All power is with the Master
The slave thus strives to be pleasing enough that her Master will keep her I considered the unilaterality of the master/slave relationship. All power
is with the master. This, of course, has its effect upon the slave. Let her
strive to be such that her master will keep her.
Magicians
A full, complete slavery arouses a slave " 'Do you think you will have an easy slavery with me?' he asked.
'No, Master,' she said.
'You are right,' he said. 'Your slavery will be a full slavery.'
'I desire no other,' she said, turning her head to face him.
I could smell the heat of her."
Explorers
Slave responds to being choiceless, overpowered "I am a slave girl. I live to be the obedient, grateful, vunerable object
of such lust and power. I have always dreamed of it. I wish to be choiceless,
to be overpowered, and made to serve."
Magicians
"Being a slave is a whole way of life, involving a total modality of
existence. There is a great deal more to it than simply serving a master on
the furs."
Players
Whether a girl may wear clothing is solely at the Masters discretion
She strives to be pleasing enough to deserve it I regarded the girl. In warmer seasons, or warmer areas, one may take
one's time in making the decision as to whether or not a female is to be
permitted clothing. Some masters keep their slaves naked for a year or more.
The girl is grateful when, and if, she is permitted clothing, be it only a bit
of cloth or some rag or other.
Mercenaries
Whether a slave is allowed to eat or not is completely in the masters control
In so simple a fashion, by hand feeding, and floor watering, not permitting
the slave to use her hands, I had demonstrated to her, in the Gorean fashion,
that her food and water, even such simple things as whether she was to eat or
drink, or not, were in my control.
Guardsman
Slaves are fed if they have been pleasing
Control of food is used to encourage a girl to strive desperately to please I was hungry, and it was now dusk.
"When do we eat? I asked Ute.
"After the masters," said Ute, referring to the guards in the plural, "if we
please them."
"If we please them?" I asked.
"I am always fed," said Lana.
"Do not fear," said Ute, laughing at me, "you are white silk!"
I looked down.
"You will please them," Ute reassured me. "We all will. Why do you think they
asked for us?"
"Perhaps we should have eaten in the food line," I said.
"And be beaten?" asked Lana.
"No," I said, confused.
"A hungry girl often serves better," said Ute. Then she laughed at me. "Do not
fear," she said. "If they like you, they will throw you food."
Captive
Slaves, unable to eat unless given food by their masters, are acutely aware
that when they are not fed - they have not been pleasing
Few things so impress a mans dominance on a slave as control of her food
Girls who strive to be pleasing and are pleasing are fed
Girls who are not, are not Much depends on the man; the will of the girl counts for nothing. In some
dwellings a girl must, before the evening meal, hand her plate to the man; he
will then, normally, return it to her; if she has not been completely pleasing
to him, on the other hand, she may not be fed that night. Control of a girl’s
food not only permits the intelligent regulation of her caloric intake but
provides an excellent instrument for keeping her in line; control the food,
control the girl. Food control, for the man, also has unexpected rewards. Few
things so impress a man’s dominance on her, or her dependence upon him, than
the control of her food. So simple a thing thrills her to the core. It makes
her eager to please him as a slave girl.
Slave Girl
Food sometimes withheld simply to remind a girl on whom she depends for her
very life
Or to encourage her to strive even harder Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. It was slave bread,
rough and coarse-grained. The beauty ate it eagerly. She had not known if she
was to be fed that day. 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; sometimes merely to remind her of on whom she depends,
totally, for her very life, sometimes as a training or disciplinary measure;
sometimes merely to startle or puzzle her. What has she done? She is not told.
Has she not been sufficiently pleasing? She is not told. The girl, frightened,
anxious, redoubles her efforts to please in all the thousand spheres of her
slavery, intellectual, physical and imaginative; no master, it is said, who
has not denied his girl food knows her; pleasant indeed are the surprises
which such a fellow, who thought hitherto he knew his girl, upon the
completion of the simple experiment, receives; the girl's wits are sharpened;
she becomes resourceful, helpless, desperate, attentive, inventive; "Feed me,
Master," she begs. "Feed me!" at the conclusion of such an experiment, when
she is fed, it is always, kneeling naked, from his hand. The lesson is not
soon forgotten. Few things so impress the dominance of a male on a woman, and
her dependence on him, as his control of her food. This dominance, provided it
is absolute, thrills a woman to the core.
Tribesmen
Masters often know their slaves deeply
This knowledge of his slave puts her more at his mercy
He may exploit her weaknesses and manipulate her feelings in his mastery of her,
giving him greater power over her
It is not uncommon for masters to pride themselves on the depth with which
they know their slave girls; this depth is far greater in my opinion than
that with which the average husband of Earth knows his wife; the slave girl
is not simply someone with whom the man lives; she is very special to him;
she is a treasured possession; he owns her; he wants to know, profoundly and
deeply, the background, history, the mind, the intelligence, the appetites,
the nature and the dispositions of his lovely article of property; this
knowledge, of course, puts her more at his mercy; by making it possible for
him to manipulate her feelings, exploit weaknesses, drop asides, etc., she
in the helpless condition of slavery, it gives him greater power over her.
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length
and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and
elaborating on her fantasies: if she is literate, she may be forced, naked,
collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled,
to write them out; this supplies the master, of course, with abundant
materials which may be used by him to make her further and more helplessly
his; sometimes the girl attempts to deceive the master; it is not difficult
to detect inauthenticity in such matters; she is then beaten; too, she may
at times be ordered to invent fantasies, sometimes of a certain type; these,
too, for she has invented them, are, to an astute master, instructive; these
intellectual, emotional exercises, performed by the girl under a condition of
slavery, particularly if coupled with an enforced exercise regime, posings
under male surveillance, and such, can do much to sensitize her to her
collar;
Tribesmen
"Comb your hair," said a man, bringing out a box of wooden combs, "and then
you will be fed."
We took the combs and knelt, letting the blankets fall about our waist, and
combed our hair. I think it pleased the men to see us do this. Gorean men
relish women, and enjoy watching them, even in the performance of such simple,
homely acts as combing their hair. To be sure, we were bare-breasted, and
slaves, and obeying. We had not been asked to form a combing circle, probably
because they were willing to permit us to remain in the vicinity of the fire.
There were too few of us to circumscribe the fire. We would have had to
withdraw from the fire, or most of us. In the combing circle we kneel in a
circle, each girl combing the hair of the girl in front of her. Making us
comb our hair before we were fed, incidentally, is typical of the manner in
which Gorean men treat female slaves. The woman is to be presentable and
beautiful, before she is permitted food. How much darker, I noted, did my
hair, and that of the other brunets look, when it was wet. The combs were of
yellow wood, and had long teeth. The entire comb, including the teeth, was
about five inches square. There are various hairdos in which such combs are
worn in the hair. usually, however, the hair of slaves is worn long, and
loose, or confined only in some simple way, as with a ribbon or woolen fillet.
Some masters like the ponytail hairdo on a slave, which, on Gor, is usually
spoken of as the "leash," or "hair leash," for, by it, a girl may be
conveniently seized and controlled. Upswept hairdos are usually reserved for
free women, or high slaves. They are a hairdo of that sort to a slave is the
master's pleasure in undoing it, in loosening it, thus reminding even the
high slave that in his arms, ultimately, she, the high slave, is yet a slave,
and as much or more than the lowest girl in the most remote village. The
loosening of a woman's hair on Gor in an extremely sensuous, meaningful act.
"Who loosens her hair?" is a way of asking, in effect, who owns her.
Dancer
Struck with a whip when not standing beautifully
The slave is shown that she is, in a way, important - she is to be beautiful and
nothing less will be accepted from her The back of my calves, where I had been struck, now felt better. That had
really been foolish of me, standing in a slovenly manner in the coffle, when
there might have been men about, and indeed, had been one, and with a whip.
That I had been lashed, however, showed me that I was, in a way, important,
and that men cared about me. I was a female. I made some sort of difference
to them. They were genuinely interested in females, and liked them, and were
concerned with them. They wanted us to be as charming and beautiful as we
could be, and would, frankly, hold us accountable for such things.
Dancer
Reminded utterly that he controls her I cuffed her, backhanded, striking her from her position to her side on the
love furs. She looked up at me from the furs, her eyes wide, blood at her
mouth. Then she resumed the position of the pleasure slave.
"Last night," she said. "Did it mean nothing? Surely you love me!"
"Be silent, Slave," I said.
"Yes, Master," she said
I picked up the whip.
"Am I to be whipped?" she asked.
"If it pleases me," I said.
"Yes, Master," she said.
I held the whip to her mouth, its blades folded back.
She kissed it, and shuddered, and I placed it on the couch.
I slid the bronze pot toward her, across the tiles, to where, going to the end
of her chain, she might reach it. "Relieve yourself," I told her, "facing me."
"Yes, Master," she said and, backing toward the pot, and squatting over it,
she did so.
I enjoyed making her perform this simple, homely act is my presence.
"I am a slave, aren't I?" she asked.
"Yes,` I said.
I then slid the pot to the side of the room, and gave her a pan of water and a
rag, with which she might freshen herself. When she had done this I put the
pan and the rag to one side. She then knelt again in the position of the
pleasure slave, on the furs, the heavy chain dangling between her breasts, and
then lying over her left thigh, thence descending to the furs and lifting to
the slave ring.
"Good morning," I said to her.
"Good morning, Master," she said.
Guardsman
I held a date before her, and she leaned forward, stretching her chained
neck to reach it, and I drew it back. She then knelt back again, on her heels.
Whether she were to receive
the date or not was my decision I then gave it to her, putting it in her
mouth.
"My Master feeds me," she whispered. "The slave is grateful."
I then put a shallow porcelain bowl of water on the floor, and pointed to it.
She drank from it on her hands and knees, lapping from it, as a she-sleen. "My
Master waters me," she said, looking at me, from her hands and knees, the
chain hanging from the collar on her neck. "A slave is grateful."
In so simple a fashion, by hand feeding, and floor watering, not permitting
the slave to use her hands, I had demonstrated to her, in the Gorean fashion,
that her food and water, even such simple things as whether she was to eat or
drink, or not, were in my control.
Guardsman
Men take great joy in the slaves that they own " 'Do masters much talk with their girls, or take them with them?' she
asked.
'Certainly,' I said. 'It is extremely pleasurable to talk with a girl one
owns. Also, one takes her many places, she heeling him, to concerts,
contests, song dramas and so on, both to show her off and because he finds
her a joy to be with.'
'I think I could well serve such a master,' she said."
Beasts