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The Gorean Lifestyle: A Woman's Right is Slave

Why Goreans Believe Women Only Exist to Please Men

By Ann Olson, published Jan 03, 2008

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What is your name and identity? If you're a woman practicing a Gorean lifestyle, you don't have one. You identity is kajira, a slave, and you serve a master, who orders you to do whatever he pleases. You have no rights and never address yourself as "I" or "me" - instead, you address yourself as "master's slave". Refusal to do this results in punishment, usually a whipping. Would it surprise you that many women in America today practice this lifestyle willingly? This is a sobering look into the sexualized lifestyle of Gor: Gor's bookish beginnings, why Goreans think slavery is necessary, living as a Gorean slave, and the controversy surrounding it, including stories of abuse and death.

How Gor Started
In 1967 John Norman (real name John Frederick Lange Jr.) released a book called Tarnsman of Gor, a book detailing life on Gor and its inhabitants. This turned into a series with 26 books in print today, called Chronicles of Gor. His books are carefully detailed that explain everything from Gorean food to Gorean rituals, and focus on adventures in Gor and the natural role of genders. Gorean philosophy believes that men have a natural drive to dominate women; women have a strong desire to submit to men and give up their rights. Women are either free or enslaved, but free women can be enslaved at any time.

Philosophy of Gorean Slavery
Here is Gorean philosophy concerning slavery of women:

- As stated before, Goreans believe that women have a natural desire to be slaves. Every woman has this desire.
- Also, they believe that women have a huge desire to please men. They strive for perfection. They want to be submissive. Women want to be controlled by men. A man's word is final.
- Gor strictly believes in the 'natural order'. There aren't any exceptions to this rule. Men always dominate, women always submit.
- All women 'beg the collar' (desire a master). Women slaves are collared once owned and beg to be owned, according to Gorean philosophy. Here is an excerpt from Marauders of Gor explaining this view:

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SH_talise

Not all women in Gor are submissive,You left out The Free Women of Gor which they do exist as my Mistress is one.I am privilleged to have a Master and a Mistress.I love Gor and read the books as some of your information is way off target. SH_talise Sir Hydrom and Mistress Fires lovely water

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Posted on 09/19/2008 at 3:09:54 PM

kitty

hmmm. Well, I personally find the gor novels poorly written, and misogynistic. I think it's norman's own personal wankfest. Being someone who myself is A. Female B. Submissive C. Owned BUT most definitely NOT Gorean, I feel that I can make this assessment without having leveled at me: "Whaaa you don't understand submissive females." If people want to play act Gor, that's just fine, but...the books themselves are misogynistic travesties and I'm not the only person in a complete power exchange relationship that thinks so. The only book I find more violent and stupidly offensive is the bible.

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Posted on 09/11/2008 at 12:09:59 PM

homer

If you switch the word Gorean and Klingon, I do not think you would be too for off the mark

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Posted on 08/05/2008 at 3:08:08 AM

rayne

Now, most women in a city are free, they have honor and respect as they are members of families who have earned honor for performing necessary caste work and building a good reputation. The free women are the pride of the city, they are highly valued, because they are the mothers, they do the cooking, laundry, house work, raise the children, etc. All vital to the city and honored work. Because they are seen as so valuable, they are to wear veils and birkas like Islamic women, the highest caste women are kept hidden away behind walled gardens attended to by female slaves only. No man who lives in a city would dare enslave a free woman of his own city. The other cities women however are taken freely, because other cities are seen as the enemy, the people treated almost like the castless. Now slaves are criminals, those stripped of caste/honor, and captives from other cities. (Also women who submit to men because slaves can be shameless and sexually expressive as free women can not.

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Posted on 08/05/2008 at 3:08:44 AM

rayne

you seem to miss the point that Kajira are slaves, they have a choice in the matter, submit in a pleasing way or impaled on a pike and your corpse set out as an example to the masters other kajira. You must realize that life on the planet Gor is one of necessity and hardship. There is no supermarket for example, no large scale farming, or modern technology. Every city is its own nation, the members of each city are at constant war with anyone outside that city-state. There is such scarcity that people in the city must work together to survive like a tight family each with specialized castes work that contributes to the city, and people only have the right, liberties and respect that they earn in the eyes of the community, this in ones honor. anyone who has a bad reputation or no honor, is not paid, not allowed to buy or sell good, is distrusted, spit upon, beaten, raped or killed on sight. Treated like stray rabid dogs, better killed that allowed to spread diseases and waste food

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Posted on 08/05/2008 at 3:08:27 AM

Ann Olson

GUYS -- just to clarify. The information I listed here is information about how Gor works in the BOOKS, not in actual life. I know Gor in actual life is not the same.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 7:07:12 PM

Scott Dunn

I do hope that perhaps you will take the time in the future to actually do research before writing things like this. It is much easier to sound like you know what you're talking about when people who don't know what it is, are your audience. However when you say things without credibility, (one book quote doesn't count here) when it takes actual experience to give the truth, your point gets lost. Natural Order isn't everyones cup of tea, nor is BDSM. That is the beauty of humanity. We can be extremely diverse and exploratory, it's when people say things that aren't true is when the party is ruined. I wish you well author, Saffleur Please read My comments in reverse order so that it makes sense.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 6:07:58 PM

Scott Dunn

The term "white silk" and "red silk" only means virgin or not respectively. There is no need to tie a ribbon to a collar. Most slaves wore whatever their owners preferred in the books. Beyond that you forget that Norman originally published the majority of Gorean novels when feiminism was just coming into itself. Beyond that, slaves were made to do many tasks and they do many tasks in real life as well. Sure, there were pelasure slaves but any slave can be trained for such. Further more you have this narrowminded view that ALL women must submit and that is not true. It is not demanded that they do so. There are Free Women and there are slaves. The ones with collars or the ones on their knees saying Master are the slaves. Free Women do not call Free Men "Master."

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 6:07:20 PM

Scott Dunn

Reading this article has amused me. I can understand your mis-haps upon what is the truth and what you think the truth is. The people (me included) who enjoy the Gorean life )I prefer calling it natural order as that is what it is), are hardly what you've represented them to be. It is incorrect to take a handful of what you've heard not experienced and turn it into some kind of clout. Gorean slaves, kajiri as that is the plural form including both male and female slaves, are indeed allowed to speak first person. It is a matter of the people that they are around that affect whether they may speak in first or third, hence the command "speak as slave" which is used only in punishment. In fact that same punishment is used in BDSM.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 6:07:57 PM

Tsu__MH__W

First and foremost, the Gor books are fiction about life on ANOTHER PLANET! There are communities online where people ROLE PLAY Gor, in chatrooms using lots of description, or on high graphics driven servers like Second Life. There are SOME people that role play Gor with each other at home, and in their bedrooms, in a completely lawful and unabusive manner. There is always someone out there that will abuse someone else, no matter what the venue. Use common sense, and avoid abusers. Everyone has something inside that drives them. Women that gravitate toward submissive behavior shouldnt be ridiculed for being what they are, but should be praised for being true to themselves. That, is true inner strength.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 4:07:11 PM

Tsu's aideen

That's not true, there are many cases where slaves refer to themselves in first person. Reread the books. It's all about a Master's personal preference. This one's first Master insisted that this one speak in first person, however, her current Master prefers third person speech.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 12:07:12 PM

Tsu's aideen

Oh, and, by the way, not all Master's beat their slaves for punishment. This one's Master usually has her do either push-ups or crunches. He never does anything destructive to this one. He makes the punishments something that this one hates, but something that is also beneficial to this one. He made this one do 50 crunches once while He watched because she had mixed up His command, and inadvertantly disobeyed. This one's abs hurt for a while, but this one lived. And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger (and a better listener in this case). He is the best influence in this one's life to be honest. This one exercises regularly, eats right, and takes good care of herself. This one supposes her question now is how is this a bad situation?

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 2:07:08 AM

Tsu's aideen

This one can not remember a time in her life when she wasn't slavelike. This girl never would have admitted it before, but this one has always had slavelike thoughts and tendencies. It was quite difficult for this one since this one feared what others would think of her. The world frowns on submissive women nowadays. Feminists hate us. Why, this one is not sure. Perhaps it is because deep down they know they are the same, and fear that someone might see that in them. This one couldn't say. However, this one can say that this one has never been happier than since she found Gor. This article was written by someone that has no real understanding of what she is talking about. Oh, some of those facts are true, but you don't really know what you are talking about. This one's Master loves her, and this one loves Him. He has never abused this one in any way, and this one is absolutely content being His. It is wonderful to be loved like this. Something most women could never understand.

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Posted on 07/28/2008 at 2:07:25 AM

this slave has no name

this slave would like to set a few straight, she just learned that she would like to live the life of a slave, as a woman she tended to gravitate towards men who would controle her but when there is no communication then it can lead to abuse. Gorean lifestyl can be healthy, if it is a mutual choice. For this slave it is a few things that make this a good fit, she loves to please and is pleased with satiating all of her Masters wimms, plus this slave loves to be grabbed by the hair and taken...this slave understands why some may be threatened by these feelings but she would have more self esteem problems if she could not openly embrace her true passion. Does this slaves heart flutter when she is controlled? Yes, just as yours does when your mate does for you the things you desire. For this slave it is so much more than sexual gratification but a test of who she is and how far she can let herself go. Is she STRONG enough to give up the one thing we all struggle to maintain, controll!

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Posted on 07/10/2008 at 9:07:44 PM

this slave has no name

this slave would point out that a true Gorean slave would never refer to herself in first person, this slave is so new this is her first reach out but one of the first Gorean rules this slave learned is to always refer to ones self in third person

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