Camerius
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Nopes, Isthar is from Belgium and I'm from Denmark. She's a woman and I'm a man. Too I have talked with her on and off for years now. If you're in doubt if we're the same, ask some of the men and women here that have met her in person (which I haven't), and let them tell you if we're the same. I highly doubt that she's a 6' 6" Tall, heavily tattoo'ed 43 year old Danish Warehouseworker & forkliftdriver. ;O) That passage that you so seemingly dismiss, even as I read it, disregards, are what explains Gorean morality as counter to most Earth moralities. Note that it says Gorean morality, NOT master or anothing other morality, in those two pages. It gives you the clues at to why it is Gorean (not just by name but it helps defining it to BE Gorean), what it encurages *honor, courage, hardness and strength* versus most of the Earthen ones, and what the basics are when it comes to understanding of the differences between Earthen moralities and Gorean morality. The interesting pa here is that within those 2 pages, not only do John Norman outline the basics of Gorean morality, it's also makes it clear that you're wrong in your assumption of BDSM'ers having a Gorean morality. Which they don't have. Why? Because they're NOT GOREAN! While they very well might have, possess and live a master morality, they do not have a Gorean one, simply because they're...yes...not...correctly...Gorean. So, if they're NOT Gorean, how can they then live a Gorean morality? See the line of logic here? And BDSM masters don't use *sexual gratification*? Dude, now I have to ask you if YOU are serious? A very large portion of BDSM is based on sexual play, and on giving and recieving pain within that framework. All of that is to get *off*. It is for and mainly about pure sexual gratification. How do I know this? Well, truth be told before I started out down this road, I was involved within the BDSM scene over here in Denmark. Much of my experinece in the fields of BDSM and kink is from that period of time, as well as having read quite a few books on the subject. My reasoning for being there was that I thought that I was part of that scene (which is how many BDSM'ere percieve their community as), which I found out later that I weren't. I was different in many way. I didn't play that I own a slave, I didn't enjoy enforcing or inflicting pain on someone else, be that sexual play or for sexual gratification. If you want, I was a wolf, not mean't to be a dog. I have no problems with someone having or enjoying BDSM, pain play or the likes, to each their own. It's just not something I find pleasure or enjoyment from or in, and as suh I don't engage in it. The books you list don't mean much because they're not Gorean morality. Yes, they're fragments of it, that John Norman used to build or firm it around, but, and here's the thing, they're not exclusively Gorean. Remember that I asked you to provide books, sources or text that were about Gorean philosophy in its fullness and whole and not just fragements? So far you haven't. Your arguments are crumbeling before the logic proof from Swordsmen of Gor, which I types out to you as proof in that you statement of the heading of this very thread AND your OP AND your assumptions were...wrong. That this is provided by a book quote, that it explains it in a way that can't be misunderstood and most of all, that it's from John Norman himself syaing this. Which means that we now have a scale to weighten the arguments in and with, and I can see which end of the scale is the one with the most weight. And dude, it's surely not yours. ;O) I'm not a BDSM master.....*laughs*....I'm a Gorean man. Besides, where are those sources for backing up your claim that John Norman wans't the inventor of Gorean philosophy? Camerius (quoted material removed - M21)
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"To Gorean morality many Earth moralities might ask, "Why so hard?" To these Earth moralities, the Gorean ethos might ask, "Why so soft?" Marauders of Gor, pg.8
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