IronBear
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Joined: 6/19/2005 From: Beenleigh, Qld, Australia Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: MaggieLynn I must admit that my knowledge of the Goren lifestyle is limited to the books themselves (which I read years ago) and messing around in online Gorean roll playing chat rooms when I first went online about 10 years ago... But I've got a question, isn't being "freed" and becoming a FC like being a "switch"? You go from being a sub/slave to being a Top/Domme???? Actuall no it's no where it. Being released and made a Free Woman is simply that she is now a Free Woman of Gor with all the rights pertaining to any other Free person. The only submissiveness is that she knows her place with the Free men who can over ride her if they so choose. It is said in the books that a woman is only Free as long as men wish it. A Free Companionship means that she enters a formal relationship with a free man in a similar manner as a marriage or even if you stretch it a handfasting. there is usually a set period and at the end the contract may be renewed. I'm a tad hazy on the finer points as my lady and I entered into a life long free Companionship just as we did our marriage and earlier our handfasting. The interesting issue is that now an ex kajira has to learn how to be a Free Woman which I immagine will be quite a turn around in mind set.
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