| Gorean society is populated by many different types of people of different
caste and social status, but of all the inhabitants of the counter-earth,
few are as fascinating and complex as are those who dwell within the insulae
and shops, or behind walls and guards in the secret pleasure gardens and
relaxation pools of the city, performing their labors, managing their households,
taking their pleasures and seeing to the birth, maintenance and correct
training of the children of Gor. I am speaking of the civilized Gorean Free
Woman, the veiled matriarch of the free holdings of the high cities. |
| It is a difficult and perilous undertaking for a Gorean Free Woman to
maintain her status... in fact, a Gorean Free Woman is expected to choose
the option of free and honorable death rather than accept the fate of living
in slavery. In practice, however, this rarely occurs. Few women, even Gorean
women of high caste and social position, will willingly choose to suffer
a grisly death rather than brave the degradations of bondage. Nevertheless,
occasionally they do so, and the honor of such Free Women is exalted to
the skies. It is widely said of such women that they were truly free in
their hearts and therefore died free, and it is the actions of such persons,
which support the ancient Gorean belief that perhaps not ALL women were
born to be enslaved. |