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ORIGINAL: Malkinius

John.....

The Greco-Roman source is correct for most of the city states in the books with some license from the author to create what he wished. The other cultures of the books used clothing from those cultures to some extent or minimal to no clothing where possible including from Inuit tribal areas to Bantu African jungle settings to Japanese Shogante era clothing. It really depends on where which book was set. The author was both a student of history as well as a PhD and professor of Philosophy. Or you could just say he used both history and what he needed for the story at the time to determine what, if anything, a slave would wear. Most of the books are set in a Mediterranean climate area so clothing as appropriate.

Malkinius of Chicago

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ORIGINAL: Malkinius

Bhruic....

Actually, romance novel is more appropriate then light porn or even erotica. There is so little actual sex in the books they are mostly PG rated or PG-13 at best.

Malkinius of Chicago

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ORIGINAL: Bhruic

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ORIGINAL: Malkinius

Actually, romance novel is more appropriate then light porn or even erotica. There is so little actual sex in the books they are mostly PG rated or PG-13 at best.

While it is definitely very light porn by today's standards, even today it serves as erotic inspiration for a particular section of the alt sexuality community.

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Beasts Of Gor ~ 1 The Sleen

I did not let her speak further then, but forced the slave, as my whim had it, to endure the lengthy tumult of a bond girl's degradation, lying chained in the arms of a master who does not choose to show her mercy.
I had her as what she was, a slave.
In a quarter of an Ahn her beauty squirmed helplessly; my arms bled from her fingernails; her eyes were wild and piteous. "You may speak," I informed her. She threw back her head and screamed, jolting with spasms, "I yield me your slave! I yield me your slave!" she cried. How beautiful a woman is in such a moment! I waited until she drew tremblingly quiescent, looking at me. Then I cried out with the pleasure of owning her, and claimed her. She clutched me, kissing me. "I love you, Master," she wept. "I love you."

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Dancer of Gor ~ 34 Love

"Master well knows how to use a slave," I gasped. "Will he not be merciful with me? What does he want of me? I am only a slave! Must he drive me mad with passion?"
"Be silent," he grumbled.
I twisted helplessly in the love chains. I jerked helplessly again them, the rings cutting into my ankles, pulling against my wrists. There are many varieties of such chains. These were simple and had been earlier taken from the wagoner" s bench, part of the loot which my master had divided between himself and Mirus. Each consisted of a wrist ring and an ankle ring, joined by about ten inches of chain. My left wrist had been attached to my left ankle, my right wrist to my right ankle. I was on my back. A chain was also on my neck. It fastened me to a nearby tree, a yard or so from our blankets.
"You danced well, earlier," he said.
"Master!" I gasped. "Master!"
His tongue was incredible, so gentle, so subtle and yet so persuasive, so forceful, so irresistible.
"You are a hot slave," he commented.
"Hot! I was flaming, and helpless!
He drew back a bit, amused.
Quickly I lifted myself piteously, suppliantly to him.
"Is this how the woman of Earth behave?" he asked.
"I am no longer of Earth," I said. "I am of Gor, and a slave! Be merciful, I beg it, to a helplessly aroused slave!"
He chuckled, the beast, at my discomfiture, and helplessness, and need! "Please, please!" I begged.
"You are far from Earth now, and your library, slave," he said.
"Yes, Master! Yes, Master!" I said. "Please, please, Master!" I lifted myself to him in mute petition.
How he relished the power he held over me!
"Oh, yes!" I cried, as his tongue, again touched me. It had been a tiny, subtle touch, and yet, as he doubtless knew, from my distraught condition, it had brought me to the point where my response was totally within his power and I must beg.
"Please, Master," I whimpered.
"Do you beg?" he asked.
"Yes, Master!" I said.
"Who begs?" he asked.
"Tuka, the slave of Teibar of Ar, begs!" I moaned.
Again his tongue touched me and I threw back my head and screamed with joy, jerking against the chains. "Oh!" I cried. "Oh!" I shuddered, and thrashed and gasped. Then I lay quiet in his chains, looking up at him in wonder, in gratitude. I was his. My entire body was rich in the memory of what he had done to me, in one sense what he had made me beg for, in another sense what he had forced me to endure.
"I am yours," I said.
"That is known to me," he said. He then touched me again, this time gently, with his hand.
Again I looked up at him, helplessly.
"You are mine to caress," he said.
"Yes, my master," I whispered. Then he made me cry out, softly, and then turned me to my belly on the blankets, and lifted me to him. Then he permitted me to lie on my side, and I tried to kiss at his body.

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ORIGINAL: Bhruic

You may not consider it pornography, but many in the 60's and 70's did, and criticized it as such.

My original comment spoke to the original intent of the work, not what present day denizens of a sexuality web site might think of it, vis a vis its pornographic nature.

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ORIGINAL: Bhruic

Also... the books were intended as light pornography... so that probably had more to do with the choice of clothing for female slaves than any academic consideration.

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By definition, it's not pornography, because it's not explicit enough to qualify in that vein.

As such, your comment that it was intended as pornography is utter nonsense.

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ORIGINAL: BOXMOOR74

Dear sir or madam,
I read from my personal library some of the originating books of Gor.

I now ask where does the female slaves dress protocol originate from as I have not found it mentioned in the slave based societies of the last 7,000 years like the Egyptian,the Chinese,The Grecian,The Roman,The Southern Slave Society prior to the Civil war or is the female slave dress protocol just from the authors imagination?

John Robert Size

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The costume is created for access, pure and simple. John wrote these to satisfy his own personal love of the idea of having slaves.

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ORIGINAL: Bhruic

You may not consider it pornography, but many in the 60's and 70's did, and criticized it as such.

My original comment spoke to the original intent of the work, not what present day denizens of a sexuality web site might think of it, vis a vis its pornographic nature.

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ORIGINAL: robertsez

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The costume is created for access, pure and simple. John wrote these to satisfy his own personal love of the idea of having slaves.

Possibly. In a former life, I had a co-coworker who told me that he preferred that women wore dresses for "accessibility." Since that time, I often thought about the "accessibility factor" when I noticed a woman wearing a dress out in the Vanilla world.

Another reason for slaves to wear a separate and distinct costume is for the purpose of identification. A collar, especially a Gorean one (such as those from Ring of Steel) certainly leaves no question as to her station in life.

As far as wearing a Gorean collar 24/7 in a modern setting, I think it would raise too many eyebrows in the Vanilla population. In Gor or ancient Rome, slaves were commonplace; in modern America, they are not. Therefore, I would think the close-fitting, 3/8-inch Gorean collar would make it more difficult to function in Society.

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ORIGINAL: robertsez

Therefore, I would think the close-fitting, 3/8-inch Gorean collar would make it more difficult to function in Society.

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I now ask where does the female slaves dress protocol originate from

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As far as wearing a Gorean collar 24/7 in a modern setting, I think it would raise too many eyebrows in the Vanilla population.