amelliagrace
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ORIGINAL: xBullx Tal and Greetings Gorean, This is a post focused on the Goreans here, you may comment if you aren't but you will be judged accordingly. Not being Gorean, I've not voted. I'm not a nut about always going on about slavery, but I'm curious about you folk. As am I. What I've read of this thread has been interesting and thought provoking. Do you believe in unconsensual slavery? Why? Answered below. My non-Gorean, female, point of view: I'd have to say, "depends". As has been pointed out here by others, and far better than I could done, institutionalized slavery, legalized slavery provides an excellent framework for that which is evil and ugly to flourish. If human man in general attained more of their, as Mistress Maahsatti has put it, "birthright", that wouldn't be so much the case. I've seen enough in life, however, to be about as cynical as Cherylmazana on this subject. There is still a place for non-consensual salvery, imo. That place is when it comes into being through the natural process of "water seeking its own level." When a woman (using that gender only due to the Gorean context of the original question) and Man meet, and what he is calls to her on a level none has before, and she finds herself naturally slipping into a place of "slavery" in relation to him, it can be a beautiful thing. The internal process and dynamics may take a couple hours, or more slowly over many months. When the process is natural,and the "fit' good, labels and formality aren't necessary at all. When the process is allowed to progress naturally, the chances of a good woman falling prey to a total SOB are slimmer (again, JMO) than in the average mainstream marriage. An accepting and understand social structure could definitely assist in the developement of healthy M/s relationships. A society where "slavery" is intolerable in name, but practiced in various unhealty forms in the corners and shadows of society, under any name but 'slavery", contributes on a daily basis to women falling prey to unhealty slavery and servitude at the hands of total SOB's. Summary: This isn't Gor, it is Earth, and we are stuck with sharing the planet with all these other human beings. Non-consensual slavery, legalized and societally sanctioned is a poor idea at best, JMNSHO. If enacted, it could easily result in mankind taking a quantum leap backward . Healthy non-consensual slavery can, and in fact does exist. If society woke up to the beauties of variation in human relationships, demanding more health than uniformity, the human race would take a quantum leap forward. Not all women are suited to slavery of any type. Some may only be suited to it with one man in their entire lifetime. Not all men, even good ones, make great masters. Slavery is a thing of tremendous beauty or supreme ugliness, as the result of one thing, and one thing only - whether or not it was brought about by the "natural order' between two decent human beings of character, honor, and integrity. -grace
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