Aswad
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Hey, Elisabella. Trust a slave to have a different perspective on freedom... Anyway, female competition is more frequently based on exclusion than on personal excellence, and this extends to sex, where women have set the template for companies like DeBeers for most of recorded history: brand everything else as an inferior product, and set up a seller controlled market with a solid monopoly. A prostitutes is a threat because they sell at market value, and are both apt to have some skill and some of the benefits of a slave ("every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates," n'est-ce pas?). Sluts are a bigger thread, as they're giving away the goods for free, and are frequently more skilled at what they do. On Gor, slavery neutralizes the threat, because a suitable FC is one that plays by the rules of this de facto guild, and having free children pretty much means having them with a "guild approved" woman. It's almost like using union labor. And, of course, if you break the rules, you find yourself in a collar. Since the FC can have more financial power, and has the power to leave, this is a huge win for anyone that is willing to live within those strictures. If Norman were less concerned with his satire, he might have used the Panthers to describe a different solution; the road not taken, if you will. In any case, Earth history shows the same thing arising out of the Abrahamic tradition, together with misogyny, humane ethics and a bunch of other things that are 'the price to pay' for a level playing field. As such, Gor is a woman's world, an underappreciated fact. Of course, it's also a world where you can eat your cake and have some, too: the FC can turn into a slut behind closed doors, so the repressive attitudes of the humane ethic baggage only concerns public behavior, and those that have fully internalized it can be collared, broken of the internalized barriers, and then uncollared again. We see the same spectacle on the other side of the board here, except that the barriers are suspended, rather than broken. Virtually every "forced" cock sucking man on the other side is looking for a woman to use as a permission slip to maintain his humane ethic type masculinity in the presence of a socially unacceptable desire: a proxy to absolve him of accountability. I'll let the women speculate on the corresponding examples for women on the other side; there's more than a few. To quote a female prime minister from Norway: the only obstacle to women's liberation is women. In the western world, at least, her observation seems accurate. Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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