Posted by Ruilan on April 17, 19100 at 10:35:03:
Tal and greetings...
Not wanting to become involved in what is an internal decision of a specific site I present some
information, comments and quotes..Make of them what you will...*s* As to Port Kar and it's
policy on the contract of a FW to become slave it is not recognized and it's controversial
nature is a war of semantics and opinions. To have a FW "play" at being slave should
insult the sensibilities of any Gorean. I wish all well.
"`In the eyes of Gorean law you are an animal. You have no name in your own right. You may be collared
and leashed. You may be bought and sold, whipped, treated as the master pleases, disposed of as he sees fit.
You have no rights whatsoever. Legally you have no more status than a tarsk or vulo. Legally, literally, you
are an animal.'"
--pg 316, Explorers of Gor
A free woman may do a form of limited contracting where she legally becomes a
slave for a specific time period, commonly ranging from one night to one year. She
cannot end this contract earlier than the specified time period. Once the contract
takes effect, she becomes a slave with no legal powers at all. This curious
contractual arrangement is not described in great detail. It raises many legal
dilemmas that can only be speculated about. The books do not state that the
contract covers any contigencies or limits the slavery in any way. The woman
becomes an actual slave. That would seem to mean she could be freely killed. Or
does it? What would happen is she was sold? Does the contract prevent that?
Would the time period still apply if she was sold? What would happen if she was
stolen? This contract is a subject of much debate and it's vagueness has led to
many disagreements.
(Xerns Comment)
"Once a slave, always a slave, at least in my book."
(Ruilans Comment)
"I tend to agree"
Manumission is the restoration of a legal slave to a position of legal freedom. Since
their are no real laws stated anywhere about it in the books it is a moot point
legally. It really serves little or no purpose, other than to demonstrate that upon
on Gor, slaves are occasionally freed by their owners.
It would be my guess that what may be at the root of the controversy on this
subject is the issue of voluntary slaves being freed to again become "free" women.
Most Gorean mens instant response to the ability to abadon ones stated nature
and place in Gorean society thus becoming unslaved grates at a Free Gorean..It is
a common Gorean custom for example for free men to stand when a free woman
enters a room as a polite way of showing respect for them and when it suddenly
appears that they must honor that same now free woman who had just recently
been on her belly serving the pleasures of any free man that cared to use her and
at her own request and her own volition, then many Gorean men take it as a direct
insult to the status of free Goreans. An insult to those who have chosen not to
bow to others.. and would fight vehemently to prevent it happening.
This then could explain the heated emotions which are expressed whenever it is
suggested that free Goreans must acknowledge, as free, one who formerly embraced
slavery of his or her own free will. Freedom is precious to Goreans. They rarely suffer it to be cast
off and redonned with the simple addition of robes and a veil and in my opinion for
the very reasons I have stated.
Anyway that is how I see it. As long as free Goreans treasure the state of
freedom, and their naturally free natures, it seems they will not see it cheapened
through what they perceive to be misuse and explortation.
I wish you well...Ruilan
"`The self-enslavement decision is an interesting one,' I said, `for it is a decision which is freely made,
being made by a free individual, but, once made, it is irrevocable, for the individual is then no longer free,
but only a property.'"
--p.416, Mercenaries of Gor
"`You may freely enter into the state of bondage,' I told her, `but you may not freely leave it. This thing is,
once it is done to you, is, on your part, irreversible. It is not then within your power to break, alter or
amend it in any way. You will then, you see, no longer be a free person, but only a slave.'"
--p.298, Blood Brothers of Gor
So, the existence of individuals who willingly seek their own enslavement is not foreign to Gor. But what
does Norman say about such individuals?
"Some girls, whose hunger for bondage is just under the surface, if not manifest, are probably prepared
to be superb slaves almost instantly, with no pain, or perhaps no more than a modicum of pain, perhaps
only enough to assure them of the reality of their condition, that they are truly slaves, and subject to the
strict discipline of an uncompromising master. Such women, eager to serve, rejoicing in the achievement at
long last of this profound fulfillment, hitherto only dreamed of, ask little more than what to do and how to
do it."
--p.333-334, Mercenaries of Gor
"The most fundamental property prized by Goreans in women, I suppose, though little is said about it, is
her need for love, and her capacity for love. How much does she need love? And how deep and loving is
she? That is the kind of woman a man wants, ultimately, one who is helplessly and totally love's captive, in
his collar."
--p.322, Mercenaries of Gor
"`The love slave is still slave, you see,' I said, `perhaps moreso than any other... she is held in her
bondage by the strongest of all bonds... that of love.'"
--p.318, Mercenaries of Gor
"`I exist for you,' she said, `and it is what I want, to please and serve you.' She was much in love. She
wanted to give all of herself to Marcus, irreservedly, to hold nothing back, to live for him, and, if necessary,
to die for him. It is the way of the female in love, for whom no service is too small, no sacrifice too great,
offering herself selflessly as an oblation to the master."
--p.27, Magicians of Gor
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