Punishment for slaves

~ Slave Punishments ~

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one. She will almost never encounter sadism or wanton cruelty, for the psychological environment that tends to breed these diseases is largely absent on Gor. This does not mean that she will not expect to be beaten if she disobeys, or fails to please her Master."

Outlaw of Gor, page 56

"When one who is a slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceeded by lengthy torture."

Assassin of Gor, page 74

"Harold, as a boy, had once been a slave in the baths, those of the city of Turia, before he had escaped. He had told me that sometimes a Bath Girl, to discipline her, is thrown to the slaves in the darkness.

Assassin of Gor, page 164

" 'What is to be done with us?' demanded Verna.
'Curiosity,' said Marlenus, 'is not becoming in a Kajira. You might be beaten for it.' "

Hunters of Gor, page 142

" 'I will not eat the gruel of bond-maids,' said Aelgifu.
'You will eat it' said the Forkbeard, 'or you will be stripped and put to the oar.'
She looked at him in horror.
'That will not violate you my pretty,' said the Forkbeard.
In this punishment the girl, clothe or unclothed, is bound tightly to an oar, hands behind her, her head down, toward the blade. When the oar lifts from the water she gasps for breath, only in another moment to be submerged again. A recalcitrant girl may be kept on the oar for hours. There is also, however some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north occasionally attempt to tear such a girl from the oar. When food is low, it is not unknown for the men of Torvaldsland to use a bond-maid, if one is available on the ship, for bait in such a manner. The least pleasing girl is always used. This practice, of course encourages bond-maids the vie vigorously to please their masters. An Ahn on the oar is usually more than sufficient to make the coldest and proudest of females an obedient, eager-to-please bond-maid."

Marauders of Gor, page 66

" 'A girl in a collar is not permitted inhabitions,' she said. It was true, slave girls must reveal their sexual nature, totally. Do they not do so, they are beaten."

Marauders of Gor, page 278

"Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. It was slave bread, rough and coarse-grained. The beauty ate it eagerly. She had not known if she was to be fed that day. sometimes the slave is not fed. this might occur for aesthetic reasons, as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept, should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends, totally, for her very life; sometimes as a training or disciplinary measure; sometimes merely to startle or puzzle her; what has she done; she is not told; has she not been sufficiently pleasing; she is not told; the girl, frightened, anxious, redoubles her efforts to please in all the thoughsand spheres of her slavery,intellectual, physical and imaginative; no master, it is said, who has not denied his girl food knows her; pleasant indeed are the surprises which such a fellow, who thought thitherto he knew his girl, upon the completion of the simple experiment, receives the girl's wits are sharpended; she becomes resourceful, helpless, desperate, attentive, inventive; 'Feed me, Master,' she begs. 'Feed me!'; at the conculusion of such an experiment, when she is fed, it is always, kneeling naked, from his hand. The lesson is not soon forgotten. Few things so impress the dominance of a male on a woman, and her dependence on him, as his control of her food. this dominance, provided it is absolute, thrills a woman to the core."

Tribesman of Gor, page 48

"I had been thrown to my Master's men. One after another had raped and beaten me, and thrown me to the next. I was handed about as an object fierce was the discipline that they handed me."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 94

"I could not believe the pain of the whip. I could not even conjecture what it would be to feel a true slave whip on my body. Yet I knew a girl could be subjected to a full and lengthy lashing by the true slave whip for so small a thing as having failed in some way that she might not even understand to be completely pleasing to the master. Indeed, she could be subjected to such a lashing for no other reason than that it pleased the master to do so. I had now, for the first time, the former Judy Thorton, felt a whip. I groaned in misery. I now had a new insight into the condition of my slavery. I would do anything, eagerly, the masters wanted."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 203

"Generally he disciplined me with a cuff of the flat of his hand. I respected him. He managed me well."

Slave Girl of Gor, page 247

"Whereas he first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees, this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape."

Slave Girl of Gor, page 331

" 'Please Master,' she said 'Take pity on me. Take pity on the miserable needs of a slave girl.'
'You are not mine " I told her, " You are a pretty little thing, but I do not own you.'
'Please,' she said.
'Your master,' I said, 'if he chooses, will satisfy your needs. If he does not, he will not.' For all I knew she might be under the discipline of deprivation. If that were so, I had no wish to impair the effectiveness of her master's control over her. Besides I did not know him. I did not wish to do him dishonor, whoever he might be.
'Does your master know you are begging in the streets?' I asked.
'No,' she said, frightened.
'Then,' said I, 'perhaps I should have your hands tied and write that upon your body.' "

Beasts of Gor, pages 48 - 49

"She was dressed, save for her bondage strings, in much the same way as most of the women of the red hunters, bare-breasted, with high boots and panties. Thistle, however, behind her, was naked, in a northern yoke and on a leather leash.
...
'We are going to pick moss and grass,' she said.
'That is good,' I said. 'Why is Thistle yoked?'
'It pleased me, Master,' said Thimble, first girl.
'Was she insubordinate?' I asked. 'She said a sharp word to me,' said Thimble.
'Did you switch her, too?' I asked. 'Of course, Master,' said Thimble.
'Excellent,' I said. Discipline must be kept in the tent."
Beasts of Gor, pages 196 - 197

" 'Sometimes, Masters, as a discipline, rent their girls out to employers to perform repetitious, trivial tasks.' "
Beasts of Gor, page 249

" 'I think I could well serve such a master,' she said.
'You would,' I said, 'or you, being a slave, would be promptly and efficiently disciplined, most likely whipped.'
'Whipped?' she asked, 'Could such a man whip a girl?'
'Of course,' I said. 'Do not think that the pleasure he finds in you will be permitted in the least to compromise his mastery of you.'
'I would thrill to be owned by such a man,' she said."
Beasts of Gor, page 249

"...it is difficult for a woman who is naked before a man to lie to him. Clothing makes it easier to lie. Naked, a woman is exposed not only physically to a man but, in a sense, psychologically, as well. She fears psycholocgically, exposed as she is, that she can hide nothing, that he will see all, and detect all, that she is uttlerly open and vulnerable to him in all ways. This, for subtle and subjective reasons, having to do with psycholog, makes it hard for her, when she is fully exposed to his scrutiny, to lie convincingly. She fears, somehow, he will know. And, actually, of course there is something to her fear, indeed, a great deal. When she tries to lie there is a fear involved and this fear, in subtle ways, in subtle drawings back, in tensensenesses, is manifested in her beautiful body, proclaiming it that of a liar. Many times a girl does not know how the master knows she is lying. At the slave ring, struck, she cries out in her misery. How could he have known? The answer is simple. Her body betrayed her. It told him. Too, slave girls seldom lie, for the punishments connected with lying can be extremely severe. A girl may be thrown alive to sleen for lying."
Beasts of Gor, pages 299 - 300

"The girl had now learned that her feet might be cut from her for running away, that her ears and nose might be cut from her for lying. She was still an ignorant girl, of course, but she now knew a little more of what it might be to be a slave on Gor."

Explorers of Gor, page 69

"I looked out the door of the shop. I could see the girl, about one hundred and fifty yards away, her wrists crossed and bound before her, tied by the wrists to a heavy ring at the side of the pier. She knelt. Then the first stroke of the whip hit her. She screamed. Then she could scream no more but was twisting, gasping, on her stomach, and side and back, under the blows of the whip. I think she had not understood before what it might mean, truly, to be whipped. Men passed her, going about their business. The discipling of a slave girl on Gor is not that unusual a sight."

Explorers of Gor, page 70

"I think she had not realized what the whip could do to her.
Yet the beating had been merciful and brief. I doubt that she was struck more than ten or fifteen times.
I think the purpose of the whipping had been little more than to teach her what the whip could feel like. A girl who knows what the whip can feel like strives to be pleasing to the master."

Explorers of Gor, page 71

"I looked at the girl. She had tried to run away. She had lied at the praetor's desk. Yet her feet had not been removed. Her nose and ears had not been cut from her. She had been shown incredible mercy. She had only been whipped. Her transgressions, of course, had been first offenses, and she was only an ignorant barbarian. I think now, however, she clearly understood that Gorean men are not permissive, and that her second offenses in such matters would not be likely to be regarded with such lenience."

Explorers of Gor, pages 71 - 72

" 'Master,' said the girl.
'Yes,' I said.
'You need not have struck me, earlier this afternoon,' she said. 'But I suppose that you are the judge of that, for you are the Master,' she added, airily.
I looked at her.
'Surely one needs a reason for striking a slave,' she said.
'No,' I said.
'I see,' she said, putting her head down. She trembled.
'Come here,' I said. 'Kneel before me, back on your heels.'
She did so, looking at me. 'Master?' she asked.
Suddenly I struck her, a fierce blow which flung her, mouth bloodied, to her side in the dirt.
I stood up. 'Do you see?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she whispered, looking up at me, horrified.
'Now kneel before me and kiss my feet,' I said, 'and thank me for having struck you.'
Tremblingly, she crawled to me, and knelt before me. She put her head down. I felt her lips on my feet. 'Thank you for having struck me, Master,' she whispered. She looked up at me.
'Do you now understand that you are a slave?' I asked.
'Yes, Master,' she said.
'Do you still think that a Master requires a reason to strike you?' I asked.
'No, Master,' she said.
'And why is that?' I asked.
'Because I am a slave,' she said."

Explorers of Gor, page 295

"Also, it might be noted that most Gorean warfare is carried out largely by relatively small groups of professional soldiers, seldom more than a few thousand in the field at a given time, trained men, who have their own caste. Total warfare, with its arming of millions of men, and its broadcast slaughter of hundreds of populations, is Gorean neither in concept nor in practice. Goreans, often castigated for their cruelty, would find such monstrosities unthinkable. Cruelty on Gor, though it exists, is usually purposeful, as in attempting to bring, through discipline and privation, a young man to manhood, or in teaching a female that she is a slave."

Fighting Slave of Gor, page 145

"She was then conducted top the small side door, through which the [paga] attendant had emerged. Beyond it, I gathered, would lie such things as the kitchens, the offices, the cellars and pantries, the storage rooms, the dressing rooms, the discipline chamber and the kennels."

Rogue of Gor, page 22

" 'Tela, when captured,' he said, indicating a blonde, 'begged to be kept in white silk." He laughed. 'After throwing her to a crew, for their pleasure, we put her, as she had asked, in white silk.'
'Amusing,' I said.
'She now often begs for red silk,' he said."
Rogue of Gor, pagev 197

" 'What do you think should be her punishment?' asked Callimachus of me.
'If she is guilty,' I said, 'whatever you wish, as she is a slave.' This was in full accord with Gorean law. Indeed, anything, for whatever reason, or without a reason, may be done to a slave."

Guardsman of Gor, page 115

" 'I am so ashamed,' she said. 'I was so humiliated.'
'I understand,' I said. The females of the red savages, with their laughter and catcalls, in particular, would not have made the lovely slave's ordeal any easier. Too, that a given girl has been beaten, and has thus, presumably, failed to be fully pleasing in some way, makes her an object of contempt and ridicule among other girls. Little love is lost, commonly, between competitive slave girls. Girls commonly like seeing other girls being beaten, whom they think are too proud, or whom they don't like. It is almost a holiday in the slave quarters when a high slave is to be whipped, particularly if she is then to be reduced to the status of a common girl.
'Am I permitted to feel shame, humiliation?' she asked, angrily.
'Of course,' I said. 'Those are emotions which are permitted to slaves.'
'How generous are the masters,' she said.
'Too, shame and humiliation, like chains and whips, can be useful disciplinary devices.'
'Of course,' she said.
'A shamed, humiliated slave, tied and beaten, is usually swift thereafter to learn her lessons,' I said."

Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 72 - 73

" 'We may protest, of course, if the masters see fit to permit it,' said Mira, 'But then, when we are finished, our discipline is reimposed upon us, perhaps even more severely.' 'Discipline?' breathed the girl. 'Yes,' said Mira, 'the slave girl is subject to discipline and punishment. She is owned, like a sleen or tarsk is owned. She is owned, literally owned, You must understand that in its full sense. Accordingly, anything may be done with her that the master wishes. She may even be slain, if the master wishes.' 'Then the slave girl is totally helpless,' said the girl. 'She is totally at the mercy of the master.' 'Yes,' said Mira. 'I would like that,' said the girl. 'Oh?' asked Mira. 'Are you happy?' asked the girl. 'Yes, incredibly so.' 'Do you not desire freedom?' asked the girl. 'The only freedom I would now desire,' said Mira 'would be the freedom to be totally a slave.' "

Blood Brothers of Gor, page 296

"Insubordination, slaves are quickly taught, is not acceptable, in any way, to the Gorean master."

Kajira of Gor, page 123

"accordingly I had found myself relating to him in deep, real, primitive, sexual, natural, biological manner, in a manner certainly not that of a free woman, but rather of a slave or a very *friendly* person. I, nonetheless found this to be quite fulfilling. Something in me found it quite rewarding to relate to a man in this fashion. I found it very stimulating to know that if I did not please him he might punish me."

Kajira of Gor, page 238

" 'Will you truly be hard with me, Master?' I asked. 'Yes, Slave,' he said.
'Subject even to discipline, if I displease you?' I asked.
'Subject to discipline, at my pleasure, whether you displease me or not,' he said.
'My bondage will then be absolute,' I said.
'Of course, Slave,' he said."

Slave Girl or Gor, page 445

" 'Any free man may discipline an insolent or errant slave,' I said, 'even one who is the least bit displeasing, even one he might merely feel like disciplining. If she is killed, or injured, he need only pay compensation to her master, and that only if the master can be located within a specific amount of time and requests such compensation.' In virtue of such customs and statutes the perfect discipline under which Gorean slaves are kept is maintained and guaranteed even when they are not within the direct purview of their masters or their appointed agents."

Players of Gor, page 135 or 235?

" 'I do not think you have beaten her much lately,' said Boabissia.
'No,' I said.
'Why not?' asked Boabissia.
'She is now pretty well trained,' I said.
' "Trained",' said Boabissia.
'Yes,' I said, 'ideally, once a girl is trained, suitably trained, of course, there is not likely to be much call for beating her. She may also, of course,' I said, 'be beaten at the master's pleasure, for any reason or for no reason.' "
Mercenaries of Gor, page 233

"Some girls, whose hunger for bondage is just under the surface, if not manifest, are probably prepared to be superb slaves almost instantly, with no pain, or perhaps no more than a modicum of pain, perhaps only enough to assure them of the reality of their condition, that they are truly slaves, and subject to the strict discipline of an uncompromising master. Such women, eager to serve, rejoicing in the achievement at long last of this profound fulfillment, hitherto only dreamed of, ask little more than what to do and how to do it."

Mercenaries of Gor, pages 333 - 334

" 'Did you strike me because I challenged your manhood?' she asked...
'You were not struck for such an absurd reason,' I said... 'You were struck, rather, because you were attempting to manipulate me.' "

Mercenaries of Gor, page 422

" ‘Your condition is not what you do, but what you are.’ "
" ‘To be sure, susceptibility to the beating, similarly to an occupational hazard, in its way, is an inevitable concomitant of what will be your condition. The frequency and nature of these beatings will probably depend much on you. If you are pleasing, and perfectly so, you may or may not be beaten.’ "

Dancer of Gor, page 62

"I put my head down gratefully. I was pleased that he was pleased. Girls such as I are eager to please such men. It makes us happy to do so. It satisfies something warm, and deep and marvelous, in the very bottom of our bellies to do so. If we do not, of course, they simply see to it that we do. Our behaviour is then quickly, and often painfully, corrected."

Dancer of Gor, page 70

"The dancing of the female before the male, that she be found pleasing and he be pleased, is one of the most profound lessons in all of human biology. Others are when she kneels before him, when she kisses his feet, when she performs obeisance, when she knows herself subject, truly, to his whip."
Dancer of Gor, page 193

"If a command needs to be repeated as the saying goes, the girl needs to be punished."

Dancer of Gor, Page 211

"The slave girl within the city, incidentally, commonly receives a great deal of freedom. She normally can do much what she wants, and go much where she wishes. Her mobility and freedom in such respects is often greater than that accorded to free women. This freedom and mobility does not matter greatly, of course, since she is branded and collared. To be sure, she is seldom allowed outside the walls of of a city unless in the company of a free person. Similarly, if an appropriate free person is available, she must request permission to leave the house. At this time, she will probably also have the Ahn of her return specified for her. Similarly, if an appropriate free person is available, she must report in to that person, when she returns... Many houses are strict about such matters. Being late can be a matter for discipline."

Renegades of Gor, page 413

" 'I will not try to escape, Master,' said the girl. 'I wonder,' mused Marcus 'I am collared,' she said 'I am branded.'
'True,' said Marcus. In this way she had suggested that even if she might desire to escape such hope would be forlorn for her. She was reminding him of the categoricality of her condition, its absoluteness, of the hopelessness of escape for such as she, a female held in Gorean bondage. For example, there are not only such obvious things as the collar and brand, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with its social, legal and institutional recognition of, and inflexible enforcement of, her condition. There is, accordingly, for all practical purposes, no escape for the Gorean slave girl. At best she might, at great risk to her own life, succeed in obtaining a new chaining, a new Master, and one who, in view of her flight, will undoubtedly see to it that she is incarcerated in harsher bondage than that from which she fled, to which, now, under her new strictures, she is likely to look back upon longingly. Similarly the penalties for attempted escape, particularly a second attempt, are severe, usually involving hamstringing. Only the most stupid of women dares even to think of escape, and then seldom more then once."

Magician of Gor, page 32 - 33

"The discipline of a slave may be attended to by any free person, otherwise she might do much what she wished, provided only her Master did not learn of it. The legal principle is clear, and has been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar."

Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 122

" 'You cannot punish me!' she cried. 'You are not my masters!'
'Any free person can punish an errant slave girl,' I said. 'Surely you do not think that her behavior fails to be subject to supervision and correction as soon as she is out of her Master's sight?' "

Magicians, of Gor, page 225

"Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive."

Magicians of Gor, page 428


ankle rack
: device used to lock a girl's ankles in wooden stockage. Girls who have been repeated runaways may be held in place to have their tendons cut or feet amputated.
Explorers of Gor, page 68

binding fiber
: stout twine made of strips of leather or of a fiber like hemp; a piece long enough to circle a slave girl's waist 2-3 times is often used as a belt for her slave tunic.
Tarnsman of Gor, page 64
Dancer of Gor, pages 375, 376, and 383

binding strap
: a strap 3/4 inches wide and 18 inches long commonly used for binding the wrists and/or ankles of prisoners and slaves
Guardsman of Gor, page 237 and 274

body chain
: closely meshed length of chain about 5 feet in length which can be used in a variety of ways to bedeck or secure a slave. Some are decorated with semi-precious stones and wooden beads. Detachable lock and snap clips allow the chain to be transformed from slave jewelry to slave restraint.
Rogue of Gor, pages 71-72
Guardsman of Gor, page 281

bond-maid circle
:a female who enters the circle, drawn in the dirt for example, is declaring herself a bond-maid by the laws of Torvaldsland. She may enter voluntarily or be thrown into it bound and naked.
Marauders of Gor, page 44

hook bracelets
: leather cuffs with locks on them and snaps; they are soft and the snaps require no key. Some men enjoy them on their slaves; by means of the straps the girl may be variously secured by the locked cuffs
Slave Girl of Gor, page 297

slave bracelets
: any of a variety of handcuff type restraints; used to restrain the wrists of slaves and others; usually metal.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 156

brand
: burned into the flesh of animals and slaves to mark them as property; specific brands include the kef (common kajira brand), Dina, Palm, mark of Treve, mark of Port Kar, mark of the Tahari, mark of Torvaldsland etc.
Outlaw of Gor, page 189
Hunters of Gor, page 51

branding rack
: a device to which a new slave girl is chained for branding; her hands are chained above her head but the rest of her body is free to move except for whichever thigh is to be branded this being held motionless in a large vise.
Explorers of Gor, page 71
Savages of Gor, page 121

breeding cell
: also called a breeding stall. A slave who is designated to be bred is taken there. Both kajira and kajirus are hooded and though they will never know the other's identity their coupling is public, observed by Masters and others.
Dancer of Gor, page 175

plastic cage
: a means of exhibiting slave girls outside a slaver's establishment suspended from the roof of the portico or in a tier of cages with a comely wench inside.
Assassin of Gor, page 286

capture knot
: a knot recognized for it's unique turnings as rope or binding fiber tied by a Warrior; usually in the capture of a slave girl but also used on any likely foe.
Explorers of Gor, page 58

cordage of catapult
: an example of how the female slave on Gor, 'earns her keep'. Even her hair, described as soft, glossy, silky and resilient, stronger than vegetable fibers and more weather resistant, is used, shaved from her head, as raw material for catapult cordage.
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 245
Mercenaries of Gor, page 302
Vagabonds of Gor, pages 8 and 44
Magicians of Gor, page 49

coffle
: a method of chaining a line of slaves together for trekking; common methods are to link the slaves by the left ankle left wrist or throat; also the line of slaves itself; sometimes called a 'slaver's necklace'.
Savages of Gor, page 135

coffle collar
-(Noun): various types of steel collars with rings front and/or back to hook 3 to 4 ft lengths of chain between them; some hinged in the back.
Savages of Gor, page 135

deck cage
: small cages fastened to the deck of a ship to transport slaves not kept in hold.
Explorers of Gor, page 26

display chain
: slave girls who are sold in groups are put into a chain which may be fastened taut at either end; the girls are spaced on the chain so that they don't crowd together and be more easily displayed; unclothed always.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 14

double leashing
: a method of slave control. Either two collars with leashes are affixed to her neck, or a collar with a leash on opposite sides is used.
Magicians of Gor, pages 360-361

face-strip
-(verb): to remove the veil(s) worn by a free woman; to do so usually means that she is to be enslaved.
Rogue of Gor, page 176
Kajira of Gor, page 183
Dancer of Gor, page 295

four chains
-(noun): method of chaining a girl used frequently in taverns of Port Kar.
Explorers of Gor, page 42

common gag
: heavy, rolled-leather wadding thrust back behind the teeth, over the tongue of a slave, secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it.
Dancer of Gor, page 271

girl-capture chain
: short chain used specifically to capture without serious damage; similar to the garrote in use but with chain in place of thin wire.
Savages of Gor, page 180

girl-yoke
: a narrow piece of wood with holes drilled in the middle and at each end. To secure a girl, thongs are looped through each end hole and the hole at the neck, attached to both wrists and neck.
Savages of Gor, page 281

handle tie
: a girl's ankles are ties together with 12 inches between them and her wrists are bound before her with a lengthy tether; this tether is then drawn between her legs and tied about her neck forming a 'handle' that a Free Person can use to lead her.
Beasts of Gor. page 173

Harl ring
: form of slave chain which consists of an ankle ring with a welded ring in back and a chain in front. The chains terminate in a locking device which can be attached to another Harl ring around a post or to itself in order to secure a slave. This chain was developed by Harl of Turia.
Hunters of Gor, page 208

initiatory whipping
: the beating usually of about 10 strokes which a slave girl receives upon being brought into a new house-hold to remind her that she is a slave and under discipline. Sometimes called the lesson of the leather. A final blow delivered at the end of the initiatory whipping is called the gratis or mnemonic blow.
Rogue of Gor, pages 129 and 130
Guardsman of Gor, pages 204 and 205

iron belt
: commonly consisting of a horizontal metal bar or strap that snugly encircles a girl's waist with a vertical component attached to the front of this horizontal bar with a hinge. The vertical component is then swung up between a slave's legs and all are fastened at the small of the back with a padlock. Locked around a girl, it ensures that she will not be sexually used by any, save the one with the key.
Kajira of Gor, page 103
Dancer of Gor, page 299
Magicians of Gor, pages 57 and 293

iron pens
: the subterranean retention facilities in a Slaver's house where slaves are kept for training and prior to sale.
Assassin of Gor, pages 117 and 273

kurt
: the five-bladed slave whip.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 83

leash
: various types of rope, fiber, chain, etc. used to restrict a slave from flight or movement. The rope or fiber chains may be corded with wire to prevent them from being shredded by chewing.
Magicians of Gor, page 195

leg tied leashed
: a standard submission tie; the kneeling girl has the leash, attached to her collar, passed down the front of her body and between her legs to bind her crossed ankles together.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 244

leg-spreader
: devices of various complexity designed to keep a slave girl's legs spread while being used sexually by her master(s); sometimes used on male captives as an indication of humiliation; used mostly among the Red Savages of the Barrens.
Savages of Gor, page 162

mul cases
: transparent plastic tube in which a mul sleeps.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 110

open-legged tie
: right wrist is tied to right ankle, and left wrist to left ankle, with about six or seven inches of slack between wrist and ankle. It is not good for general security but is it a good and familiar slave tie. One advantage of this is that a girl may kneel comfortably for hours.
Savages of Gor, page 207

pleasure rack
: a device ranging in complexity from a grid of ropes in a wooden frame to a moveable adjustable frame with chains for the display and sexual use of slave girls and captive free women
Outlaw of Gor, page 199
Rogue of Gor, page 21

ravishment lamp
: a small tharlarion- oil lamp found in the chamber of a master; its soft glow is sufficient to illuminate a slave girl during her sexual use.
Guardsman of Gor, page 203

ring lock
: there are many varieties of these locks, one being the combination padlock with numbers of rotating disks which, when aligned properly, allow the lock to open. -
Explorers of Gor, page 292

scarlet rug
: a submission rug used in Tharna on which a free woman naked and bound with yellow cords must submit as slave to her master first hearing him recite a ritual poem then yielding physically.
Outlaw of Gor, page 205

slave box, punishment
: small square (3x3') iron box with a door having a viewing aperture of 7 inches x1/2 inches in the middle and a pass-through of 12x2 inches at the base; a punishment device for slaves.
Captive of Gor, pages 313-314

transportation slave box
: small, iron box used for the transportation of slaves.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 120

identificatory slave bracelet
: used in lieu of a collar, described as silver, it is attached to the wrist of a slave. Information about the owner is inscribed.
Magicians of Gor, pages 430, 441, and 459

slave bracelets
: manacles of various types intended to restrain the wrists of a slave; some are akin to handcuffs while some are almost jewelry light restraining bracelets made of blue and gold stones.
Tarnsman of Gor, page 102
Dancer of Gor, page 218

slave cage
: small, stout, wooden cord-bound, thick-barred cage adequate for the confinement of bound slaves. A wooden gate, tied shut, secures it.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 220

slave goad
: an electrical device much like a cattle prod used for controlling and disciplining slaves.
Assassin of Gor, page 84

slave hobble
: a chain consisting of a wrist-ring and an ankle-ring joined by 7 inches of chain it is fastened on one ankle and the opposite wrist.
Nomads of Gor, page 154

slave hood
: a leather hood having no opening for eyes mouth or ears which covers a slave's entire head; usually has a gag attachment.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 146

slave locker
: a sort of temporary slave box available at a depot for fee carts, for example. Once the slave has entered the locker, a tarsk bit is inserted which allows for the turning and removal of the key, which the owner pockets until his return. This kind of slave locker is unattended.
Vagabonds of Gor, pages 423-424
Magicians of Gor, page 67

slave mat
: a course mat made of straw to which area a slave girl may be ordered for discipline or use, the girl may not leave the mat unless permitted by her master.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 74

slave oval
: a method of chain a slave girl consisting of a hinged iron loop which locks around her waist with two sliding wrist- rings and a welded ring in the middle of the back.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 146

slave rape
: the sexual use of a slave girl; may be either tender or bruta, casual, deliberate or disciplinary.
Tribesman of Gor, page 34
Guardsman of Gor, page 184

slave ring
: a heavy iron ring c. 1' in diameter to which a slave may be secured for security discipline or any other reason; often found in floors interior & exterior walls (either 1' or 3' above the ground) attached to the foot of a master's sleeping couch, etc.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 48

slave sack
: a sack used primarily to transport slaves that ties off on at one end.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 244

slave stake
: about four and one half feet in length and four inches in width, cut from wood. At it's top, about two inches from the end, a groove an inch deep is cut. A long leather tether is attached to a slave's neck and affixed to the stake. It is used for securing a slave for the night, for example.
Explorers of Gor, page 349

slave steel
-(noun): generic term for collars chains siriks etc. worn by slaves.
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 158

slave strap
: heavy strap or belt which buckles behind the wearer's back; in front there is a metal plate with a welded ring through which passes the 4 hort (5 inches) chain of a pair of slave bracelets; designed to keep the wearer's hand before his body.
Hunters of Gor, page 65

slave trap
: a trap of powerful steel that is lined by sharp teeth which snap shut on the slave's leg and locks closed until opened by a key. The trap is locked, unlike an animal trap to prevent it being pried open by strong hands.
Hunters of Gor, page 126

slave whistle
: used in issuing signals summoning slaves and so on.
Assassin of Gor, page 84

slave wire
: a closely interwoven latticework of sharp, swaying strands, set at intervals of less than a hort. Serves as a confining fence. It's barbs and prongs could cut a slave to pieces.
Dancer of Gor, page 347

slaver's caress
: a method of touching without warning a slave girl who is being sold in order to exhibit her slave heat for potential buyers; also known as the Whip Caress as it is commonly done using a coiled whip.
Assassin of Gor, pages 294-295
Explorers of Gor, page 40

slaver's necklace
: fanciful term for a coffle of slave girls.
Savages of Gor, page 107

vengence and contempt slavery
-(adv): one form of vengeance slavery is proxy slavery where one woman, totally innocent, is enslaved and made to stand proxy for a hated, but unavailable woman, even being given her name. Ironically, even though the original woman may be found, the proxy is not released from slavery.
Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 139-140

snake whip
: a whip made of heavy coil, laced with wire and flecks of iron, used primarily on male captive slaves.
Marauders of Gor, page 105
Beasts of Gor, pages 157 and 161

use discipline
: a punishment which avows the free man's prerogative to sexually use a house-owned girl as discipline. There are examples which state that these rights are governed by a Code, wherein a girl may not be used or disciplined without the permission of her owner.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 226
Beasts of Gor, page 174
Magicians of Gor, pages 329-330

use-master
: a master that is given temporary use of a girl by her owner
Savages of Gor, page 197
Dancer of Gor, page 207
Vagabonds of Gor, page 354

cage wagon
: used to transport both male and female slaves, this wagon has bars surrounding it that can be light or heavy in strength depending on the slaves transported; male slaves are commonly chained by neck, ankles and wrists to wooden stalls within.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 326

common slave wagon
: used to transport female slaves, it is covered in yellow and blue canvas with a single central bar running the length of the floor where the girl's ankles are attached; this bar is hinged on one end, near the wagon box, and locked near the wagon's gate.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 325

wagon, display
: flat-bedded and used to transport female slaves, this wagon has a metal framework that allows girls to be chained in alluring positions and viewed easily by those passing; sometimes one end of the wagon is used as an auction block and girls are sold directly off the wagon.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 326

walking chains
: adjustable chains fastened on the ankles of a slave girl to train her to walk with the length of stride preferred by her master.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

Whip of the Furs
: a method of disciplining slave girls by rape rather than by flogging; esp. popular in Torvaldsland.
Marauders of Gor, page 66

girl yoke
: a narrow piece of wood with holes drilled in the middle and at each end; to secure a girl in this yoke a thong is tied around one wrist the end of the thong then being passed through the hole in one end of the yoke; thong is then passed through the middle hole of the yoke wrapped around the girl's neck then passed back out through the same hole after which it is passed through the hole at the other end of the yoke so that her other wrist may be tied to the yoke
Beasts of Gor, page 196 and 197

silver yoke
: In Tharna, male slaves are brought into the presence of the Tatrix in a yoke made of solid silver, presumably to show the Tharnan's contempt for riches. The yoke itself was valuable enough to be the ransom of an Ubar.
Outlaw of Gor, page 91