Well Goreans, I had planned on doing a bit of a "channel review" (Watch out Excursus!) for you this week, but whatever that little bug is that is going around has clouded my thoughts, so I will sit my medicated self back and read :)

I wish you well

A quote:

         Earth girls have a reputation on Gor as being among the lowest and hottest of slaves. There are doubtless various reasons for this. Perhaps one is that Earth girls are alien to Gor and have no Home Stones. They are thus subject to unmitigated predation and total dominance. They are slave animals, completely. Gorean men, accordingly, treat them as such. In truth, of course, their womanhood is reborn and blossoms, as it can only in a situation in which the order of nature obtains and flourishes.

     A second reason, however, I suspect, why Earth girls make such astoundingly desirable slaves, is their background. In their native environments they encounter few but psychologically and sexually crippled men, men whose merest intuitions of their blood rights are likely to be productive of conditioned, internally administered shocks and anxieties, or externally administered sanctions of censorship, suppression, ridicule and denunciation, imposed by those who are perhaps only a bit more rigid and fearful than themselves. In such a world, largely the ideological product of superstition and hysteria, it is difficult for manhood to exist, even dormantly. Accordinly, when an Earth female finds herself translated to Gor, she finds herself, for the first time, in the presence of large numbers of men to whom nature and power are not anathema. Moreover, she is likely to find herself belonging to them. Beyond this, of course, the culture itself, for all it's possible defects and faults, is one which has been constructed to be congenial to the natural biological order, and neither antithetical to, nor contradictory of it. The culture has not suppressed the biotruths of human nature but found a place for them.

     The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, annobling her and exaulting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half starved and chained.

     An example of this sort of thing is the institution of female slavery. It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with it's hundreds of aspects and facets, legal, social and aesthetic. What a contrast is the beautiful, vended girl, branded and collared, desiring a master and trained to please one, kneeling before her purchaser and kissing his whip, with the brutish female, cowering under her master's club at the back of his cave. And yet, of course, both women are owned, and completely. But the former, the slave girls, is owned with all the power and authority of law. If anything, she is owned even more completely that her primitive forebear. Civilization, as well as nature, collaborates in her bondage, sanctifying and confirming it.

     It is no wonder that the institution of slavery provides the human female, in all her sensitivities and vulnerabilities, in all her psychophysical complexity, with the deepest fulfillments and most exquisite emotions she can know.

Guardsman of Gor pg 67-68