Leonidas
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Note: I'm cross-posting this from the Gorean section. I express a Gorean point of view here, so if that tends to offend you, just skip this post.
It's just way too thin on details to say much about, other than it's the only example of something like this that I've seen in the news with "Gorean" attached to it in a very long time.
So, lets make some (wild-assed) assumptions here:
He actually considered himself a lifestyle Gorean. It's a reasonable assertion, I guess, given how their relationship was described to the court that way.
He was trying to kill the woman because he thought it was his right as her master, and not just because she married him and then took up with some other dude, which, of course, is a leading cause of men trying to kill women in general.
Even if those two assumptions were true, would any of the Goreans here have thought of him as a Gorean, or just another of the misguided role-players who haunt the chatrooms?
Assuming the above assumptions are true, it would be obvious that to him, being Gorean is all about the slave. Would a Gorean man (as we understand a Gorean man to be) place a slave, ANY slave, over his freedom (which he looked more than willing to forfeit on her account)? Nah. So, she's a slut for anyone with a whip in their hand and the odd antiques dealer who happens by. Wow, big suprise there. A Gorean man worth his salt would certainly discipline a slave like that for her disloyalty when, and if, she came crawling back to his feet, but absent that, he'd give her about as much thought as yesterday's news.
The first clue here was his willingness to drop his own life and haul ass over to the UK for her. Edana will tell you that I take a rather suspicious and dim view of "Gorean" men who seem quick to do this. Here's a prime example of why I hold that view. Slave girls, if the most important thing that a man has going on in his life is you, he ain't Gorean, and you don't want him as a master. Use this as a cautionary tale, and refer back to it whenever you encounter such a man.
It sucks that the word "Gorean" got dragged into a story like this, but the word is about the most Gorean thing here. It does serve as a pretty good object lesson for the slave girls reading along though.
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