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ORIGINAL: xBullx <snip> You see the brand signified that a girl was found to be, at heart, a kajira. Concurrently a great many of you folk see the terms kajira and slave to be interchangeable and synonymous; and while it may have alluded to this point in the books, this was mainly because of legal definition and to simplify understanding, but I assure you that you couldn’t be further from the truth. The kajira is bound at the heart and controlled by mastery, she would never be afforded, nor would she assume herself superior to anyone above her station. A slave is a legal affliction and is seldom embraced by a person confined as such. The kajira, as we know them, embrace their condition and in fact, often enough, eagerly seek such a circumstance. Sorry Bull, but bull...well...you know the rest of the word. <grins> The brand only marked someone as a slave. It says nothing in or out of the books about how much a slave or how natural a slave she is. It only says that at one point, if not currently, she was enslaved. On Gor, where there is legal slavery, someone can be enslaved, male or female, and they not want to be a slave, not be a good slave and except for legally, not be enslaved. With consensual slavery here on Earth that might be true but sorry, it is not true of all the slaves I have known. Please don't confuse the point that in the books, some females who were brought to Gor to be slaves were effectively natural slaves and were surrendered themselves easily and deeply when someone who knew what they were doing due to training and experience, mastered them. There were many other slaves on Gor who really didn't want to be slaves and yes, I do mean female slaves. Most of those were not primary or point-of-view characters but they were there. Be well..... Malkinius You are indeed correct about the context slavery within the pages of Gor. And thanks for illustrating my point, I knew I could count on someone to step up. Slavery was indeed harsh cruel and often times devious in print. And yes any wench walking could end up branded, no doubt about that, and in fact she would be called slave or even, kajira. But while you struggle to preserve you delusional fantasies of consensual slavery (this is actually becoming a laughable term) more and more people around stand there with a raised eyebrow, at least where the rubber meets the road, you know in reality of our day to day lives. If this Gorean experiment is to advance, hell if it's going to survive beyond the fantasy world you are presently living in, we must be men first and credible men at that. Let me ask you this, if tomorrow you had to stand in the public forum and people knew about your social stance, the terms you use and the source of your idealism, how well would you do debating with non- Goreans and non-Kinksters ( I assure you that our real world is much more so populated with those that would laugh you off the stage) as to the preservation of your so called freedoms. Could you attain an elected office if people knew you kept females you referred to as your slaves? And if you are unable to stand up, credibly as a respectable man how will you then defend your freedom? And be honest with yourself and all of us, do you know any so called Goreans that when examined under the scrutiny of the modern media that could survive and defend the Gorean condition or just simply, using theirt own credibility, defend the position of human freedom. Freedom to be whatever we are. Slavery on Earth, in our society, within our reality is a fantastical myth and role play. Period. All we have is mastery, or at least the possibility of such. Anything else retards the credibility of anyone that would label themselves Gorean. Men have to quit holding girls accountable to some desperate fantasy in order to garner their fancy and favor, stand up put forth the skill and effort to actually master them or be seen as a fraud and a loon. So in the end Mister Malkinius, are you in this to live your day to day life as a free Gorean man, able to live, openly, free and true to your nature, at least as a Gorean understands it, or are you simply the "slave trader" you advertise yourself to be? Choose you words from this day forward your credibility is at stake, and not simply as a Gorean, but as a free man.
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Live well, Bull I'm not an asshole; I'm simply resolute... "A Republic, If You Can Keep It." Caution: My humor is a bit skewed.
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