Ishtarr
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ORIGINAL: xxblushesxx Do you believe that a lady who identifies herself as a Kajira is merely livestock and can't be raped? (here in the real world?) Just for the record, regardless of what she believes, she's wrong. Kajirae are livestock -in the books- they can also be raped -in the books- and not just "slave rape" -which isn't actual "rape" at all. Kajirae -in the books- where raped -as in actual traumatic sex against their will- by men who readily acknowledged raping them; hell there are example of free women being raped in the books. There was an example of women being bred and raised in a sheltered environment with only other women, without having any knowledge at all of the outside world or the existence of men, to then, when they hit puberty to be sold off to the highest bidder without her knowledge, and during a feast -and her very first introduction to men- be gang raped. It was said that this was often so traumatic for the girls in question that they would have to be killed after the night was over. It's not because kajirae are livestock that they cannot be raped, and the books do acknowledge that they can be raped; it's more that because they are livestock and slaves, nobody gives a fuck if they are raped and they are expected just to deal with it. If they can't deal with it, and get PTSD, they'll be killed for being useless. As for what people here on Earth think. I've yet to meet a self-described Gorean that is a literalist in the text or examples of the books. Just like Christians nowadays don't literally follow the Bible's command to kill on behalf of their God, so to do Goreans not tend to consider non-concensual rape an acceptable thing. Consensual "slave rape" -which this topic is about- is another matter, and most every Gorean I know fully supports that idea. BTW, the above example of the woman being gang raped is NOT an example of what is meant -in the books or here on Earth- by "slave rape" regardless of the fact that she would in fact be a slave being raped. I guess this is a good example of why the term "slave rape" can be confusing, because it doesn't mean what it literally says.
< Message edited by Ishtarr -- 1/8/2012 11:22:34 AM >
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