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| How brave women can be within the context of conventions ... did they not know that one day men might say to them, "The castle does not exist," and that they might then find themselves once again, the patience of men ended, the folly concluded, the game over, struck to their place in nature, gazing upward at masters? --Players of gor, page 129 It is unusual to find a woman unescorted outside the walls of a city, even near the walls. __ Outlaw of Gor, page 50 "Fool!" she said. "Sleen! I am Tarna!" She lifted the scimitar. "I am more than a match for any man!" she cried. I met her charge. She was not unskillful. I fended her blows. I did not lay the weight of my own steel on hers, that I not tire her arm. I let her strike, and slash, and feint and thrust. Twie she drew back suddenly in fear, almost a wince, or reflex, realzing she had exposed herself to my blade, but I had not struck her. "You are not a match for a warrior," I told her. It was true. I had crossed steel with hundreds of men, in practice and in the fierce games of war, who could have finished her, sweiftly and with ease, had they chosen to do so. In fury, again, she attacked. Again I met her attack, toying with the beauty. She wept, striking wildly. I was within her guard, the blade at her belly. She stepped back. Again, she fought. This time I moved toward her, letting her feel the weight of the steel, the weight of a man's arm. She suddenly found erself backed aainst a pillar. She could scarcely lift her arm. My blade was at her breast. I stepped back.She stumbled from the pillar, wild. Again she lifted the scimitar; again she tried to attack. I met her blade, high, forcing it down; she slipped to one knee, looking up, trying to keep the blade away; she wept; she had no leverage, her strength was gone; I thrust her back, and she fell on her back before me on the tiles; my left boot, heavy, was on her right wrist; the smallhand opened and the scimitar slipped tothe tiles; the point of the blade was at her throat. "Stand up," I told her. I broke her scimiatar at the hilt and flung it to a corner of the room. ... Hassan grinned. "She is your capture," he said. "First capture rights are yours." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page329 On Gor a woman normally travels only with a suitable retinue of armed guards. Women, on this barbaric world, are often regarded, unfortunately, as little more than love prizes, the fruits of conquest and seizure. Too often they are seen less as persons, human beings with rights, individuals worthy of concern and regrd than as potential pleasure slaves, silken, bangled prisoners, possible adornments to the pleasure gardens of their captors. There is a saying on Gor tht the laws of a city extend no further than its walls. --Outlaw of Gor, page 50 Something of the nature of the institution of caputre, and the Gorean's attitude toward it, becomes clear when it is understood that one of a young tarnsman's first missions is often the capture of a slave for her personal quarters. -- Outlaw of Gor, page 51 It was customary on Gor for a female captive to kneel in the preseences of her captor, but she was, after all, a Tatrix, and I did not wish to enforce the point. __Outlaw of Gor, page 133 "I think so," she said. " I think I wanted you to kill me." Then she looked at me. "But I am not sure." "Why did you want to die?" I asked. "I who was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, her eyes downcast, "did not wish to live as a slave." -- Outlaw of Gor, page 199 I knew that Dorna would have little chance alone on Gor. Resourceful as she was, even carrying riches as she must be, she was still only a woman and, on Gor, even a silver mask needs the sword of a man to protect her. She might fall prey to bests, perhaps even to her own tarn, or be captured by a roving tarnsman or a band of slavers. __Outlaw of Gor, page 243 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 warrior, be captured in her own quarters and, bound and hooded, be carried by tarn back over the wall of her own city. 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 not; moreover the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not, to the notion that it is of great importance to know how to please men; accordingly, even girls who will be free companions, and never slaves, learn the preparation and serving of exotic dishes, the art of walking, and standing, and being beautiful, the care of a mans equipment, the love dances of their city, and so on. Nomads of Gor, page 63 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. 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 woman. Thus when she has been irratable 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 the slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. It is the Gorean way of reminding her, should she need to be reminded, that she, too, is a woman, and thus to be dominated, to be subject to men. Should she be tempted to forget this basic fact of Gorean life the slave ring set in the bottom of each Gorean couch is there to refresh her memory. Gor is a man`s world. Priest Kings of Gor, page67 Any free woman who couches with another`s slave or readies for such, becomes, by law, herself a slave and the property of said slaves owner. Magicians of Gor, page 7 theft, or capture, if you prefer, conferred rights over me. I would belong to, and must fully serve, anyone into whose effective possession I came, even if it had been by theft. the original Master, of course, has the right to recover his property, which remains technically his for a period of one week. If I were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me even for a night, I could , actually in Gorean Law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly. Analogies are that it is not permitted animals to flee the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts in which they find themselves penned, that money must retain its value, and buying power, regardless of who has it in hand, and so on. Strictures of this sort, do not apply to free persons , such as free women. The free women is entitled to attempt to flee her captor , as best she can, and without penalty, even after the first night in his bonds, if she still chooses to do so. If she is enslaved, of course, then she is subject too, the same customs, and practices, and laws, as any other slave. Dancers of Gor, page 96 The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy. Outlaws of Gor, page 49 The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers. Nomads of Gor, page 9 |
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