RedDragonFreehol
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Tal Agaib,
For starters, most Goreans do not consider themselves a subset of BDSM, or more to the point, the community known by that moniker. Many of us do have contact with the BDSM community in our area, but we do not share a like mind on most things. While technically, the Gorean lifestyle, at least when practiced with slaves in a household, is a subset of the Master/slave paradigm, it differs from the practice of M/s in the BDSM community in several very significant ways.
First, our focus is on the philosophy presented in the Gor novels by John Norman. We are Gorean, and live by the philosphy, whether or not we have slaves. Many Goreans are completely Gorean, and alone, or they live their lives with a Free Companion and no slaves.
Second, the BDSM community, as it has evolved over the past decade, has become increasingly focused on SM scene play, and the sexuality of sado-masochism. Goreans are not focused in that arena, and can never be focused there. Our focus is on understanding that there is nature, and that there is an order to that nature, and that part of that natural order is the dominance of men over the submission of women. We need not abjectively enslave a woman to achieve that order of nature, and many of us live very "vanilla" lives aside from the established, and often very strict, gender based hierarchy in our houses.
Third, when we do engage in activities that appear to be superficially based in BDSM, they are usually differently focused. I have three slaves. They are disciplined, and punished, but not because they get some kinky thrill from it. It is behavior modification from behaviors that are unacceptable to me, and sometimes dangerous to them, into a behavioral form that is both acceptable to me, and not dangerous to them. It has everything to do with understanding the application of real discipline to real behavior in real time in order to modify behavior along lines in keeping with the philosophy, and in improving women so that they can experience the fullness of their emotionality and sexuality as females instead of the pseudo males that are spawned by feminism and humanist thought in the external society.
Goreans try very hard to be philosophically correct, and true to the underlying tenets of the philosophy. We do not live the fantasy of the books. The fantasy is there only to make the books readable. Most of the characters, places, even the flora and fauna in the books are iconic representations of the external world, there to make points and arguements in favor of the natural world, and the natural order as Norman saw it.
Be well,
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Omega
Master of Red Dragon Freehold
Chairman of the High Council
Colorado Gorean Society
www.coloradogoreans.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coloradogoreans
www.fraternalorderofgoreans.com
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