Mood:  chatty

Well, finished the book, "Slave Girl of Gor" and while it *still* isn't sterling prose, there are some things it made me think about. 

The story itself is pretty cool.  Basically a romance with a bit of a spy touch going on.   The author for some reason takes great delight in repeating himself.  You'll basically get the same thing several times, in fact a couple of times milovane thought it was a typo or something.  Some of the scenes are pretty vivid, like the battle scene on the Thassa.  That was pretty exciting.

But on to what it made me think about:

 1.  Gorean slaves are for the pleasure of MEN.  Yes, there were Freewomen that owned slaves, but they were NOT pleasure slaves, they were usually house slaves, that sort of thing.  The basic function of a Gorean slave was for the pleasure of MEN.  

 This isn't rocket science, really.  But sometimes, particularly on IRC Gor I'd have to agree with some Masters who say that the women have taken over Gor.  I was in a channel the other day where the Free Women were so, for lack of a better word, bitchy about the serves the girls were doing.  They made the girls do all sorts of kitchen duties, like washing their hands, washing the dishes, all of that.  Now, most men if you ask them to describe the dishes in their own cupboard, they couldn't tell you.  They don't care.  Kitchen slaves wash and clean the dishes.  The girls who are serving are pleasure slaves, so, as a dear Master used to say, the dishes are clean and perfect, show us the slave.  Even when serving a Free Woman the slave is aware of the Masters in the room and it is they whom she seeks to pleasure with the visuals she writes.  

2.  White silks are simply virgins and they weren't particularly valued

Think that milovane commented on this before.  All you princess whitesilks out there, get over it!  You may be adorably princessy and wear white, but it certainly isn't what would happen on Gor.  Virgins didn't last more than a half an hour after they were sold, end of whitesilks.  

3. It IS about sexuality. 

It is about the healthy expression of human sexuality.  A woman responding to a man.  A man being able to express and fulfill his carnal desires with abandon, and a woman, the choice taken from her, to be able to respond, unashamedly, and with equal abandon.  A slave girl's yeilding, in the books, is about giving over that total response.  So again you white silks, get over it!

4.  A Master wants *all* of the girl.  He owns everything about her.

This is probably the hardest one, for milovane.  To give over all my moods, my thoughts, everything.  As Masters who have dealt with milovane will tell you,  this girl can sometimes just "shut down".  It's a self defense mechanism.  But a slave can have no defenses with her owner, her Master.  She is his, all his.  How often have you held back?  How often have you kept your thoughts?  How can your Master deal with things if he doesn't have all the information?  

 5.  Gor is brutal.  It is not dainty or forgiving.

Over and over again milovane hears Masters and FreeWomen and even slaves on IRC Gor say things like Gor is not about brutality.  Heck yah it is brutal.  The heroine in this book was chained, beaten, in fights, threatened with death constantly, raped, chased, branded, head shaved, you name it.  If a slave is displeasing, or simply if it pleases her owner she can be beaten, sold, put to death, fed to the sleen, what ever!  All of you trying to make a kinder gentler Gor please move on, it just isn't the way it is.  There are kinder and gentler places, go there!

 So, there are some things to think about.  Now, some people have said they read this blog, would love to get more feedback.  What do you think?

milovane