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: FREE WOMAN OR SLAVE? By Marcus of Ar : Not long ago, a free woman I know made the following statement: : "Norman stated that all women were submissives, yet all were not slaves; no matter how many quotes I will : see thrown about the proof of the matter is, if it was true that all women were slaves... Norman would simply : have made them all slaves on Gor." : Actually, Norman did not state that. Not precisely. : What he actually stated was that any females can be compelled to accept a submissive role when : subjected to masterful behavior when it is enacted by a male who is strong enough, and capable enough, to : control her. And that under the correct circumstances, any female can experience a certain sense of surrender, : and inherent "rightness," in the arms of a strong male. Norman suggests that this is a direct result of : biological evolution. : The reason why Gor is not populated only by male Masters and female slaves is quite obvious: because : not all females are suited to be legally enslaved, and because a society cannot function very well if the : mothers and sisters of all the men are denied the dignity and freedom which is necessary for those females to : raise the next generation of offspring. The female may be a member of what Goreans call "the slave sex" (a : better definition might be "the sex which can be subjugated by the male") but legal slavery on a totally : comprehensive scale would eventually destroy the underpinnings of Gorean society. The society must : continue to function, and for that to happen, a separation between the idealized mother as nurturer, and the : acceptance of unchecked feminine sexuality by the slave, must be strictly enforced. : So, apparently the Goreans feel that only one out of every forty or so Gorean females are suited for slavery. : The rest are allowed to maintain privileges of rank and social status, until they indicate by their actions that : they are suited to be slaves. The slave receives, in exchange for her submission, a depth of primal emotional : sexuality undreamed of by the free female... but to do this, she must abandon her dignity, or have it stripped : from her. : The ratio of one slave for every forty free women is a Gorean ratio. On Earth, I suspect that ratio might : even be inversely proportional... perhaps here there are forty females who are not sufficiently proud and : stubborn to be anything but natural slaves at the feet of a strong and masterful man, for every one female : who is bold, gently supportive and dignified enough to earn the respect and support of a Gorean Man as a : free companion. : It is just as difficult for a sexually-starved female to resist the magnetic sexual attraction of being controlled : by a strong Gorean Man, as it is for a sexually-starved male to resist the temptation to put a natural Gorean : kajira at his feet. : Both individuals, the masterful Man and the ignited slave, are rare in our society, and this very rarity : produces some distinct side-effects. One of those side-effects is the difficulty for an Earth female to remain as : aloof and noble as Gorean freedom would require, when the sexual profundity of acceptance of submission : beckons to her. : Why is it so hard for the Earth-based Gorean man to accept that there is such a thing as a free woman? : Well, most of the women of Earth have been reduced by the limitations and restrictions of their societal : training to a state which seems naturally conducive to submission, at the hands of a strong male. As : mentioned above, they are starved for strong Men. Therefore, the female who is able to resist and : complement such a male (and I mean REALLY do it, not simply spout a bunch of buzz-words and hide behind : some moralistic rhetoric about guaranteed equality) is quite rare in our present society. So are strong and : self-assured males, for that matter. : It is perhaps difficult for the Earth male to believe in the existence of a naturally free woman when so few : exist, and so many have never encountered one. : When Earth males like myself embrace Gorean philosophy, therefore becoming, in a sense, Gorean, they : tend to see most of the females of Earth the same way that the Gorean Men in the books do. As natural : slaves. : Until one has met and encountered a true "Gorean-quality" free woman, it is difficult to envision such an : individual. : I have the distinct privilege of knowing a few such women. I have seen strong "Gorean" Men react : instinctively to them, automatically treating them deferentially and rendering them respect, this feeling of : natural adoration and protectiveness springing from a gut level. : One does not automatically start out as either slave, or free, or Gorean Man or Gorean Woman, in this : philosophy. One starts out as an Earthling with natural tendencies towards one or the other. It is just as : necessary for the Gorean free woman to prove herself worthy of the respect of Gorean Men as it is for the : slave to prove herself worthy of his ownership and attention, and for the Gorean Man to prove himself the : natural master and protector of them both. : I add that, too often, the Gorean philosophy is superficially adopted by misguided Earth males who use it : as a ready explanation for some degree of innate misogyny, that misogyny springing from an unreasonable : distrust and hatred of all that is female. The truly enlightened Gorean Man has no need to hate or fear any : female, simply because he accepts and understands the relational integration through which male and female : interact. Confident in his own masculinity he does what pleases him, and forms opinions of the females in his : presence based upon who they are and their natural relationship to him, rather than on some deep-seated fear : that they will reject him, and must therefore be rejected first. Thus, such misogyny is not a part of the male : Gorean personality. : Except, possibly, in the city of Tharna. And there are distinct historical reasons for that. : )

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