permit us to look upon them? Could they, for some reason or another, be so terrible to look upon? Who were they? Or, what were they? They seemed men, to be sure, but they did not seem men in the sense, or in the ways, in which I had grown accustomed to th...
8
249
If one is beautiful, why should one not be proud of it? Even if men force one, for their pleasure, to show it! And are we not pleased to be so displayed, to be seen as they will have us seen? Are we not then in the order of nature, as men will have us? Must one hide one's...
13
700
Did they sense, tremblingly, how exciting they might seem to men if they were so adorned, how much this might increase the desire which they might provoke in masters? And were they not, all, slaves? Did they not want to be exciting, beautiful, and desirable? Did they dare to conceive o...
16
203
Did I hear the striking of the shoulders in applause, the pounding of goblets on low tables, the urgent cries of men? What power, I thought, must a dancer, a true dancer, exercise over men! How she must arouse them, how she must drive them mad with passion! But what power...
19
272
Why would the Priest-Kings, I wondered, if they really required intermediaries, and were unable to deal directly with men, and, indeed, if there was any point in them dealing with men at all, have chosen to achieve this end with so eccentric and improbable a caste? Why wo...
24
912
And I do not object to this for, without honor, how could they be men, and, if they were not men, true men, how could they be fit and perfect masters for us? In time, red-eyed, the Lady Constanzia rose to her feet, unsteadily.
44
75
They are brutes, beasts, men of power, men of passion and violence, of inordinate desire, men who relish and celebrate women in every fiber of their being, who take them in hand, and deliciously, completely, uncompromisingly, own them, and mast...
8
294
I know now, of course, as I did not earlier, that there are many free women on Gor, and, indeed, that most women on Gor are free.
8
784
I felt wanton, and excited, and alive! Too, in spite of my brand, my tunic, the cell, the bars, I felt free, more free than I had ever felt before.
10
493
It is rumored they sometimes work in conjunction with free women who manage baths, and such, patronized by free women.
10
1002
How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the...
12
74
In such a situation, where a male might expect to continue the pursuit of a free woman, who is, after all, at that point, still a free person, he might not wish to tire himself pursuing a slave.
12
590
Doubtless he was free and could respect me, as I was free, as well.
13
68
"She told me she was a free woman!" said the free woman.
13
228
How different we are from free women! And yet, interestingly, how artificial, and how fragile, and how culturally precarious, is the distinction between the free woman and the slave.
13
741
Was I not to be beaten? The free woman would never know, of course! But I recalled that the monster had assured the free woman that I would be punished.
14
205
That is what I think of your condition, and what you really are, you free females! Take away your veils and robes, and we shall see what you are! There, see, you are no more than we, only more slaves! Yes, perhaps I had chanced to yield, to some extent, to the temptation to take a litt...
Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor
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12
309
She had been free, and had been free and lonely, free and unwanted, free and unnoticed, free and undesired, free and terribly miserable.
30
804
I have been the most free of the free, or thought myself such, and am now amongst the most enslaved of the enslaved, and am yet, because of that, the most free of the free, the truly free, for I am no longer at war with myself.
17
1204
To men such as these, the mighty, untamed, unreduced men of Gor, what can women be but prey and quarry? What can we be before such men but intimidated, dominated slaves, but eager, yielding, responsive, supplicatory slaves? Such men
27
1889
Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire...
18
548
And, indeed, where men are concerned, at least freemen, and these men were presumably free, what alternative does a slave girl have other than instant and perfect obedience? After a few Ehn she again felt her legs spread and the ...
22
59
Could the woman be candid? Could she be unaware of the effect of a slave on the blood of men? Had she not seen the eyes of men following them in the streets? Could she be unaware of the markets and biddings, the seekings and huntings, the pursuits, the raids and wars, the...
25
599
"Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty...
22
391
Many men, fine men, strong men, virile men, do not think me too young at all! There had been, she had learned, twenty-one bids on her, following her release from the upright bar and the exhibition cage.
24
583
Whereas a woman's slave may, and often must, handle the clothing of a free woman, assisting the free woman in her cabinet, and such, she is seldom, if ever, permitted to wear the clothing of a free woman.
25
611
"I am free! I am a free woman mistakenly, wrongly, brought before you, thusly exposed and degraded, as though I might be a naked slave! I am a free woman! I am the Lady Melanie of Brundisium.
26
1174
How different things are for the slave and free! The free male, should he have an interest in free women, perhaps he has no access to slaves, usually initiates the sexual encounter.
26
1308
The free woman may think herself a thousand times above the slave, and may be justified in doing so, and, indeed, in many ways, but the slave, kneeling frightened before the free woman, her head to her sandals, knows that it is she, and not the free woman, w...
27
3353
She must learn to speak not with the strident, insolent tones of a free woman, but with the softness, and deference, of the slave; see that she wears her tunic well, and attractively; she is to be neat and well groomed, brushed, combed, and cleaned; she is not a slovenly free...
8
121
She had learned, incidentally, that she must address all freemen as 'Master' and all free women, though she had not yet encountered one on this world, as 'Mistress'.
12
526
One refers to freemen as "Master" and free women as "Mistress," unless given permission to use their names".
17
654
"But thousands of things are done everyday, even to free women, and freemen, without their consent," he said.
18
31
The slave addresses all freemen as "Master" and all free women as "Mistress".
18
34
To be sure, the slave commonly refers to her owner as she refers to freemen and free women in general, namely, simply as "Master" or "Mistress".
18
477
men, it seems, respect free women, but seek slaves, they venerate the citizeness, but it is we whom they buy; they esteem the free woman but it is we whom they rope and leash, and lead home.
20
723
Another theory as to the usual choice of gray for state slaves is that it is a sop cast to the sensibilities of free women, who, resenting the usual effects of female slaves on freemen, wished the state to limit or reduce the attractiveness of...
25
677
When with freemen the free women seldom neglect an opportunity to speak loftily and disparagingly of slaves.
18
475
The slave is, you see, to be instantly available to men; her inviting, luscious intimacies, so sweet and warm between her thighs, belong not to her but to the master; she is not a free woman who may wrap and bundle herself, and shield and guard herself; she is a slave and...
24
620
You put me in chains, and in them I have found the greatest freedom and happiness a woman can know! Oh, I know my vulnerability, and I fear the bonds of a slave, but I would not have things other than as they are! Oh, I fear the whip, but I would not be other than subject to it! So see...
27
1498
What woman's belly would not be warmed, recognizing that she is attractive, and that men would like to have her? And, of course, she knows that if she were to be had, and this muchly pleases her, that she would be well had, had then not as a free woman is had, but had as ...
30
665
Know, too, proud, vulnerable woman of Earth, that you might be observed, yes, you, literally you, personally you, exactly you, you who are now reading this, observed, carefully observed, scrutinized and noted, perhaps in the bright, cool office where you work; perhaps at the beach, where you thought...
2
165
Doubtless she granted him sexual favors, the whore, the slut! And he so naive and undisciplined as to accept them, to permit her to be such, not to call her to her higher self, had she one, and reform her, if it were possible with such as she! She had no right to be with one such as he! She was not ...
13
75
Oh, give me virile masters who will own me, powerful men whom I must fear, and whom I must obey instantly and with perfection, subject to them in all things, men who will take my womanhood in hand and see to it that it is fulfilled, to its fullest most helpless measure, <...
24
267
They are acute, sometimes brilliant, passionate, unconquered men, men who are close to nature, who know her, and believe in her, and will not leave her side, men who have never forgotten what women are for, and what is to be done with them.
25
38
And can it be that she behind me, so beautiful, is less beautiful than I? Surely we are all much the same, and yet men, the brutes, rank us, and will buy and sell us! As it pleases them! As goods! But, of course, as the goods we are! But might not I bring a higher price than any of the...
25
326
And did you not flirt with the men? Was your veil not disarranged as though inadvertently when you drank? Did you not sit in a certain fashion, turned to the side, legs together, as a slave girl might sit, if she were permitted to sit? Did you not insolently, haughtily, arrogantly, put...
Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor
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204
The men he had brought into the forest, to abet the mission of Lord Grendel, were thus a tiny fraction of his men; but they were picked men, men muchly trusted, men often relied on.
2
64
free, they are without identity; free, they are meaningless and worthless; free, they are egotistical bothers, haughty nuisances, arrogant annoyances, self-alienated creatures removed from both biology and themselves, unhappy, pathetic, miserable, casting-ab...
43
320
Many a blow, thus, has been prevented by the interposition of a free male between his slave and a free woman, to the fury of the frustrated free woman.
79
596
"It can be a capital offense," said Cabot, "for a slave to present herself as a free woman, to pretend to be a free woman, to garb herself as a free woman, or such".
81
159
"Am I not free, if the outlawry is lifted, free to return to my holding, free to go where I will, and be as I will?" "Perhaps," said Grendel.
2
338
A slave addresses freemen as Master, free women as Mistress.
5
240
"You will address freemen as "Master," free women as "Mistress".
10
59
Commonly slaves are not permitted to call freemen and free women by their names.
16
33
Perhaps she despised men as she had known them, but perhaps she did not despise men as she suspected they might be, men before whom she could be only a woman, and a slave.
22
72
Too, she was here before a man, and men, such as she had while on Earth met only in her dreams, men of will, and force, men before whom such as she, she realized, could be but a slave.
23
171
"men, too, of course, untamed men, virile men, can know such deprivation and need, as well.
34
177
Its meaning is that we are women, and exist to be desired and sought, and that we wish, and wish desperately, despite what we might claim, to be desired and sought, and that we exist to be beautiful, and loving, for men, and that we exist to please and serve men...
1
1013
One thing that is apparently difficult for free Goreans to understand, and perhaps for others who are free, or enjoy the semblance of freedom, is the reveling of the slave in what they conceive of as her degradation.
3
68
Did she not know she could be lashed for speaking in that tone of voice to a free man? Did she think she was a free woman.
24
254
"I am a free woman!" "A free woman, on a rope," said Cabot.
36
282
He found this amusing, for most slaves were once free women, and, usually, only the most beautiful of free women were collared.
36
283
Accordingly, almost all slaves would be likely to be more beautiful than most free women, a fact not lost on free women.
40
92
"Do not be cruel! Do not deprive me! My needs are a thousand times beyond those of a free woman! My needs are not those of free woman, but of a slave!" "An aroused slave?" "Yes!" "The needs are different?" he asked.
43
89
"free me, free me, you fools!" screamed the Lady Bina.
43
316
The Gorean slave girl is much at the mercy of free women, by whom she is likely to be resented and hated, and free women are not above petty exercises of power, ordering the slave to kneel, to serve her, to bare herself, to kiss her embroidered...
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422
"Oh!" Cabot had taken a doubled strand of slave cord, put it about her left wrist, drawn the free strands through the loop, jerked the loop thusly formed tight on her wrist, and then, with the free strands beyond the loop, twice encircled her right wrist, pulled the whole...
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She is a free woman and as a free woman must accept the penalties incurred by her crimes, crimes both obvious and grievous.
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143
It will be almost as though she were free, but she knows she is not free.
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136
In any event, these women clearly did not understand that the Lady Bina, for it was she whom they had entrapped, was a free woman, or, more likely, they had no concept at all of a free woman.
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28
This is sometimes spoken of as the "paradox of the collar," namely, that she who is least free may, interestingly, be the most free.
77
62
"Perhaps you think you are a free woman?" "No, Master, I do not think I am a free woman!" "What are you, then?" "A slave, Master, a slave!" "Anything else?" "No, Master, only that! Nothing else.
78
21
What master would admit that he is fond of so low and worthless a thing as a slave? Suppose a free woman should hear of it?" "We must fear free women?" "Terribly," whispered Corinna.
78
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"I want to yield so, and as no free woman, being free, could possibly yield, and how could I yield thusly, save to one who was my master?" "You could not," said Corinna, "nor could any woman.
79
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There were no free women present at this feast, of course, so the slaves need not be attired in decorous tunics, or even gowns, nor needed they serve so deferentially and unobtrusively that they might almost not be present, in order that free women...
79
595
"In the garb of a free woman?" "Did the girls in the pleasure cylinder not speak to you of such things," he asked, "when they were measuring you for a tunic, teaching you how to belt a camisk, and such?" "Yes, Master," she said, "slaves must be distinctively garbed, that there be no mi...
Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor
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719
There are various reasons for this, as I understand it, for example, the slave learns that she is no longer a free woman, that her hair, its length, dressing, and such, is now at the disposal of masters, that the distinction between her and the free woman is to be clearly...
3
20
Indeed, few females of Earth, from their experiences on their native world, have any understanding of what it would be to be a female amongst men such as those of Gor; few such females would be prepared in the least for the possessiveness and power, the virility and lusts, of such <...
22
438
Thus, technically, in that time she should have been exhibiting deference to the free, addressing freemen as "Master," free women as "Mistress," and so on.
8
150
"I was told to expect two freemen and a slave," said Tajima, "but I find two freemen, and two slaves".
31
33
"They are mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "and the dregs of such, chosen for skill and venality, brought from a hundred cities, from the ruins and rubble of Ar, from the alleys of Besnit and Harfax, from the wharves of Brundisium and Schendi, men without Home Stones, thieves, outlaws,...
1
454
"I do not wish to be free! But you must free me! You are not Gorean! You are of Earth, of Earth! You have no choice but to free me!" "I do not understand," I said.
4
332
I am free, a free woman! I am not to be touched! I am to be treated with respect and dignity! I am not a slave! I am a free woman!" I removed my hands from her garment, and stepped back.
9
280
"I am a free woman," said Miss Wentworth, "a free woman, a free woman!" "Of course," I said.
13
82
How like a stupid free woman was she still! Did the free woman not think there was nothing more to attracting a man than that she be a woman? To be sure, the hint of a bosom, the suggestion of the sweet width of hips, within the robes of concealment, was ind...
27
146
I doubted Pertinax would have his rather disparaging comparison of the Gorean woman and the woman of Earth, in terms of dignity and such, had he ever met a Gorean free woman, particularly of high caste, compared to whom the free woman of Earth, less free tha...
3
422
Do not all slaves call freemen "Master," and free women "Mistress"? Too, Constantina was clearly in need of discipline, and I suspected I might be willing to make an exception to my general reservations in her case.
9
36
Cecily knew enough to address all free women as "Mistress," and all freemen as "Master".
9
44
The free woman was a person; the slave was a property, an animal, and an animal which, aside from matters of social advancement, position, wealth, and status, was commonly preferred a thousand times by men to a free woman.
10
685
All freemen are to be addressed as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'".
22
428
I am a slave and must address all freemen as 'Master', and all free women as 'Mistress'".
5
355
Let her, a proud, insolent free woman of Earth, used to the men of Earth, such as Pertinax, men whom she despised and might affront with impunity, and upon occasion, in virtue doubtless of wealth and authority, command, have to behave before me, and before P...
7
280
Certainly, now, she would better understand, even as a free woman, how she was in the power of men, should men choose to exercise their power.
18
168
This is, I suppose, not only to distinguish her, and dramatically, from the free woman, with whom she must not be confused, but because she is usually owned by men, and men enjoy seeing the beauty of women.
11
246
"For the first time in my life," she said, "I now want the touch of men! Nay! I must have the touch of men! I now need, desperately, helplessly, piteously need, the touch of men!" "Of course," I said, "you are a woman".
12
29
Those brought to Tarncamp were, I had gathered from Pertinax, mercenaries, bandits, brigands, thieves, murderers, wanderers, low men, cast-off men, men lost from Home Stones, and such.
32
82
We have need of men who will place steel before gold, honor before advancement, whose service, once pledged, is inalterable, men whose loyalty is not for sale, men who cannot be divided, and cannot be bought.
1
193
They have a position and elevation in society which far transcends that of, say, the free woman of Earth who is usually not so much free as merely not yet enslaved.
1
396
Do not even free women sometimes inadvertently disarrange their veils? So, many slaves, at least in the absence of free women, before whom they are likely to grovel and cower, and wisely, to avoid being beaten, luxuriate and rejoice in their be...
1
458
You have no choice but to free me! You must free me!" "You think so?" I asked.
3
420
Certainly one does not go about punishing the slaves of others, though free women tend to be rather free in this regard, and most Goreans are not above reprimanding errant slaves, whether their own or those of others.
3
424
free women on Gor, as on Earth, are free to do much what they wish, with little or no fear of consequences.
4
278
"I am free, free!" I did not remove my hands from the neckline of the tunic.
4
359
"free!" "Yes," I said, "you are a free woman, but one of Earth.
4
361
Compared to a Gorean free woman, sheltered by her Home Stone, secure within her walls, complacent in the unquestioned arrogance of her station, the women of Earth do not even understand what it is to be free.
4
368
"But it is true," I said, "that you are a free woman of Earth, at least as far as those women can be free, and thus that my codes, though the matter is controversial, much depending on interpretations, do suffice to give me pause".
Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor
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25
Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a Home Stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangero...
3
1347
"It was done through agents," she said, "but at the behest of strange men, quiet men, sedate men, softly spoken men, men carrying unusual weapons, men with strange eyes".
8
122
What male does not sense the vulnerable, inviting nakedness of a slave within a woman's assorted garmentures, no matter how contrived and pretentious? And do not even free women sense that men see them thusly, see them exposed beneath their rob...
7
155
Let Thassa shrink and tremble before Tersites and his mighty ship! He subdues her! He humbles her! He breaks her to the yoke of his will! Yea, I, Tersites, whom men scorned, whom men ridiculed and banished, whom men despised and mocked for years, now, first ...
6
33
Even when she kneels before the free woman, in her mockery of a garment, fastened in a collar, her lovely hair in the dirt before the free woman's slippers, she knows herself special, and prized, in a way the free woman is not.
8
159
Did she truly think she might play with a free man? Did she truly think she might speak as a free woman? Did she not know she was a slave? Did she truly think that I, or any free man, would not put her to discipline? Let her learn differently.
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40
Do they not suggest that the object within her collar has come to the attention of freemen? Do they not portend the possibility of eventual caresses, for which she hopes, which she is zealous to earn? "Dear fellows," I said, "it is possible these two were once free...
28
173
I supposed that free women speculated that private dinners amongst freemen, to which they were not invited, were often so served.
37
442
The female serving slave of a free woman is likely to be modestly tunicked, whereas the slave of a free man is likely to be tunicked in such a manner as to make it clear to other men that she was worth buying.
37
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free women have their vanity, sometimes extravagantly so, so why not a slave, as well? And, indeed, is not a slave even more entitled to vanity than a free woman? She, after all, has been looked upon by men, and found fit for collaring.
9
406
Their final intention, in any case, I suspected, was to put together a formidable force as quickly as possible, a force of skilled and dangerous men, menfree of certain indigenous and traditional loyalties, which, disciplined, and closely managed, might in ...
8
225
"I can understand such things," I said, "before high officers, before men who determine the opening and closings of gates, men who hold the keys to cellars of gold, to the trove of Merchants, men who command armies, who grasp the reins of power, whose word w...
9
400
But amongst them as well were landless men, younger sons, men without Home Stones, bandits, pirates, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, thieves, fugitives, wanted men, cutthroats, fugitives from Ar, such as Seremides, and others.
12
589
I gathered it was very unpleasant for a lovely slave, a slave such as she, well-curved and delicious, a man-pleasing slave, the sort that men wish to buy, the sort that men wish to own, the sort that men find attractive, and care for, an exquisite, feminine ...
22
80
Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley.
26
25
Statistically, two men are likely to vanquish a single man, one engaging, one killing, with the result that there is not likely to be one survivor, one of the two men, but rather two of the two men, the two who held the numerical advantage, slender though it...
3
466
The barefootedness of the slave also tends to draw a further distinction between her and the free woman, for the free woman, even of low caste, almost always has footwear of one sort or another, even if it is only a wrapping of cloth.
3
1037
'I am a free woman, a free woman!' I cried.
3
1074
How dared he, and I a free woman! Where were guardsmen that I might summon? Surely that was not such a kiss as might be given to a free woman! Might it not have been more appropriately imposed upon a paga girl or a brothel slut, fastened down for a man's ple...
6
41
How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed...
6
42
The free woman often hates the slave; the slave, often, feels not only fear of, but also pity for, the free woman.
12
501
What do they do, such things, the collar, bracelets, and such, other than confirm her womanhood upon a female? To be sure, slaves, as free woman are not, are well advised to answer quickly and truthfully any queries of a free man.
18
36
I wondered if she still thought of herself as a free woman, or was trying to think of herself as a free woman.
21
330
Do other free women suspect how she is now different from them? Could they possibly know? That she, though a free woman, has been subjected to slave use? How they would shun and scorn her, if they knew.
21
734
Many may have had their hair shorn and begged retreating soldiers, of Tyros and Cos, and of the free companies, to take them with them, not as inconvenient, troublesome free women, but as begging, complaisant slaves.
24
180
Many free women, it is said, and perhaps all, as is hinted, are merely slaves who have dared to conceal themselves for a time in the habiliments of the free.
26
62
The Pani free women, incidentally, seem, except for the companions of high officers, and such, to have much lower status than the typical Gorean free woman, certainly one of upper caste.
26
329
Beyond that, do not insult a free man! Do not insinuate that a free man might be so foolish as to care for a slave.
37
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Indeed, on her own world, I supposed she had been free, as free, at any rate, as such women could be, in such a world, where, I gathered, their values, views, attitudes, dress, behavior, and such were dictated, as nearly as I could tell, by lunatics who, in ...
2
21
We at the oars, freemen all, for our vessel was a long ship, low in the water, knifelike, fit for war, were looking forward to our winter leave, and the paga and girls of the taverns, The Silver Chain, the Beaded Whip, the Pleasure Garden, the Chatka and Curla, the Ubar'...
Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor
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376
"No!" "What," he asked, "if you should meet not the men of your world, boys, half-men, subdued men, furtive glancers, guilty, shamed, crippled men, men trained to betray their nature, taught to suppress their manhood, but other
35
68
Thus, at the end of the first phase one would have a conquered world putatively shared by men and Kurii, men who have served Kurii, and Kurii who have directed and managed men, the men unaware of their manipulation, all this theoretically achie...
7
183
Might they not have escaped the lips of a frightened slave? And how naturally I had addressed a free man as "Master!" I recalled, from the party, that all free males were to be addressed as "Master," and all free females as "Mistress!" I was taken to a side ...
7
326
How can free women compete with her? The free man may find the free woman of interest, for example, in matters of family, position, power, and wealth, but is it not the despised, meaningless slave to whom he turns for pleasure? Is it not the sl...
8
230
The free woman of a high caste and the free woman of a lower caste commonly have one thing in common which unites them, securely, as free women.
18
795
I was in a collar! I had failed it! Did I think I was a free woman? I was no longer a free woman, if I had ever been a free woman.
49
172
The free woman on Gor has a status and power which would astonish most of the putatively free women of my former world, but then the Gorean commonly thinks of the women of my former world not as free women, at least ...
8
233
Do the freemen not attend the auctions, do they not scout the exposition cages, do they not saunter to the gates, to witness the arriving coffles, to see the former free women of another city being marched naked to local markets, do they not w...
8
234
How detestable, think the free women, are slaves! How horrifying to want to be owned, to want to belong to a man, wholly, and desire to love and serve him, forever, abjectly, and unquestioningly, to the best of one's ability! And how terrible men are that th...
10
189
How could one care for a slave when a free woman was present? But how could one care for a free woman, when a slave was present? But how, I asked myself, could I now be of interest to men, given the work of the razor of Petranos? "We are here," said the beas...
3
26
I was brought here as most from my world, as animals for your markets, selected for qualities and attributes of interest to strong men, qualities and attributes for which strong men, historically, even on my old world, will bid and pay, those qualities and attributes so d...
10
157
And how she had enjoyed the eyes of the men upon her, well understanding such appraisals as evidence of her value! The free woman is doubtless priceless, but the slave has an actual value, what men are willing to pay for her.
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101
For example, if those of Ar visit Treve, the banquet will almost certainly be served by stripped women once of Ar, now in the collar of Trevan masters, which courtesy is returned, of course, should those of Treve visit Ar, where the freemen of Treve will be...
7
575
A week would not pass without my declining several offers for outings, afternoons or evenings, with such, while I would select from amongst such offers those few which I deemed suitable, those which might prove eventually to be to my advantage, those from suitably positioned young men,...
15
52
I had seen hundreds of Gorean men about, as I had scarcely on my world understood such men could exist, so large, strong, and powerful, so naturally self-satisfied, so unassumingly proud, and arrogant, possessive, aggressive men, unconfused and unconflicted,...
1
44
How free we are, then, animals, so different from their free women.
4
482
"As I understand it," I said, "kajirae are commonly clothed sedately, in long gowns, if with bared arms, at such feasts, that is, if free women should be present?" One scarcely dared conjecture how they might serve, if free women were not prese...
4
574
"And remember," she said, "you are to address all free males as Master, and all free females as Mistress.
5
84
Can you, who are free, understand that? I suspect your free women can.
7
78
"I am a free woman! Let me go! Release me! free me! Give me clothing! Give me decent food! Return me to Earth!" My voice rang against the stones, in the small space.
7
87
I am a free woman! I must be a free woman, I sobbed.
7
737
Accordingly, it was said that amongst many free women the taint of carnality was to be eschewed, even violently, as a thing of embarrassment and shame, unworthy of a free woman.
8
592
"I am free, a free woman! I am the Lady Persinna, of the Merchants, of Four Towers".
8
940
"I am a free woman, a free woman!" "What is it that she is saying?" asked the auctioneer.
8
1098
I do not think, ultimately, that there is that much difference, if any, between the free woman of Earth and the free woman of Gor.
8
1593
A free woman, of course, may lie, for they are free.
8
1745
The female slave is far more likely to be beaten by a free woman than a free man.
8
1746
To the free man she is a joy and treasure; to the free woman she is a hated reproach and rival.
9
146
Normally, when there is doubt as to the status or condition of a woman she is given to free women, who may then, with respect to her modesty should she be free, examine her body, for a possible collar, or brand.
10
263
It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world.
Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor
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113
Why then do freemen court the free woman and buy the slave? Why do they yield their place in the theaters and concert halls to the free woman, and drag the slave by the hair to a tavern's alcove? When the free woman is courted, s...
17
119
Can we help it if men want us more? And why do they so often insult and taunt men? Are they angry with men, and, if so, why? What do they want from men? Do they not understand that this might annoy, or anger, the men? A slave migh...
50
138
Some here, I speculated, might even be of the caste of Warriors, though in such a case, perhaps renegades or exiles, possibly men who had fared badly in city revolutions, even men who may have forsworn Home Stones or betrayed codes, desperate men, dangerous ...
9
255
Most slaves, of course, were once free women, free insofar as a woman may be regarded as free, as not yet collared.
17
111
The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth.
25
26
I was joyful! I was free, I thought, at last, free! free! Then I paused amongst the leaves, the trees, and shade.
29
171
Whereas the Panther Woman, or Panther Girl, as other free women, commonly holds the slave in contempt, and is cruel to her, she seems to hate her less, on the whole, than she hates either the free male or the typical free female.
4
250
The slave, of course, addresses all freemen as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'.
29
172
The animus borne to the slave by the typical free woman is doubtless motivated primarily by the fact that men commonly prefer the lovely, lightly clad slave, submitted and needful, docile, obedient, and passionate, hoping to please, to the proud, exalted free
5
274
I have wondered, sometime, if the glorious free women of these men, so arrogant and remote, so lofty and proud, so secure, so serene, so abundantly and beautifully robed and veiled, so regal, so majestic, so concealed from head to toe, if stripped and sold, ...
9
266
"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawal...
29
170
Panther Girls are commonly filled with hatred; they commonly resent and hate men, whom it seems, oddly enough, they appear to envy and attempt to emulate, but, interestingly, perhaps even more, they commonly resent and hate typical free women, perhaps becaus...
4
143
And what of women on such a world? Not knowing men, how can they know themselves? How should we understand day without night, summer without winter, here without there, this without that? How shall we understand women without men? There can be ...
7
17
Doubtless this had something to do not simply with my needs, and the unhappiness I had known on Earth, but, too, with the men of this world, dominant, powerful, virile men, who would see me as a woman, and slave, and treat me as such, men so natural, so asto...
17
78
How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of n...
29
69
They were not dressed by men for the pleasure of men, but, perhaps, should the occasion arise, to torment and taunt men.
29
77
Why were Panther Women, or Panther Girls, so different, so hostile to men, and to themselves? Did they hate a womanhood which they lacked, or doubted they possessed? Was this a matter of pride of some sort, of striving to realize some sort of an unusual image? Why had the...
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69
"It is men!" "Yes, men, men!" said Tula.
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31
How different were the men of Gor from so many of the men I had known on Earth! So many of the men of Earth had disappointed me; so many seemed pathetically devirilized, so reduced and robbed of their masculinity.
3
7
Is it so strange that I, then humbled, then reduced, then subject to chains, the whip, the collar, was now free, at last free! It was a freedom in which I had had no decision, but one forced upon me, and I would not have had it otherwise.
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71
Was I not legally free! I was free! I behaved so, as I did, you must understand, merely in order to mitigate my fears, to face, taunt, defy, and deny them, to ridicule them, to prove them groundless, only that.
6
92
Few free traitresses, or traitresses who long remained free, escaped the city.
6
323
Did she still think she was a free woman? Had she not yet learned she was a slave? Lying is permitted to the free woman, not the slave.
7
139
The free person knows himself free, and conceives of himself as such.
7
180
free women may move awkwardly, clumsily, stiffly, however they please, but you, you must keep in mind, are no longer a free woman.
9
201
It is said that a free woman might perish of shame if placed in a slave tunic, but, to a slave, such a garment, which she knows need not be accorded to her, may be a treasure, more precious to her than some assemblage of robes and veils to a free woman.
9
238
For example, if the free woman were to dress as a slave, she might soon be collared, and if the master were to dress his slave as a free woman, he would be jeopardizing her life.
9
242
The culture does deem it important, and free women insist upon this, that a clear distinction be drawn between the free woman and the slave.
9
250
The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the r...
13
132
How is it that there is such a difference between the free woman and the slave, and then, again, that there is no difference? A radical distinction is drawn between the Gorean free woman, with caste and Home Stone, and the slave.
Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor
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118
Let her, so situated and so clad, despite what trepidation she might feel, speak openly and clearly of these matters, of her fate at the hands of peasants, of what had been done to her, of her reduction, humiliation, and debasement, of her treatment as no more than a slav...
9
51
And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reck...
11
135
"The ultimate judge and lord of battle is men afoot, common men, marching, disciplined men, men who breach walls and force their way through gates, who can explore streets and enter rooms where desperate enemies lurk.
42
267
"Margaret Wentworth," he said, "was a free woman, petty, vain, venal, ambitious, conniving, sly, hypocritical, dishonest, pretentious, lying, and arrogant, but free, one despicable in many ways, but free.
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A free woman may look boldly into the eyes of a free man, why not, she is free, but a girl in her collar, aware of her collar, is not likely to do so.
29
297
What woman, slave or free, objects to being beautiful? Indeed, what free woman has not conjectured how she might appear, so excitingly and beautifully clad? Nudity, incidentally, is not so rare amongst Gorean men, particularly those engaged in heavy labors.
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78
The free woman would not stand for it, and freemen would not permit it.
11
166
"They will be ronin, men of the waves, men with no lord, mercenaries, free swords".
17
128
But there are men who prefer ka-la-na, and men who prefer paga, even men who prefer mead, or kal-da, even sake.
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37
Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who, concealed, shifted about and distributed their fire? Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who applied themselves efficiently, under conditions of limited vision, on a covered bridge, in a pass, or at the rear door of an ...
43
123
They had been selected to be at the feet of men, to serve men, and to give pleasure to men, their masters.
12
65
But I do not think our free women, here in the islands, have quite the pompous, exalted status inflicted on free women across Thassa".
29
106
A free woman can freely pronounce herself a slave, of course, but this is her last act as a free woman.
29
484
The free woman is free, and the slave is a slave.
30
534
The free woman is free, the slave is a belonging, a property.
42
198
"You cannot leave me behind! I am Margaret, Margaret Wentworth! We are both of Earth! Remember New York! Remember the office! We came to Gor together! You want me! You love me! You will do whatever I want! free me! I am chained! free me! Take me with you!" "Fetch three tu...
44
98
free women in jeopardy, say, a blade at their throat, rather than accept an honorable death as a free person, as is prescribed, may declare themselves slave, after which they are stripped and bound, and, despised as the slaves they now are, are held for the ...
56
29
"No," she said, "I am a free woman, and a free woman of the higher orders".
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649
In a world where, in effect, all women are free, freedom does not mean very much, but, in a culture where not all women are free, it means a great deal.
61
650
Indeed, I have sometimes suspected that the low status of the "free woman" on Earth, together with her common lack of veiling, the freedom with which she reveals her wrists, hands, ankles, and such, have led many Goreans to regard her as open slave stock, as opposed to, i...
29
483
Do they see the slave as a rival? Do they resent the preference of men for the slave? Do they envy the slave? Do they fear the slave in themselves? Do they object to the slave's openness and freedom, to the liberation of her femininity, to her desire to selflessly love an...
30
375
Later they will think nothing of serving masters naked, and will be grateful for being permitted to do so, as it is a great privilege for a slave to be allowed to serve freemen".
38
77
I wished, of course, to free as many men as possible, both for my own sake, to confuse matters, and make pursuit more difficult, and for theirs, as well, that at least some might make their way back to their villages.
44
103
"You are in the presence of freemen," I said.
49
151
As she was a Gorean kajira, I had no doubt she was the victim of the slave fires which freemen, perhaps cruelly, had seen fit to light in her belly.
57
54
The beast in the hearts of men had broken its tether, and was now afoot, free, prowling, and ravening.
61
118
This arrangement is demanded by free women in order that the worthlessness and degradation of the slave be dramatically contrasted with their own freedom, dignity, and station, and required by men, as it is appropriate that slaves...
61
938
What slave would not be pleased, to be found of interest by freemen? "She will be a delight on the continent," said Pertinax.
1
39
Of fighting men then, discounting the tarnsmen withdrawn into the mountains, at their camp, Lords Nishida, Okimoto, and Temmu had less than thirty-five hundred men.
1
85
How had it been that several men, perhaps altogether some eight hundred or so, had managed, by various routes, undetected, to converge simultaneously on a supposedly secret camp? And it seemed that these men must have been especially trained, or warned, about what they wo...
Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor
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Quote
61
325
Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and...
49
201
What free man, looking upon a free woman of possible interest, does not, in his imagination, consider her as a slave, how she might look, barefoot in a tunic, a collar on her neck? Does he not idly ponder how she might look, bellied and bound before him? Does he not wonde...
11
141
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 r...
34
252
A slave, if she speaks the name of the free, is expected to do so with the respect to which the free, being free, are entitled.
49
371
How excited and pleased we were to be slaves, free to rejoice in our attractiveness, free to revel in our beauty and its power, well aware of its effect on ourselves and others, no longer permitted, lest we be whipped, the curbs and checks, the ten thousand constraints an...
49
500
"A lovely free woman, with all the powers of a free woman, and those of a lovely free woman, can be of great use in a thousand enterprises".
50
246
As a result, a free woman, given the privileges of her liberty, usually feels free to abuse a free male, verbally or corporally, much as she might wish.
61
521
For most practical purposes, where all women are free no woman is free, or, indeed, not free.
2
307
"All free women are as mistress to me," she said, "as all freemen are as master to me".
6
438
Nonetheless, you will address all freemen as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'.
7
313
You have learned, I trust, that all freemen are to be addressed as 'Master', all free women as 'Mistress'.
8
302
The differences between men and women, profound as they were anywhere, I would learn, were far more intensified, far more visible, far more open, on Gor than on my former world, even amongst the free, and so would they not be multiplied a thousandfold betwee...
9
550
I was now prepared to accept the views of my instructresses, to avoid free women, and placate, cultivate, and please freemen.
11
140
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...
26
151
We did receive, as some passed us by, closely, dark looks, and we noted sneers of contempt, but no one seemed interested in interacting with us, neither freemen nor free women.
30
396
The slave addresses all freemen as 'Master', and all free women as 'Mistress', but she uses the words 'my Master' only to her actual master, her owner.
62
28
How many free women, I wondered, could match the slave in beauty? How many would dare to walk and stand, and move, as a slave, with such casual, unconscious ease, such assurance and womanly grace, the grace of a woman who knows herself so special and prized that she is co...
8
44
Is it not strange that there are worlds where such an observation should appear surprising, and be hailed as a profound insight? And this, I would learn, that men were not women, and women were not men, was the case amongst even the free<...
9
484
"And what does a free woman know of men, or of what men might prize in the ankles of slaves?" "But they are attractive, my ankles, are they not?" I said.
59
43
The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from i...
61
536
Not at the feet of men, and perhaps resentful of that fact, they surround themselves with a mystique of preciousness and power designed to awe, subordinate, reduce, and tame men, perhaps to punish men for denying them the rights and hopes of their frustrated...
61
661
"This quarrel, noble Albus," cried Kurik of Victoria, "is for you! For its residence it would choose your heart! Order your men to throw down their weapons!" "men, men!" cried Decius Albus, in terror.
6
218
"If you were a free woman," said Paula, "I must be pleased to endure your abuse uncomplainingly, but you are not a free woman, Phyllis.
8
19
The societal position of the Gorean free woman, incidentally, particularly in the high cities, is far higher than that of the average free woman of Earth.
9
285
Then I had found myself in the arms of a Gorean male, a mere slave, and then it was I, I feared, who had begged, pleaded, and hoped! How weak is the slave, how helpless, how much at the mercy of the free! There are many differences between a free woman and a slave.
9
423
For an insult to take place there must be a commonality of levels, free to free, person to person, citizen to citizen, even slave to slave, even beast to beast, but levels cannot be crossed.
11
43
free women of the enemy make lovely slaves, it seems, but what else are they good for? I had learned that it was far safer to be a slave, or a verr or kaiila, than a free woman in the hands of the enemy.
12
7
A free woman, I suspect, as she is free, cannot begin to understand the nature and world of the slave.
12
13
What free woman, wise and noble in her freedom, can grasp the consciousness, the fears, the hopes, the helplessnesses, the vulnerabilities, the terrors, the despairs, the desires, the feelings, the joys, the passions, the wholeness, the identity, of the slave? Suppose a w...
14
39
In any event, I knew Lysander was not companioned in the sense of the free companionship, and this seemed to be the case with three of the others, as well, as their charming partners gave no indication of being free companions, either of their partners or of any other, wh...
Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor
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11
132
There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities;...
1
63
Is it so strange that a lightly-clad, collared, owned animal, sexual and beautiful, exciting and needful, her slave fires kindled by the will and doings of men, might be found, however undeservedly, of interest to men? What man would wish, save for social or economic adva...
11
57
men who had betrayed Home Stones, men who had abandoned them, men who had, by deeds or words, dishonored Home Stones, men who had lived for years, lost and separate, alone and miserable, without Home Stones, looked suddenly at one another, wild...
11
419
"I know you! From Earth! From Earth! I know you! You know me! From Earth! From Earth!" He was here, on Gor! He was in the garb of the free! He would know me! He must have connections, relationships, power! He would free me! He would rescue me! He would save me! I would be...
40
312
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had...
46
561
How utterly different is the movement of a slave from that of a free woman, how uninhibited, how free, how profound, how unapologetically, sinuously brazen, how radically and rawly female; the free woman dances her beauty, the slave, in all her...
1
293
All freemen are addressed as "Master," of course, and all free women as "Mistress".
6
306
How much they were at the mercy of freemen, but are not all slaves at the mercy of the free? The curtain was open.
23
79
"These men and their glorious free women! He would be horrified to have the modesty of a free woman compromised, even so slightly, but they would think nothing of being served by a needful, begging slave, naked save for her collar!" "Hold," he ...
24
151
free women can speak sharply and unpleasantly to freemen.
17
141
Jokesters make fun of them; children steal and hide their crutches and sing insulting songs in their presence, keeping clear of their reach; free women will not look upon them; such pieces of men and parts of men must smilingly endure being moc...
29
17
What does it matter that one might be the provably, indisputably best at one thing or another, in a city, on a continent, or on a world? How thoughtless, unquestioned, and cruel are the imperatives of vanity! What are the vanities of women, free or slave, compared to the ...
1
169
They were the sort of women of whom men dream, the sort of women who are avidly sought, whose beauty could open doors and smooth ways, women who were accustomed to having their way with men, the sort whom men hastene...
3
360
men are thus to become less like men, and more like women, and women are to become less like women, and more like men.
46
672
I did not fear for myself, for Gorean men, and men such as Gorean men, are very fond of women.
1
64
Indeed, in a sense, no one is really free or not free.
2
143
Did I not know I was a slave? Was it not clear enough, when I was released from the cage, and knelt, my head to the floor, my crossed wrists lifted high behind me for binding? Could there be any doubt about the matter when I knelt, bound, before the master, and, my head lifted, the whip was put to m...
2
154
"This is all a terrible mistake! Clothe me! Take this collar off my neck! I should not be here! This is not my world! I do not belong here! I cannot be sold! I am a woman of Earth! Of Earth! I cannot be sold! I am free, free!" He looked at me, puzzled.
3
172
Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian,...
3
271
Lonely, and then angry, frustrated, arrant, and contemptuous, I had come to despise the males of Earth as weaklings, as little more than docile, pliant sources of gifts, books, flowers, candy, jewelry, free dinners, free entertainment, and such.
4
27
We are clothed, when clothed, in such a way as, in the opinion of the free women, to shame, humiliate, and degrade us, but, perhaps to the chagrin of free women, we soon grow fond of our tunics and collars.
10
94
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous v...
11
155
I would tend to move well to the side, my head lowered, if passing a free woman, while, if passing a free male, I would tend to keep my eyes straight ahead.
11
189
One is under the scrutiny of the free, particularly that of hostile free women.
11
653
Let the free be free, and the slaves be slaves.
12
49
The slave is free to be uncritically, unquestioningly sexual, free to be her vital, natural, needful, uninhibited self.
20
7
How I was to taunt him, how I was to make him suffer, how I was to bend him to my will, how I was to manipulate him! All these aims and ambitions had vanished; how barren proved such absurd projects and programs; these tactics and formulas had evaporated; did I still think I was a free...
24
228
Why would the Lady Dorna, a free woman, want to have an innocent slave cast to tharlarion? Was she angry that I had not revealed secrets to her, that Adraste was the former Lady Julia Leta, scion of a minor banking family, the Claudian Marcelliani, their house on Ar's Street of Coins? ...
25
55
I seek to find her to free her, to return her to the glorious station of the free citizeness.
36
126
Yesterday, when I was bringing Florian's list of, and inventory of, ka-la-nas of Market of Semris upstairs from one of the wine cellars to the office of Luma, a free woman, the only free woman in the holding as far as I knew, who was seemingly the accountant and business ...
Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor
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29
75
"As I am a slave, I must call all freemen 'Master' and all free women 'Mistress'".
6
78
Perhaps some of the women who despised men would consider buying her for themselves, if only to keep her, a natural woman, fittingly the slave of men, from men.
16
248
In this way the men help the island and the island, in turn, helps the men, giving the men a rich offshore camp or base".
17
186
"What do you think," I asked, "of the men of your former world?" "As the women did not know they were women," she said, "so, too, I fear, the men did not know they were men".
4
139
"We are not slaves, we are free women, noble free women, of good caste, of Naxos.
6
148
The use of the expression 'Master' to a free man or 'Mistress' to a free woman is expected of a slave.
10
58
If one is a slave, why should one not be a slave? Let the free woman be free; let the slave be a slave.
17
208
Let the free be free; let the slave be slave.
17
358
If a free woman should pronounce herself a slave, she is, then, instantly, no longer a free woman but a slave.
19
103
free women, too, I have heard, from several slaves who were once free women, often feel the inclination, the impulse, the desire, the temptation, to kneel before a suitable male.
19
128
Most of the women were free, but some slaves were also in evidence, approximately one slave to every fifteen or twenty free women.
21
15
Along these lines, the trysts, liaisons, and affairs of free women may not be secrets as well kept as the free women are likely to believe.
28
52
"We are free women, noble and free!" cried Philomena.
36
95
"I am proud! I am now myself! I have never felt more free, I have never been more free!" "Slaves!" exclaimed Margot.
13
70
"Behold, and know this," I said I to them, "we are the avengers, the retaliators, the freemen of the Farther Islands, the Friends of Nicosia, and other decimated and razed villages.
18
210
In the case of the free woman, mysterious, exalted, lofty, veiled, possibly beautiful, and inaccessible, particularly in a long voyage, as tensions rise, one has something analogous to fresh, raw meat cast before hungry sleen, or, say, a banquet placed before starving men...
19
84
They were borne, I noted, not by slaves, but freemen who had more the look of mercenaries than bearers.
29
147
Are they trying to present themselves for the perusal of Masters? Do they not know how stimulating and exciting their features are to men? The three slaves lowered the veils they had worn as free women.
35
199
"You will free the men?" asked Clitus.
44
1
Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fe...
45
59
If supplies should seem to be missing from the other two areas, we could place a guard there as well, but we preferred to keep menfree for the walls and gate.
46
19
This was not a time amongst men, the time of this banquet, for tenderness, but a time for distraction, for forgetfulness, not a time for regrets and sorrows, but a time for thrusting such things to the side, not a time for farewells and tears but a time for laughing and drinking, for t...
48
104
I watched while the two men wearing scarves worked Tarchon's body free of the pole.
2
108
"And many men, men far beyond oarsmen and mariners, perhaps six hundred".
5
83
The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar.
17
192
What can a woman be to such men but a slave, hoping to be found acceptable, hoping desperately to please them, and as the slave she is?" "I suspect that there is very little difference, if any," I said, "biologically, between the men of Earth and those of Gor.
20
71
"Stay where you are!" Uniformed, armed men had thrust through the rents in the canvas, pushing men closer together, until, in a moment, there was no longer an aisle in the tent.
20
147
At this point the leader of the uniformed men cried out, turned about, and fled through the slashed canvas, while his men took their exits similarly.
32
3
A small contingent of the corsairs, some ten men, was advancing before the larger column, consisting, we supposed, of some eight hundred men.
34
34
"In your recent parley with the false Bosk of Port Kar," said Thurnock, "before permitting him and his men, weaponless and shorn of valuables, to return to the beach, you claimed you had a Peasant Army of some five thousand men at your disposal, indeed, one being aug