The Free Woman is free to refrain from exercise and diet regimens.
This is another "freedom" which is best seen in the books in its direct
contrast to slaves.
The lovely figures of slave girls are not accidents, only Free Women are
permitted to become unkempt or gross.
Guardsman
Sometimes the slave is not fed. This might occur for aesthetic reasons,
as, for example, if her measurements, which are generally carefully kept,
should minutely depart from her master's conception of her ideal curvatures;
Tribesmen
To one side there was a set of mats for Musicians, who almost invariably
were present at the sessions, for even the exercises of the girls, which
were carefully selected and frequently performed, are done to music; against
one wall were several bars, also used in exercise, not unlike a training
room in ballet except that there were four parallel bars fastened in the
wall, which are used in a variety of exercises.
Assassin
At last, after this cruel and almost interminable repetition, utilizing
simple psychological principles, intended to brand into the girls' psyche
the identity of a Pleasure Slave, the girls began the period of exercises,
many of which would, for certain periods of the day, be carried through
the next months.
Assassin
As a warrior applies himself to the arts of his weapons, so I applied
myself to the arts of the female slave, which I was. I became sleek and
more beautiful from the diet and the exercises.
Captive
Here, a free woman being appraised by the eyes of a man, is deemed to be well
curved - and the diet and exercise forced upon a slave could much improve her.
) “In short,” I said, “you entered the inn, and remained here, in spite
of the fact you had not the wherewithal to meet your obligations, expecting
perhaps you might somehow do so with impunity, that your bills would perhaps
be simply overlooked, or dismissed by the inn in futile anger, or that
eager men could be found to pay them, doubtless vying for the privilege
of being of service to lofty free women.”
“Would you have had us spend the night on the road, like peasants?”
demanded the third woman.
“But these are hard times,” I said, “and not all men are fools.”
The third woman cried out with anger, shaking her shackles. She was well
curved, and diet and exercise could much improve her. I thought she might
bring as much as sixty copper tarsks in a market. If that were so, and the
inn sold her for that much, they would have made then, as I recalled, some
twenty-five copper tarsks on her.
Renegades