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Kajira of Gor

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At this point I am reading the rest of the Gor novels simply to be able to say that I finished the series. Don't get me wrong, the eroticism of submission has been well (and HEAVILY) illustrated, but if I see one more woman tricked into slavery, saying she was a slave all along masquerading as a free woman, another comment on how ALL women are slaves and not truely happy unless at the feet of a man, I would happily throw these books all out. Norman is certainly entitled to his philosophy, and I have much respect for the women who chose to model a lifestyle after him (with submissive tendencies myself), but isn't there a point where you are just beating the proverbial dead horse to an even bloodier pulp?

Also, please tell me how many people have actually read the portions of the story where he describes a game of Kaissa or the measurements of the war ships. I've been able to skip several sections of these books without losing out on any of the story.

Having read all of the Gor books, this is one of my favorites. For those who are into the slavery angle, this has the delicious forced submission of Judy Thornton to her former rival, Elicia Nevins, who makes Judy her abject slave. Turn about is fair play when Elicia is forced to submit as well.

John Normans Counter-Earth of Gor is nearly as detailed, maybe more detailed, than Middle-Earth. But you can't really compare them, because they're not even quite in the same genre.

Like Middle-Earth, Gor is full of strange creatures and unique yet Earth-like landscape, but unlike Middle-Earth, it's not the animals that are interesting, it's the humans.

Kajira of Gor is told from the point of view of an Earth "Barbarian" named Tiffany Collins. An ordinary woman of unusual beauty ('Slave curves' is a term often used in the book) who finds herself first treated like a slave bu strangers in her oun appartment, and the next minute Tatrix of Corcius, or Queen of a city on Gor.

SPOILER ALERT! Don't read any further if you don't want me to spoil it!

Although she has authority over life and death in the city and even has a slavegirl under her oun direct command, she is treated like a slave by a han who I gather is like her Visere.
And Susan who serves her, herself a Barbarian, is actually ouned by that man, and has simply been told to serve the Tatrix and instruct her to be more Gorean.

But all this is just part of a conspiracy. courcius is at war with Ar, aparantly courcius is loseing the war and, if the true Tatrix were found, she would be taken to Ar like a slave and then impaled. so they found some stupid Earth purfume counder sales girl who looks a bit like the Tatrix and made her parade around the city without a veil (Freewomen on Gor wear veils, and for a Tyraness being recognizeable is particularly dangerous.)

tiffany only saw the true Tatrix momentarially, she was veiled but otherwize disguised as a slave, and Tiffany was basically left there as a decoy as Ar stormed the tower while the true Tatrix escapes as a slave.


That's only the first fiew chapters.

I would reccomend the works of John Norman to men and women.

it's a very erotic book about submission and arousal, and the connection thereof. on Gor, the 60's never happened. The American civil war never happened. Hell, the Industrial Revolution never happened. The result is that Gorean men are true men and Gorean women are true women (except for Freewomen, who are just cloaked bitches who treat slavegirls badly just because they're jealous.)

I think I could learn a thing or two from gorean men. I don't think I could be as rude as them, and I would hesitate to harm let alone whip a girl (unless she told me she was a masachist) but I could definitely be as strong as them and I could stand and walk like them, i liked the way Tiffany described the Visere, "Asif a lion had assumed human form".

I think women could learn a thing or two from Kajira, too. not so much just to submit to men. It's not just about pleaseing men, it's about fullfilling your oun desires.
slavegirls also tend to actually say exactly what they mean litterally "I beg for love" for example. Women are much better mind readers than men, but the one thing they can't read for themselves is that we aren't.
One point in the story personally struck home for me. at one point she figured out that there's two ways to please a man; one is to do stuff for him, the other is to simply let him do stuff to you. And I think she figured out, also, that her involuntary reaction to what he was doing was partly what pleased him the most. it's the latter that's more important, I think. Women could also learn from Gorean Slavegirls how to articulate their desires to their husbands/boyfreinds. If after reading a Gor book you still can't tell him what your turnons are, just hand him the book and let him read it.