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Free Women of City Cultures - Freedom to refrain from cooking and cleaning
The Free Woman, if there are no house slaves by choice or due to financial constraints, has the "freedom", for a fee, to make use of public slaves to clean, provide meals, and even care for the children. It could be perhaps mentioned that such work, cooking, cleaning and laundering, and such, is commonly regarded as being beneath even free women, particularly those of high castes. In the high cylinders, in Gorean cities, there are often public slaves who tend the central kitchens in cylinders, care for the children, but may not instruct them, and, for a tiny fee to the city, clean compartments and do laundering. Thus even families who cannot afford to own and feed a slave often have the use of several such unfortunate girls, commonly captured from hostile cities. Captive Should the free woman not wish to prepare a meal, she has the "freedom" to have a girl bring a meal from the central kitchens, or to dine at the public tables. The Gorean free woman, often, does only what work she chooses. If she does not wish to prepare a meal, she and her companions may go to the public tables, or, should they wish, order a girl to bring them food from the central kitchens. Captive The Free Woman has the freedom to have menial tasks performed by slaves, providing she has ownership of such slaves or the financial ability to pay for their use. Similarly the Gorean free woman does not seem appropriately suited to menial tasks. She is too free, too proud. It is difficult for a collared slave girl to even to look into the eyes of such a person. Thus, who is to do such work? The answer seems obvious, that it be done by the slaves. The small, light, unpleasant work will be done by the female slave; the large, heavy, unpleasant work by the draft animal, or the male slave. Why should free persons do such tasks? They have slaves for such work. And I well knew myself to be a slave. It was thus natural that it should be. I, and my sisters in bondage, who performed such labors. How else could it have been? Captive gorean_librarian@yahoo.com 
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