Comments on: Extortion! Brutality! Ageplay! Goreans!

By: Nadir Taov

Nadir Taov — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:50:16 +0000

Your argument is quite hypocritical – I find no difference in Gor vs. Forced Fantasies. Both are genres of role-playing (defined: In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds …) There’s nothing more to it than that.

You claim that places like the crack den encourages illegal behavior, while in Gor fantasies, sexism is encouraged and kind of mentality ok because it’s a “man’s” concept? Also, you say that those who participate in Gor better differentiate between SL and RL? These are very biased comments which, in my personal experience with Goreans in SL, is absolutely not true.

And as for where the “Crack Den” is … please do a search for it again It has actually EXPANDED over 4 sims and sustains a very large community of people who respect one another and understand the concept of “role-play”. http://thecrackden.com

By: Charles Tiramisu

Charles Tiramisu — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:21:42 +0000

Well, I do not apologize for naming names such as Faith, nor any other SIMs, as I visited the Crack Den, and where is it now? SL has dissolved many of places such as that one due to the moral and legal standing points, similar to the removal of casinos for legal reasons. Faith and I are good friends and she has no objections to what was said. Unlike many, I am not afraid to speak my mind. And for Gor, Gor is a man’s world, so yes, it is very sexist to say the least. If you study Gor, read the books, John Norman makes that very clear multiple times. Everything is swayed to the ability of the men and the woman at their feet. Even Swena, whom was an Outlaw, was captured as part of some Mercs, collared, then MArlenus freed her, then told them to “hamstring the Outlaw” dealing with a female tht took up a weapon, a bow, against free men. Gor is not for wmoen’s libbers. Many of the persons I have seen here that have made their comments, I have checked on, some are Gor in their own lil fashion, but some have no clue what Gor is in that they have only read reviews of Gor and not the actual books. I back everything I said in that article, and unless someone can bring proof to the contrary, my words stand.

By: BeBe Pink

BeBe Pink — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:36:23 +0000

I find it funny that comments were made about my sim and this person doesn’t know the first thing about it. Nice. You don’t want people judging you and your gorean role play, but yet you pass judgement on other’s role play and insult women. Whatever. Thanks for mentioning the Crack Den though, gave me some free publicity.

By: Sakkara Quamar

Sakkara Quamar — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:16:45 +0000

Tarl is heavily trained by the warrior caste in the first book to an unbelivable level of fitness and strength, he gets his ass kicked for missing a bullseye by a milimeter, and if he messed up in his training he would have been slain by his traiining partners.

As for Elisabeth or Vella as she became known, she was trained to be one thing and one thing alone, that of a slave girl.

Women on Gor werent trained as fighters, not even the panthers or Talunas, though they did capture many a man, even Tarl, thanks to drugged wine and traps in the forests.

By: Nan

Nan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:35:58 +0000

Women vs. men in real life- MOST men are stronger than MOST women. There are always exceptions to every rule. And many (but by no means all)women are naturally submissive; I believe this is a biological holdover from caveman days, when women and their children needed to be protected by men to survive. But it shouldn’t matter to people WHAT the real life balance of power is. SL is a game, not reality. Trying to take a created fantasy world and make it real is neither possible nor wise, in my opinion.

By: Char

Char — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:59:22 +0000

I think this is very wrong of them to mention thentis like that and Faith stormwind without asking her about what was said He had no rights to speak of what he has no clue about and to top that off I would like to say What sim in SL gor doesnt have drama. Too single out 2 sims like that and state peoples names without them knowing is really wrong and think that there should be some apologies on this writers part.
Very disappointed in Charles for making these statements and shows what kind of character you are for making these points without the true facts.

By: Alex Fitzsimmons

Alex Fitzsimmons — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:21:14 +0000

Or “of certain individuals,” even. That’s what I get for trying to post at such an odd hour. ;p

By: Alex Fitzsimmons

Alex Fitzsimmons — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:20:06 +0000

Uhh …

I guess put me down for a spot somewhere between Dave’s “men are strictly superior to women” and Seola’s “women are strictly superior to men” positions.

I’m more interested in what it means to be a slave and why one is or isn’t one, and in the demonstrated (especially inner) strength of individuals certain, than in any kind of battle of the sexes.

The article was interesting, though. I didn’t learn a lot that I didn’t already know, but the part about mafia groups attempting extortion was a news item for me.

By: Artemis Fate

Artemis Fate — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:05:30 +0000

Well I don’t think Dave is coming back.

By: Seola Sassoon a.k.a Random Writer

Seola Sassoon a.k.a Random Writer — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:25:48 +0000

lol, Too funny Rosa.