Kirata
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Tal Bull, Well, I think that the way Gorean men view and treat their girls is part and parcel of what distinguishes them as Gorean. When a Gorean man buys a girl in the books, not as trade goods or for her labor but because he desires her, the nature of the relationship is repeatedly portrayed as having certain characteristics. A girl, of course, wants to be bought by a strong master who wants her for himself, muchly desiring and lusting for her, not for her brand. When a girl is bought, of course, it is commonly because the man wants her, she, the female, and is willing to put down his hard-earned money for her and her alone, for she is alone; all she brings from the block is herself; she is a slave; she cannot bring wealth, power, or family connections; she comes naked and sold; it is she alone he buys. ~ Slave Girl Ultimately, it becomes about love and the conditions for love. If we didn't desire the girl we own and quite definitely care about her, why would we be wasting our time with her? I think Norman is describing a form of natural love as opposed to romantic love. We rode on for a while more. Then I asked, "By the way, as a matter of fact, what did you pay for her?" Kamchak's face was black with rage. He looked at Harold, who smiled innocently and questioningly, and then at me, who was only honestly curious. Kamchak"s hands were like white clubs knotted on the reins of the kaiila. "Ten thousand bars of gold," he said. ~Nomads Call it what you will, Goreans are uniformly fond of their girls. At least, I've never met a Gorean who wasn't. We don't make a show of it, and perhaps on occasion we may be inclined to deny it completely, but we truly are or else we wouldn't own them. It seems to me that, to a Gorean, owning a pleasure slave for some other reason than the fact that you are genuinely fond of her, desire her, enjoy interacting with her, and want to keep her, would not make much sense. So becoming the object of a total-control fetish, or an artist's lump of clay, does not strike me as entering into a form of Gorean slavery. Kirata
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