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Leonidas -> RE: Free Companions (6/23/2009 8:56:53 AM)
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Same reason that "one mate" paradigm evolved across many different human cultures throughout history. It has to do with assured (to the extent possible) paternity. A woman is the only one who can know for sure whose baby she carries. Men are understandably, instinctively anxious about that, and take whatever measures they can to ensure that the children they presume to be theirs really are. The "one mate" paradigm may have simply come to predominate as a bow to the fact that a man can really only effectively keep track of one woman, and separate her from the predations of other men, at a time.
Go back far enough, and it might also have to do with succession, and power within the clan. A man with many wives ends up with many sons and probably more influence than other men would like him to have.
Slaves are different. At least in our culture. They're kept to serve and be pleasing, sexually and otherwise. They are, presumably, slutty by nature, and so not suitable to be wives (see above), but that's alright, we aren't keeping them to bear us sons, and if through some mishap with the slave wine they happen to bear some other man's son, no harm, no foul.
If you can step back and think about these things dispassionately, which I know is hard for humans to do, there is an evolutionary reason for all of the behaviors, and desires, that you see in the Gor books. There is an evolutionary purpose for both free women who are sexually cautious and reserved, and slutty slave girls who are given to sexual abandon, just as there is for a man's desire to both assure paternity with A woman on the one hand, but also fuck as many women as he can get his hands on on the other hand.
The evolutionary forces that shaped these passions within us aren't operating on us anymore, for the most part, but the passions remain. Trying to deny them or explain them away only diminishes us, and makes us something less than we were. The better course of action is for us craft our system of ethics to embrace and uphold what we are, rather than aspiring to be what we are not.
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