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Monday, August 1, 2011

4 Mag Class - Gorean Legal Reference Part 2

The next fellow had lied about his taxes. He would be hung, a hook through his tongue, in a market. His properties were to be ?
confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state. It was conjectured that, when he was ?
removed from the pole, if he were still alive, he would be more careful in his accounts.
The next to appear before Bila Huruma were two members of the nobility, a man and his companion.. He complained of her that ?
she had been unwilling to please him. By one word and a stroke of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their ?
companionship. He then ordered that the man be put in the dress of a woman and beaten from the court with sticks. This was ?
done. He then ordered that the woman be stripped and a vine leash be put on her neck. She was then sentenced to a barrack of ?
askaris for a year, that she might learn how to please men.
Kisu, the rebel, in chains, was then dragged before Bila Huruma. He was thrown upon his knees. He was sentenced to the canal, ?
to be put upon the rogues’ chain, that he might now, at last, well serve his sovereign, Bila Huruma. Kisu, kept on his knees, was ?
then dragged to one side. Next to approach Bila Huruma was Mwoga, ambassador of the villages of Ukungu, representative of the ?
high chief, Aibu, who had organized the chiefs of Ukungu against Kisu, and deposed him. He presented gifts, skins and feathers, ?
and brass rings and the teeth of tharlarion, to Bila Huruma, and swore to him the fealty of the Ukungu villages. Too, to seal the ?
bonds of these political bargains, he, on behalf of Aibu, offered to Bila Huruma the very daughter of the high chief, Aibu, him self, ?
a girl named Tende, as one of his companions.
Explorers
On the other hand, there have been cases when a free woman, boldly, has donned such a garment and dared to walk in the ?
streets and upon the bridges, masquerading as a mere slave upon an errand for her master. She will not be recognized for, ?
commonly, when she goes out, she is veiled.
On the streets, now, of course, she will be taken for only another slave. She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the ?
bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines ?
her head submissively as she passes. free men; should they stop her, perhaps to question her, or inquire after directions, she ?
falls to her knees before them; then, later, aroused, excited, trembling, breathless, she returns to her home and enters her ?
compartment, perhaps there to throw herself on her couch, to bite and tear at the coverlets, sobbing with unrelieved passion.
The excursions of such women, commonly, grow more bold. Perhaps they take to walking the high bridges, under the Gorean ?
moons. Perhaps they fall to the noose of a passing tarnsman. Perhaps they attract the attention of a visiting slaver. His men ?
receive their orders. She is brought to him and subjected to rude assessments. If she is found sufficiently comely she is gagged ?
and hooded, and slave iron is locked upon her body. When this caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, ?
another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master.
One of the most interesting examples of such a case occurred in Venna some years ago, in the vicinity of the Stadium of ?
Tharlarion, where tharlarion races are held. Several young men captured for their sex sport what they took to be a slave girl, and ?
thrust her, gagged, her hands bound behind her, into the corner of one of the giant tharlarion stables behind the stadium. They ?
discovered only after her thorough and lengthy raping and their own apprehension that they had been lavishing their predatory ?
attentions not upon a slave but upon a young and beautiful free female who had been masquerading as a slave. Obviously the ?
case was complex. The decision of the judge was generally regarded as judicious. The young men were banished from the city. ?
Outside the gate, lying in the dust of the road leading from Venna, bound hand and foot, was the girl. She was clad in the rag of a ?
slave. The young men were seen leaving the vicinity of the city leading the girl behind them, her hands bound behind her, on a ?
neck-rope.
Guardsman

HOME STONE

"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself. Good land is protected only by the swords of the ?
strongest owners in the vicinity."
"Tarnsman of Gor" page 27
"Young men and women of the city, when coming of age, participate in a ceremony which involves the swearing of oaths, and the ?
sharing of bread, fire and salt. In this ceremony the Home Stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed. Only then are ?
the laurel wreath and the mantle of citizenship conferred. This is a moment no young person of Ar forgets. The youth of Earth ?
have no Home Stone. Citizenship, interestingly, in most Gorean cities is conferred only upon the coming of age, and only after ?
certain examinations are passed. Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related ?
in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take ?
the Home Stone of the city as his own. Citizenship in most Gorean communities is not something accrued in virtue of the accident ?
of birth but earned by virtue of intent and application. The sharing of a Home Stone is no light thing in a Gorean city." "Slave Girl ?
of Gor" page 394
"I am surprised to hear such sentiments," I said, "from those who must once have held and kissed the Home Stone of Ar."
This was a reference to the citizenship ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of ?
the city's Home Stone. This may be the only time in the life of a citizen of the city that they actually touch the Home Stone. In Ar, as ?
in many Gorean cities, citizenship is confirmed in a ceremony of this sort. Nonperformance of this ceremony, upon reaching ?
intellectual majority, can be a cause for expulsion from the city. The rationale seems to be that the community has a right to expect ?
allegiance from its members." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 303


Treason

"You have been found guilty of treason against your city and are under the sentence of impalement," said Aemilianus." ?
"Renegades of Gor" page 379
"Her mother, before her capture, I had gathered, had been important, having been the confirmation treasurer of one of ?
Torcadino's commercial councils, the Spice Council. She had also, in her position, I had gathered, and doubtless by her influence ?
and acts, supported the cause of Cos. (...) however, aside from all such considerations, was a citizeness of Torcadino, and ?
Torcadino had been sworn to the cause of Ar. She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, ?
betrayed the pledge of her Home Stone. In the case of a man this can be a capital offense. She was not a man, however but a ?
female. It was thus, doubtless, that she had not been placed on a proscription list, but only on a seizure list. It was her sex which ?
had saved her. Had she been a man she would have been hung." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 141


CITIES

"There is a saying on Gor that the laws of a city extend no further than its walls." "Outlaw of Gor" page 50
Maps

"It is illegal in many cities, incidentally, to take maps of the city out of the city. More than one fellow, too, has put himself in the ?
quarries or on the bench of a galley for having been caught with such a map in his possession." "Magicians of Gor" page 388


Building

"I knew that only those who were free would be permitted to make a city. Doubtless there were many slaves in Ko-ro-ba but they ?
would be allowed only to serve those who raised the walls and towers. Not one stone could be placed in either way or tower by a ?
man or woman who was not free. The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of ?
Masters, is Port Kar which lies in the delta of the Vosk." "Assassins of Gor" page 60


Entrance

"As was wise I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without ?
satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. Pikes on the ?
walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests." "Outlaw of Gor" page 49
"As we do have the yellow ostraka and our permits do not permit us to remain in the city after dark," said Marcus, "I think we ?
should venture now to the sun gate." Marcus was the sort of fellow who was concerned about such things, being arrested, ?
impaled, and such." "Magicians of Gor" page 9
"Kurrus, of the Caste of Assassins, entered the great gate of Ar. Guardsmen did not detain him, for he wore on his forehead the ?
mark of the black dagger." "Assassin of Gor" page 6
"When he of the Caste of Assassins has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, and ?
he may enter whatever city he pleases, and none may interfere with his work." "Assassin of Gor" page 7


CASTE

Outlaws

"A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by ?
definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 46


Caste knowledge

"On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge. Physicians, interestingly, perhaps ?
for a similar reason, tend to keep records in archaic Gorean, which is incomprehensible to most Goreans. Many craftsmen, ?
incidentally, keep such things as formulas for certain kinds of glass and alloys, and manufacturing processes, generally, in cipher. ?
Merchant law has been unsuccessful, as yet, in introducing such things as patents and copyrights on Gor. Such things do exist in ?
municipal law on Gor but the jurisdictions involved are, of course, local." "Magicians of Gor" page 394


Change Caste

"In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Caste to raise caste. None of course would accept a lower ?
caste, and there were lower castes, the caste of Peasants for example, the most basic Caste of all Gor." "Outlaw of Gor" page 27


Codes

"Lastly it might be mentioned that it is a capital offense for a locksmith, normally a member of the Metal Workers, to make an ?
unauthorized copy of a key, either to keep for himself or for another." "Assassin of Gor" page 52


Players

"In most cities it is regarded, incidentally, as a criminal offense to enslave one of the caste of players. A similar decree, in most ?
cities, stands against the enslavement of one who is of the caste of musicians." "Beasts of Gor" page 44
"The only other caste on Gor which is generally considered, for most practical purposes, as immune from bondage is the caste of ?
players. These are the fellows who make their living from the game of Kaissa, playing it for prizes, charging for games, giving ?
instruction and exhibitions, annotating games, and so on. They are usually poor fellows but generally have little trouble securing a ?
night's food and lodging for a game or two. The general affection and respect which Goreans feel for the game of Kaissa is ?
probably the explanation for the practical immunity from bondage commonly accorded the members of the caste of players." ?
"Kajira of Gor" page 298


Musicians

"Musicians on Gor, that is, members of the caste of musicians, are seldom, if ever, enslaved. Their immunity from bondage, or ?
practical immunity from bondage, is a matter of custom. There is a saying to the effect that he who makes music must, like the tarn ?
and the Vosk gull, be free. This is a saying, however, which I suspect was invented by the caste of musicians, to protect itself from ?
bondage." "Kajira of Gor" page 297/8


Thieves

"The caste of thieves was important in Port Kar, and even honored. It represented a skill which in the city was held in high repute. ?
Indeed, so jealous of their prerogatives were the caste of thieves that they often hunted thieves who did not belong to the caste, ?
and slew them, throwing their bodies to the urts in the canals. Indeed, there was less thievery in Port Kar than there might have ?
been were there no caste of thieves in the city. They protected, jealously, their own territories from amateur competition. Ear ?
notching and mutilation, common punishment on Gor for thieves, were not found in Port Kar. The caste was too powerful. On the ?
other hand, it was regarded as permissible to slay a male thief or take a female thief slave if the culprit could be apprehended ?
within an Ahn of the theft. After an Ahn the thief, if apprehended and a caste member, was be remanded to the police of the ?
arsenal. If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the ?
arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of ?
Port Kar's penal brothels. They are chained by the left ankle to a ring in the stone. Their food is that of a galley slave, peas, black ?
bread and onions. If they serve well, however, their customers often bring them a bit of meat or fruit. Few thieves of Port Kar ?
have not served time, depending on their sex, either in the arsenal or on the wharves, or in the brothels." "Hunters of Gor" page ?
304


FREE MEN

Family

"Some clue, then, as to her origins, may be there," I said. Goreans are usually rather careful about such things as crests, signs, ?
family emblems, and such. Sometimes such things are actually registered, and legally restricted in their use to given lines (...)" ?
"Mercenaries of Gor" page 292


Outlaws

"A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by ?
definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 45/6


Brigands

"Surely you are a brigand," said the woman to me. "No," I said. "Then you are a deserter," she said. "It would be death for you to ?
be found." "No," I said. "I am not a deserter." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 18


Spies and deserters

"Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake. ?
The stake was some ten feet in height, and some four inches in diameter. It had been wedged between rocks and braced with ?
stones. Its point was roughly sharpened, probably with an adz. This point had been entered in the victim's back and thrust ?
through with great force. It emerged from the belly, and protruded some two feet above the body. "Perhaps that is a spy," I said. ?
"More likely it is a straggler or a deserter," said the driver." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 40


Thieves

"I then grew again bitter. "She sold a slave of mine," I said "unknown to me and without right." "For a man," said Peggy, "such an ?
offense is punishable by exile. For a woman, remanded by a praetor, the penality is commonly that she herself will then wear the ?
collar." "Oh?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Enslave her." "Rogue of Gor" page 146
"Men would find us with the loot about, and impale us!" said the leader. That was not improbable. Thieves are often dealt with ?
harshly on Gor." "Renegades of Gor" page 11
"Turgus of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant ?
outstanding upon you, you are sentenced to banishment. If you are found within the limits of the city after sunset this day you will ?
be impaled." "Explorers of Gor" page 58
"Chain them and hang them in collars at the inn!" said a fellow. Sometimes a man lasts two or three days in this fashion.
"Chain them on the boards," cried another. That is a similar form of punishment. In it the victim is fastened, by collars and ?
shackles, on structures of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted on posts. These structures are most ?
common in harbor cities, near the wharves. The fellow who had made the suggestion was probably from the river port of Ar’s ?
Station. In the country, impalement is often used, the pole usually being set up near a crossroads.
"Let them be trampled by tharlarion," said a fellow.
"No, let them be torn apart by them," said another. In this fashion ropes are tied separately to the victim’s wrists and ankles, these ?
ropes then attached to the harnesses of two different tharlarion, which are, of course, then driven in opposite directions.
“Yes, that is better,” agreed the first.
If one shares a Home Stone with the victim, of course, the punishment is often more humane. A common punishment where this ?
mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him to a post, beat him with rods and then behead him. This, like the hanging in ?
chains, the exposure on boards, and such, is a very ancient modality of execution." "Renegades of Gor" page 14/5


Debtors

"Male slaves are usually debtors or criminals." "Beasts of Gor" page 236


Murderers

"Ha-Keel had been banished from Ar. It has been a matter of murder. A woman had been involved. He had captured, raped and ?
enslaved her, then selling her." "Fighting Slave of Gor" page 266
"Menicius!" he cried. "It was he who slew the Warrior of Thentis! Not I!" "I have taken gold," I told him. I would not yet speak to him ?
of Sura.
"It was Menicius!" he wept.
"It was you who gave the order," I said.
"I will give you gold!" he cried.
"You have nothing," said I, "Cernus." I regarded him evenly. "You have lost all."(...)
In an instant our blades had met in the swift discourse of flashing steel. He was an excellent swordsman, very fast, cunning, ?
strong.
"Excellent," I told him.
We moved about the room, over the tables and behind them, across the square of sand. Once Cernus, moving backward, ?
defending himself, fell over the dais, and my sword was at his throat.
"Well," I said, "will it be my steel or the impaling spear of Ar's justice?" "Let it be your steel," he said.
"Assassin of Gor" page 382/3


Enter a city

"As was wise I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without ?
satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. Pikes on the ?
walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with the remains of unwelcome guests.2 "Outlaw of Gor" page 49


False accusation of slavery

"Once, in Ko-ro-ba, I saw a slaver, before a magistrate, distinguish such a girl, not even one of his own, from eleven free women. ?
Each, in turn, was asked to pour him a cup of wine, and then withdraw, nothing more. At the end, the slaver rose to his feet and ?
pointed to one of the women.
“No!” she had cried. “I am free!” officers of the court, by order of the magistrate, removed her garments. If she were free, the ?
slaver would be impaled." "Hunters of Gor" page 156


Face-stripping

"Face-stripping a free woman, against her will, can be a serious crime on Gor. On the other hand, Corcyrus had now fallen. Her ?
women, thusly, now at the feet of her conquerors, would be little better than slaves. Any fate could now be inflicted on them that ?
the conquerors might wish, including making them actual slaves." "Kajira of Gor" page 183
"Public face-stripping is the removal of the veils from a FreeWoman's face by force. This is equivalent to stripping her completely ?
naked, but not so insulting is the removal of her Robes of Concealment. This is consider the worst offense which might be ?
performed against a FreeWoman. It is the right, duty and privilege of a Gorean FreeWoman to remain veiled. Even when captured ?
by the Warriors of an enemy city, the Freewoman will commonly be allowed to retain her veils at least until her final fate has been ?
decided. Sometimes, rather, she, stripped, and presented before officers, is offered the choice between swift, honorable ?
decapitation and slavery. If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a submission mat, and kneel there, head ?
down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The ?
question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. "If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance ?
now to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if ?
you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave." She is then expected, ?
sometimes, kneeling, to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the mat. It is commonly regarded as an acceptable ?
introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 337


Property

"By the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattles of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted ?
the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became ?
my h all; his riches mine, his slaves mine. It was thus that I had become a captain in Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa." ?
"Marauders of Gor" page 2
"It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given ?
individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative--or ?
nearest relative if no adult male relative is available--or to the city--or to, if pertinent, a guardian. Thus if Aphris of Turia, by some ?
mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, ?
merchant of Turia. Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is ?
assymetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim ?
whatsoever on the transferred assets." "Nomads of Gor" page 103


Taxes

"The next fellow had lied about his taxes. He would be hung, a hook through his tongue, in a market. His properties were to be ?
confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state. It was conjectured that, when he was ?
removed from the pole, if he were still alive, he would be more careful in his accounts." "Explorers of Gor" page 231

Punishment of Free Man

"I gathered, from the blinding and the mark on his forehead, that the man had once offended a slaver, a man of power in the city." ?
"Assassin of Gor" page 31


FREE WOMEN

Treason

"I wished that I were a slave, that I might have a chance for life, that I might have an opportunity to convince a master somehow, in ?
any way possible, that I might be worth sparing. But I was a free woman and would be subjected to the cold and inhuman mercies ?
of the law. I was being transported to Argentum for impalement." "Kajira of Gor" page 190


Home Stone

“You understand further, of course,” said he, “that under Gorean merchant law, which is the only law commonly acknowledged ?
binding between cities, that you stand under separate permissions of enslavement. First, were you of Ar, it would be my right, ?
could I be successful, to make of you a slave, for we share no Home Stone. Secondly, though you speak of yourself as the Lady ?
Elicia of Ar, of Six Towers, you are, in actuality, Miss Elicia Nevins of the planet Earth. You are an Earth girl and thus stand within a ?
general permission of enslavement, fair beauty quarry to any Gorean male whatsoever." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 394


Use of veils

"In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be, for most ?
practical purposes unknown, even among free women. The cities of Gor are numerous and pluralistic. Each has its own history, ?
customs and traditions." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 108
"She was veiled, as is common for Gorean women in the high cities, particularly those of station. In some cities the veil is ?
prescribed by law for free women, as well as by custom and etiquette. "Vagabonds of Gor" page 26
"In some cities an unveiled free woman is susceptible to being taken into custody by guardsmen, veiled, by force if necessary, ?
and publicly conducted back to her home. Indeed, in some cities she is marched back to her home stripped, except for the face ?
veil, which has been put on her. In these cases a crowd usually follows, to see what home it is that she is to be returned. ?
Repeated offenses in such a city usually result in the enslavement of the female. Such serious measures, of course, are seldom ?
required to protect such familiar Gorean proprieties. Custom, by itself, normally suffices." "Players of Gor" page 125
"Veils are worn in various numbers and combinations by Gorean free women, this tending to vary by preference and caste. Many ?
low-class Gorean women own only a single veil which must do for all purposes.(...) The veil, it might be noted, is not legally ?
imperative for a free woman; it is rather a matter of modesty and custom. Some low-class, uncompanioned, free girls do not wear ?
veils. Similarly certain bold free women neglect the veil. Neglect of the veil is not a crime in Gorean cities, though in some it is ?
deemed a brazen and scandalous omission." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 107
"Then he jerked away the veil of state from my features. I, though a free woman, had been face-stripped before free men. My face ?
was as bare to them as though I might be a slave. Face-stripping a free woman, against her will, can be a serious crime on Gor. On ?
the other hand, Corcyrus had now fallen. Her women, thusly, now at the feet of her conquerors, would be little better than slaves. ?
Any fate could now be inflicted on them that the conquerors might wish, including making them actual slaves." "Kajira of Gor" ?
page 183


Robes of concealment

"On Ar's Station," he said, "as in Ar, robes of concealment, precisely, are not legally obligatory for free women, mo more than the ?
veil. Such things are more a matter of custom. On the other hand, as you know, there are statues prescribing certain standards of ?
decorum for free women, For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who ?
appears in public violation of these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be a slave." ?
"Renegades of Gor" page 367


Attacking Men
"After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been ?
foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water ?
lizards." "Tarnsman of Gor" page 92


Addressing Men

"He now had her kneeling naked at his feet, addressing him as "Master". In the Gorean culture, of course, this sort of thing is very ?
significant. Indeed, in some cities such things as kneeling before a man or addressing him as "Master" effects legal imbondment ?
on the female, being interpreted as a gesture of submission." "Players of Gor" page 139
"I called you Master!" she cried. "Am I yet legally free?" "Yes," I said, "but I think it will be well for you to accustom yourself to ?
calling free men Master." "Yes!" I decided that I would not yet grant her the collar, ripe for it though she might be. She was a free ?
woman. I would make her wait longer, in frustration, for it." "Renegades of Gor" page 147


Slave behaviour

"Gorean Free Woman is expected to keep her virtuous status or else choose the fate of an honorable death than accept eternal ?
slavery. It is very rare that a Free Woman would give up her freedom and is willing to suffer the cruel sentence of death than be ?
humiliated and degraded into bondage. Many Gorean Freewomen would rarely visit, much less frequent, a public paga tavern, as ?
such places are, in essence, a Gorean cross between a strip-joint and a brothel. The men who visit such places do so because ?
they have come to have sex with the slaves for the price of a cup of paga, or because they wish to take their ease and comfort in ?
such a den of disrepute. To the mind of the Gorean male, any FreeWoman showing true yearning desires of lust and submissive ?
behavior that is openly displayed by a collared slave girl deserves to be one. It is said eventually the FreeWoman will sooner or ?
later have to prove such accusations as false. However, if the honor of a FreeWoman, after many offenses committed, can not be ?
held She will be stripped and collared. In the mind of the Gorean male and that of the rules of Gorean society, if the slave-like ?
behavior is continued, the FreeWoman is actively wanting enslavement and is considered to be "courting the collar". It is general ?
practice to bestow upon the FreeWoman a brand and collar of her very own." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 221
"Conduct indicating suitability for the collar," of course, can be interpreted in various ways, and more broadly and narrowly. It is ?
almost always understood, of course, fortunately for women, and as I suppose the phrase itself makes clear, in the special legal ?
sense of the phrase, as having to do with overt behavior rather than psychological predispositions and such. Many Gorean men ?
believe that all women are natural slaves, and thus, in a sense, all are eminently suitable for the collar. But even taken in the ?
appropriate, legal behavioral sense the phrase is, as may well be imagined, subject to diverse interpretations.
For example, in the present case, a judge would be expected to decide whether or not the behaviors of the sort performed, ?
constituted behavior for which the collar might be suitably imposed." "Renegades of Gor" page 372
"I had left some slave beads in recompense, of course, pretty beads of cheap wood, such as are cast about in festivals, ?
sometimes even being seized up secretly by free women who put them on before their mirrors, in secret, as though they might be ?
slaves. In many cities, incidentally, a woman who is discovered doing such a thing may be remanded to magistrates for ?
impressment into bondage." "Vagabonds of Gor" page 69


Spy on Masters

"For example, sometimes free women attempt, sometimes even disguising themselves, to spy on the doings of masters and ?
slaves. For example, they might attempt, disguised as lads, to gain entrance to paga taverns. And often such entrance in granted ?
them but later, to their horror, they may find themselves thrown naked to the dancing sand and forced to perform under whips. ?
Similarly if they attempt to enter such establishments as pretended slaves they may find themselves leaving them by the back ?
entrance, soon to become true slaves. In many cities, such actions, attempting to spy on masters and slaves, disguising oneself as ?
a slave, garbing oneself as a slave, even in the supposed secrecy of one's own compartments, lingering about slave shelves and ?
markets, even exhibiting an interest in, or fascination with, bondage, can result in reduction to bondage. The theory is apparently ?
that such actions and interests are those of a slave, and that the female who exhibits them should, accordingly, be imbonded." ?
"Magicians of Gor" page 50


Nakedeness

"For example, they may not appear naked in the streets, as may slaves. Indeed, a free woman who appears in public in violation of ?
these standards of decorum, for example, with her arms or legs too much bared, may be made a slave." "Renegades of Gor" page ?
367/8
"Contrarywise, almost no free woman would bare her legs. They would not dare to do so. They would be horrified even to think of ?
it. The scandal of such an act could ruin a reputation. It is said on Gor, any woman who bares her legs is a slave. Indeed, in some ?
cities a free woman who might be found with bare legs is taken in hand by magistrates, trialed and sentenced to bondage. After ?
the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, ?
that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be ?
offended, she is hooded and transported, stripped and chained, freshly branded and collared, a property female, slave cargo, to a ?
distant market where, once sold, she will begin her life anew, fearfully, as a purchased girl, tremulously as the helpless and lowly ?
slave she now is." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 69
"There was no crime then", she said, "in my appearing in public as I did, even thogh, say, I wore but a single layer and my calves, ?
ankles and feet were bared."
Wether the degree of your exposure was sufficient to violate the codes of decorum is a subtle point," said Aemilianus, "but I will ?
not press it."
"Surely many low-caste girls go about with only as much, or even less," she said." "Renegades of Gor" page 368


Public Dancing

"No free woman, for example, would dare place herself in such a position before Gorean free men, unless perhaps, weary of her ?
misery and frustration, she was begging them, almost explicitly, to put her in a collar. There are many stories of Gorean free ?
women, sometimes of high caste, who, as a lark or in a spirit of bold play, dared to dance in a paga tavern. Often, perhaps to their ?
horror, they found themselves that very night hooded and gagged, locked in close chains, lying on their back, their legs drawn up, ?
fastened in a wagon, chained by the neck and ankles, their small bodies bruised on the rough boards as they, helpless beneath a ?
rough tarn blanket, are carried through the gates of their city." "Explorers of Gor" page 342
"The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrent her reduction to ?
slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for ?
example, in cases of indigency and vagrancy. Prostitution, rare on Gor because of female slaves, is another case. The women are ?
taken, enslaved, cleaned up and controlled. Indulgence in sensual dance is another case. Sensuous dance is almost always ?
performed by slaves on Gor. A free woman who performs such dancing publicly is almost begging for the collar. In some cities the ?
setence of bondage is mandatory for such a woman." "Renegade of Gor" page 372
"Certainly, however, not all women are legal slaves. Many women are free , legally , whether it is in their best interest or not. Such ?
dances then, "slave dances," at least on Gor, are not for such women. If a "free woman," that is, one legally free, were to publicaly ?
perform such a dance on Gor she would probably find herself in a master's chains by morning. Her "legal freedom," we may ?
speculate, would prove quite fleeting." "Dancer of Gor" page 172


Capture

"Sometimes, however, the free woman in a captured city is not, say, simply stripped, thrown down and tied, later to be turned over ?
to an iron master for the searing kiss of his white hot metal. Sometimes, rather, she stripped, and presented before officers, is ?
offered the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a ?
submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, ?
belly to an officer, kissing his feet. The question is sometimes put to her in somewhat the following fashion. "If you are a free ?
woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been ?
masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming ?
at last, explicitly, a legal slave." She is then expected, sometimes, kneeling to lick the feet of a soldier, who then rapes her on the ?
mat. It is commonly regarded as an acceptable introduction for a woman to her explicit and legal slavery." "Blood Brothers of Gor" ?
page 337
"We were put on the racks as free women," she said, "that we, the women of the enemy, be properly humiliated. Too is it not a rich ?
joke for the men of Ar that more than a thousand of the free women of Vonda adorn their pleasure racks, fastened down like slave ?
girls, their use available for a tarsk bit to the passers-by?" "Rogue of Gor" page 27
"The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided ?
females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves." "Assassin of Gor" page. 159
"Few seem to object to the institution of capture, not even the women who might seem to be its victims. On the contrary, ?
incredibly enough, their vanity is terribly outraged if they are not regarded as worth the risks, usually mutilation and impalement." ?
"Outlaw of Gor" page 51.
"Something of the nature of the institution of capture, and the Gorean's attitude toward it becomes clear when it is understood ?
that one of a young tarnsman's first missions is often the capture of a slave for his personal quarters. When he brings home his ?
captive, bound naked across the saddle of his tarn, he gives her over, rejoicing, to his sisters, to be bathed, perfumed and ?
clothed in the brief slave livery of Gor." "Outlaw of Gor" page 51/2
"On the other hand, in spite of the theories pertaining to such matters, free women are certainly not immune to the fates of ?
capture and enslavement. Many men, despite the theories pertaining to such matters, and accepting the risks involved, enjoy ?
taking them. Some slavers specialize in the capture of free women. Indeed, it is thought by some, perhaps largely because of the ?
additional risks involved, and the interest in seeing what one has caught, that there is a special spice and flavor about taking ?
them. Similarly it is said to be pleasant, if one has the time and patience, first to their horror and then to their joy, training them to ?
the collar." "Rogue of Gor" page 42
"The free women is entitled to attempt to flee her captor , as best she can, and without penalty, even after the first night in his ?
bonds, if she still chooses to do so. If she is enslaved, of course, then she is subject too, the same customs, and practices, and ?
laws, as any other slave." "Dancer of Gor" page 95/6
"She was his by legitimate capture, and he could do with her whatever he pleased. Any court on Gor would have upheld this." ?
"Players of Gor" page 15


Couching law

"I was taken pursuant to the couching laws," she said. "I see," I said. Any free woman who voluntarily couches with another's ?
slave, or readies herself to do so, becomes the slave of the slave's master. By such an act, the couching with, or readying herself ?
to couch with, a slave, as though she might be a girl of the slave's master, thrown to the slave, she shows herself as no more than ?
a slave, and in this act, in law, becomes a slave. Who then should own her, this new slave? Why, of course, he to whom the law ?
consigns her, the master of the slave with whom she has couched, or was preparing to couch." "Magicians of Gor" page 303
"Free me!" she said.
"You would have us compromise our honor?" asked Tolnar.
"I order you to do so," she said.
Tolnar smiled.
"Why do you smile?" she asked.
"How can a slave order a free person to do anything?" he asked.
"A slave!" she cried. "How dare you!"
"You are taken into bondage," said Tolnar, "under the couching laws of Marlenus of Ar. Any free woman who couches with, or ?
prepares to couch with, a male slave, becomes herself a slave, and the property of the male slave's master." "Magicians of Gor" ?
page 455


Indigence and vagrancy

"The principle he had alluded to pertains to conduct in a free woman which is taken as sufficient to warrant her reduction to ?
slavery. The most common application of this principle occurs in areas such as fraud or theft. Other applications may occur, for ?
example, in cases of indigence and vagrancy." "Renegades Of Gor" page 372
"I saw some girls rummaging through a garbage can. They wore short tunics but they were not slaves. Goreans sometimes refer ?
to such women as "strays." They are civic nuisances. They are occasionally rounded up, guardsmen appearing at opposite ends ?
of an alley, trapping them, and collared." "Kajira of Gor" page 139
"I might try to live by begging and scavenging garbage for a time as do those vagrant free women sometimes called she-urts, but I ?
being collared, could never pass by one.(...) Once or twice a year, particularly when there are complaints, or they are becoming ?
nuisances, many of them will be rounded up and taken before a praetor. Their sentence is almost invariably slavery." "Kajira of ?
Gor" page 316


Debts - redemption laws

"She lived from men, following them and exploiting them," I said. "She was a debtor slut. I paid her bills and thus came into her de ?
facto ownership, through the redemption laws." "Renegades of Gor" page 172
"Women such as these, those at the wall, would be surrendered by the management of the inn for the equivalent of their unpaid ?
bills. They would then be in the power of their "redeemers," any who might make good their debts. Lacking such a "redemption" ?
they might then expect to find themselves, sooner or later, sold as slaves. In this way the inn usually recovers its money and, not ?
unoften, turns a profit. Particularly beautiful specimens are sometimes kept by the inn itself, as inn slaves." "Renegades of Gor" ?
page 42
"Also, a female debtor, in many cities, is subject to judicial enslavement, she then coming rightlessly and categorically, identically ?
with any other slave, into the ownership of the creditor." "Magicians of Gor" page 275
"Nela had been a slave since the age of fourteen. To my surprise she was a native of Ar. She had lived alone with her father, who ?
had gambled heavily on the races. He had died and to satisfy his debts, no others coming forth to resolve them, the daughter, as ?
Gorean law commonly prescribes, became state property; she was then, following the law, put up for sale at public auction; the ?
proceeds of her sale were used, again following the mandate of the law, to liquidate as equitable as possible the unsatisfied ?
claims of creditors." "Assassin of Gor" page 164
"The mills, incidentally, like certain other low slaveries, such as those of the fields, the kitchens and laundries, serve an almost ?
penal function on Gor. For example, a free woman, sentenced to slavery for, say, crimes or debts, may find herself, once enslaved, ?
by direction of the court, sold for a pittance into such a slavery. Such slaveries also provide a place to utilize women who are ?
thought to be good for little else." "Kajira of Gor" page 265


Stealing

"Her ear," I said. "Her ear was notched." Rim and Thurnock laughed. "A thief," said Thurnock. (...) I suddenly recognized the girl. It ?
was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the sensuous little wench, whose ear had been notched.(...) I well knew what the ?
punishment was for a Gorean female, following her second conviction for theft. "Hunters of Gor" page 47/9
"The Lady Sasi, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general ?
warrant outstanding upon her, must come under sentence." "Please, my officer," she begged. "Please sentence me only to a ?
penal brothel!" "The penal brothel is too good for you," said the praetor." "Explorers of Gor" page 58
"A female thief in Tor, even on a first offense, is immediately reduced to slavery." "Tribesmen of Gor" page 52


Self enslavement

"They had declared themselves slaves. The slave herself, of course, once the declaration has been made, cannot revoke it. That ?
would be impossible, for she is then only a slave. The slave can only be freed by one who is at the time her master, or, if it should ?
be the case, her mistress." "Explorers of Gor" page 409
'You understand, do you not,' I asked the girl, 'the meaning of this?'
'Yes,' she said.
'You may freely enter into the state of bondage,' I told her, 'but you may not freely leave it. This thing, once it is done to you, is, ?
one 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.'
'I understand,' she said. She then turned to the young man, 'I am ready,' she said, 'Make me a slave." "Blood Brothers of Gor" ?
page 298
"Pronounce yourself slave," said Samos. The fellow relaxed his grip on the hilth.
"I am a slave," she said, pronouncing herself slave. Several of the slave girls cried out. There was now a new slave on Gor.
At a gesture from Samos the fellow with the blade resheathed the weapon, and the two guards who had held the girl in position ?
released her, standing up. She was now on her hands and knees, naked on the tiles, before the table. She looked wildly at Samos. ?
"See the slave!" laughed more than one of the slave girls pointing at her. They were not reprimended. The girl, frightened, looked ?
from face to face. The words had been spoken. They could not now be unspoken. She was now rightless, only a nameless animal, ?
incapable of doing anything whatsoever to qualify or alter her status." "Players of Gor" page 17
"In most cities, on the other hand, a free woman may, with legal tolerance, submit herself as a slave to a specific man. If he refuses ?
her, she is then still free. If he accepts her, she is then, categorically, a slave, and he may do with her what he pleases, even ?
selling her or giving her away, or slaying her, if he wishes. Here we may note a distinction between laws and codes. In the codes ?
of the warriors, if a warrior accepts a woman as a slave, it is prescribed that, at least for a time, an amount of time up to his ?
discretion, she be spared. If she should be the least displeasing, of course, or should prove recalcitrant in even a tiny way, she ?
may be immediately disposed of. It should be noted that this does place a legal obligation on the warrior. It has to do, rather, with ?
the proprieties of the codes." "Players of Gor" page 21
"He might have you sign a slave document, in the presence of witnesses. As soon as your signature is on the document, of ?
course, you are a slave. On the other hand, he might proceed even more simply. He might merely have you utter a formula of ?
enslavement, though, again, doubtless in the presence of witnesses, who might sign a paper certifying their witnessing of your ?
declaration. Let us suppose you utter such a formula. The simplest is perhaps, ‘I am a slave.’ You are then a slave. He will perhaps ?
then say, ‘You are my slave.’ This claims you. You are then his slave." "Mercenaries of Gor" page 417
"Sometimes a free woman, seeking to save her life, even at the expense of a slave, will remove the slave's collar and put it on her ?
own throat, thinking thereby to pass for a slave.(...)
What the woman in her collar seldom understands is that she, herself, is now also, genuinely, a female slave. She, by her own ?
action, in locking the collar on her own neck, as much as if she had spoken a formula of enslavement, is now also a slave." ?
"Vagabonds of Gor" page 70/1


self-contracting

"If a free woman would assure herself of a man's love she could not do better than, in effect, become his slave. She can beg of ?
him, if she senses in herself the true bondage of love, an enslavement ceremony, in which she proclaims herself, and becomes, ?
his slave. In their most secret and intimate relations thereafter she lives and loves as his slave. If a woman fears to do this she ?
may, on an experimental basis, resort to limited self-contracting, in which her documents will contain stated termination dates. ?
Thus, by her own free will, she becomes a slave for a specific period, ranging usually from an evening to a year. The woman ?
enters into this arrangement freely; she cannot, of course, withdraw from it in the same way. The reason for this is clear. As soon ?
as the words are spoken, or her signature is placed on the pertinant document, or documents, she is no longer a free person. She ?
is then only a slave, an animal, no longer with any legal powers whatsoever. She is then, until the completion of the contractual ?
period, until the expiration date of the arrangement, totally subject to the will of her Master." "Blood Brothers of Gor" page 101/2


Saving life

"And yet it was not a strange thing, particularly not on Gor, where bravery is highly esteemed and to save a female's life is in ?
effect to win title to it, for it is the option of a Gorean male to enslave any woman whose life he has saved, a right which is seldom ?
denied even by the citizens of the girl's city or her family. The Gorean man, as a man, cheerfully and dutifully attends to the ?
rescuing of his female in distress, but as a Gorean, as a true Gorean, he feels, perhaps justifiably and being somewhat less or ?
more romantic than ourselves, that he should have something more for his pains than her kiss of gratitude and so, in typical ?
Gorean fashion, puts his chain on the wench, claiming both her and her body as his payment." "Priest Kings of Gor" page 138


Selling women

"In most Gorean cities it is illegal to offer an unbranded woman in a public sale. This is presumably in deference to the delicacy ?
and sensibilities of free women. The brand draws a cataclysmic gulf between the Gorean free woman, secure in her arrogance, ?
beauty and caste rights, and the stripped, nameless, rightless slaves, suitably vended as the mere lovely beasts they are in the ?
flesh markets of this primitive, gorgeous world. Unbranded women, of course, may be sold privately, for example, as fresh ?
captures to slavers, or, say to men who have speculated that they might find them of interest." "Savages of Gor" page 101


Property

"It then occurred to me, suddenly, that, following Gorean civic law, the properties and titles, assets and goods of a given ?
individual who is reduced to slavery are automatically regarded as having been transferred to the nearest male relative--or ?
nearest relative if no adult male relative is available--or to the city--or to, if pertinent, a guardian. Thus if Aphris of Turia, by some ?
mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, ?
merchant of Turia. Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is ?
assymetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim ?
whatsoever on the transferred assets." "Nomads of Gor" page 103


Caste and citizenship

"When a girl is enslaved, she loses caste, of course, as well as citizenship, rights and personhood, When she is enslaved, she ?
becomes an animal, subject to the whips and wills of Master's." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 430


Punishment

“"I suppose," I said, "I should be pleased that you did not order me to strip completely and kneel before you." "You are, of ?
course," he said, "a free woman." “Yet it seems,” I said, “ if only implicitly, you have threatened me.” "Suitable disciplines and ?
punishments may be arranged for a free woman," he said, "suitable to her status and dignity." "I am sure of it," I said, ironically.” ?
"Kajira of Gor" page 17


Judicial Enslavement

"It is a judicial enslavement," he said.
With Rim and Thurnock, moving in the crowd, I craned for a look.
I saw first the girl, stumbling. She was already stripped. Her hands were tied behind her back. Something, pushing her from ?
behind, had been fastened on her neck. Behind her came a flat-topped wagon, of some four feet in height. It was moved by eight ?
tunicked, collared slave girls, two to each wheel, pushing at the wheels. It was guided by a man walking behind it, by means of a ?
lever extending back, under the wagon, from the front axle. Flanking the wagon, on both sides, were the musicians, with their ?
drums and flutes. Behind the wagon, in the white robes trimmed with gold and purple of merchant magistrates, came five men. I ?
recognized them as judges.
A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet. There was, at its termination, a semicircular leather cushion, ?
with a short chain. The girl's neck had been forced back against the cushion, and then the chain had been fastened, securing her, ?
standing, in place. As the wagon moved forward, she was, thus, forced to walk before it. The pole, projecting out from the wagon, ?
isolated her, keeping her from other human beings. The music became louder.
I suddenly recognized the girl. It was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the sensuous little wench, whose ear had been ?
notched. I gather that she had not had such good fortune later in the day. I well knew what the punishment was for a Gorean ?
female, following her second conviction for theft.
On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the ?
handles of two irons. Also mounted on the wagon was a branding rack, of the sort popular in Tyros. It was, I conjectured another ?
instance of the cultural minglings which characterized the port of Lydius.
The wagon stopped on the broad street, before the wharves, where the crowd could gather about.
A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface. The other judges stood below him, on the street.
The girl pulled at the leather binding fiber fastening her wrists behind her back. She moved her neck and head in the confinement ?
of the chain and leather, at the end of the pole.
"Will the Lady Tina of Lydius deign to face me?" asked the judge, using the courteous tones and terminology with which Gorean ?
free women, often inordinately honored, are addressed. I looked quickly at Rim and Thurnock. "Tina!" I said.
They grinned. "It must be she," said Rim, "who drugged Arn, and took his gold." Thurnock grinned.
I, too, smiled. It must indeed be she. Arn, I supposed, would have much relished being here.
I suspected that little Tina would cut few purses in the future.
"Will the Lady Tina of Lydius please deign to face me?" asked the judge, with the same courtesy as before.
The girl turned in the chain and leather to face her judge, standing removed from her and above her, in his white robes, trimmed ?
with two borders, one of gold, the other of purple. "You have been tried, and convicted, of the crime of theft," intoned the judge.
"She stole two gold pieces from me!" cried a man standing in the crowd. "And I had witnesses!"
"It took an Ahn to catch her," said another man, laughing.
The judge paid no attention to these speakings.
"You have been tried and convicted of the crime of theft," said the judge, "for the second time."
The girl's eyes were terrified. "It is now my duty, Lady Tina," said the judge, "to pass sentence upon you."
She looked up at him.
"Do you understand?" he asked.
"Yes," she said, "my judge."
"Are you prepared now, Lady Tina of Lydius," asked the judge, to hear your sentence?"
"Yes," she said, regarding him, "my judge."
"I herewith sentence you, Lady Tina of Lydius," said the judge, "to slavery." There was a shout of pleasure from the crowd. The ?
girl's head was down. She had been sentenced.
"Bring her to the rack," said the judge.
The man who had guided the wagon from the rear, and had now locked the brake on the front wheels, went to the bound girl. He ?
unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole; and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still ?
tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. She then stood beside her judge, barefoot on the flat-topped, ?
wooden wagon. Her head was down.
"Lady Tina," requested the judge, "go to the rack."
Wordlessly, the girl went and stood by the rack, her back to the curved iron. The man who had brought her to the wagon now knelt ?
before her, locking metal clasps on her ankles.
He then went behind her, and unbound her wrists. "Place your hands over your head," he said. She did so. "Bend your elbows," ?
he said. She did so. "Lie back," he then said, supporting her. She did so, and was stretched over the curved iron. He then took ?
her wrists and pulled her arms almost straight. He then locked her wrists in metal clasps, similar to those, though smaller, which ?
confined her ankles. Her head was down. He then bent to metal pieces, heavy, curved and hinged, which were attached to the ?
sides of the rack, and a bit forward. Each piece consisted of two curved, flattish bands, joining at the top. He lifted them, and ?
dropped them into place. Then, with two keys, hanging on tiny chains at the sides, he tightened the bands. They were vises. She ?
might now be branded on either the left or right thigh. There was ample room, I noted, between the bands, on either side, to press ?
the iron. She was held perfectly. Her tanned thigh could not protest so much as by the slightest tremor. She would be marked ?
cleanly.
The man, placing heavy gloves on his hands, withdrew from the brazier a slave iron. Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, ?
the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira. It is a beautiful letter.
The judge looked down upon the Lady Tina of Lydius. She, fastened over the rack, stripped, looked up at him, in his robes, those ?
with two borders, one of gold, the other of purple. Her eyes were wild.
"Brand the Lady Tina of Lydius," he said. "Brand her slave." Then he turned, and departed from the platform.
The girl gave a terrible scream.
There was a shout from the crowd.
The man now, swiftly, brutally, released the girl, spinning open the vises, and dropping them against the rack, unfastening her ?
wrists and ankles, and dragged her to her feet. Her hair was over her face. She was weeping.
The man's hand was strong on her arm. "Here is a nameless slave!" he cried. "What am I bid for her?"
"Hunters of Gor" page 48/51


SLAVES

Testimony

"The judge gave a signal and the long handle of the rack, fitting through a rectangular hole in the axle, moved again.
The girl winced, but she did not cry out.
"Look again carefully upon the accused," said Ibn Saran. I saw her eyes upon me. "Was it he who struck Suleiman Pasha?"
"It was he," she said.
"Are you absolutely certain?" he asked.
"Yes," she said.
"It is enough," said the judge. He gave a signal. The handle spun back. The girl's body fell into the network of knotted ropes."
"Tribesmen of Gor" page 114
"The bodies of two girls, stripped, lay on the narrow rectangle, networks, of knotted ropes, on the racks. The hand were at their ?
sides, but ropes were attached to them, and fixed on the axle of the windlass, above their heads. Both wore collars. Their ankles ?
were roped to the foot of the device.(...) Her wrists, and those of the other girl, as the long wooden handles turned, were pulled ?
up and over her head. The red-haired girl writhed on the cords. (...)
At a sign from the judge the handle moved once, dropping the wooden pawl into the ratchet notch. Her body was now tight on the ?
rack; her toes were pointed; her hands were high over her head, the rough rope slipped up her wrists, prohibited from moving ?
further by its knots and the wide part of her hands." "Tribesmen of Gor" page 111


Legal Status

"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." "Explorers of Gor" page 316


Freedom

"The slave cannot free herself. She can be freed only by an owner. The condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the ?
brand, or an anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage. Such things, as symbolic as they are, as profoundly ?
meaningful as they are, and as useful as they are for marking properties, identifying masters, and such, are not necessary to ?
slavery. They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally effect imbondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and ?
are not to be confused with the reality itself. The uncollared slave is not then a free woman but only a slave who is not then in a ?
collar. Similarly a slave is still a slave even if her brand could be made to magically disappear or, if she has been made a slave in ?
some other way, if she has not yet been branded. Indeed, some masters, somewhat foolishly, I think, dally in the branding of their ?
slaves. Indeed, some, perhaps the most foolish, do not brand them at all. Such girls, however, when they come into the keeping of ?
new masters, usually discover that oversight is promptly remedied." "Renegades of Gor" page 273


Home Stone

"You are an Earth girl and thus stand within a general permission of enslavement, fair beauty quarry to any Gorean male ?
whatsoever." Earth had no Home Stones. No legalities, thus, were contravened in capturing them and making of them abject slave ?
girls. "The first to capture you, owns you," he said. "Prepare to be leashed as a slave." "Slave Girl of Gor" page 394


Property
"Surely you are aware," said Saphrar, "that a slave cannot own property --- any more than a kaiila, a tharlarion or sleen." "Nomads ?
of Gor" page 132


Name
"On Gor a slave, not being legally a person, does not have a name in his own right, just as, on earth, our domestic animals, not ?
being persons before the law, do not have names. That name which he has had from birth, by which he has called himself and ?
knows himself, that name which is so much a part of his own conception of himself, of his own true and most intimate identity, is ?
suddenly gone." "Outlaw of Gor" page 197


Slave Markets at the Fair
"Although no one may be enslaved at the fair, slaves may be bought and sold within its precincts." "Priest Kings of Gor" page 12


Slave Documents
"Some female slaves, incidentally, have a pedigreed lineage going back through several generations of slave matings, and their ?
masters hold the papers to prove this. It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers." "Savages of Gor" page 69
"Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, banished from that city, and nearly impaled, for falsifying slave data. He had advertised a girl as ?
a trained pleasure slave who, as it turned out, did not even know the eleven kisses." "Explorers of Gor." page 36?
"And these papers," I said, "are pertinent to you. They are all in order. I had Tolnar and Venlisius prepare them, before they left."
"Papers, Master?" he asked.
"You can read?" I asked.
"Yes, Master," he said.
"Do not call me 'Master'." I said.
"Master?" he asked.
"The papers are papers of manumission," I said. "I am no longer your master. You no longer have a master."
"Manumission," he asked.
"You are free," I told him." "Magicians of Gor" page 460


Capture
"The fact that I now realized I was subject to theft frightened me, but it, too, like many other things, seemed an attachment of my ?
condition, a simple consequence of what I was. I recalled hearing now, in the house, of "capture rights," respected in law. I had ?
originally thought these rights referred to the acquisition of free women but I had later realized they must pertain, more generally, ?
to the acquisition of properties in general, including slaves. I had not thought much about such things, in a real, or practical ?
sense, until now, now that I was outside of the house. I tried to recall my lessons. Theft, or capture, if you prefer, conferred rights ?
over me. I would belong to, and must fully serve, anyone into whose effective possession I came, even if it had been by theft. The ?
original master, of course, has the right to try to recover his property, which remains technically his for a period of one week. If I ?
were to flee the thief, however, after he has consolidated his hold on me, for example, kept me for even a night, I could, actually in ?
Gorean law, be counted as a runaway slave, from him, even though he did not technically own me yet, and punished accordingly. ?
Analogies are that is not permitted to animals to challenge the tethers on their necks, or flee the posts within which they find ?
themselves penned, that money must retain i

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