“In the books, slaves are fearful of being asked to testify in court because their testimony only counts if taken under torture. As of yet, I haven’t found how that actually happened in the books. Because, its stupid. It sounds cool, again from a BDSM mindset, but in practice it doesn’t work.”

What the author fails to understand is that Gor has little if anything to do with BDSM at all. Gor is a work of fiction and the product of extremely poor writing. Gorean philosophy does not embrace the concept of consensual power exchange and in fact eschews the idea of using domination, submission, bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism for pleasure as mental illness.

Perhaps the author needs to consider how self revealing her accusations of stupidity are and try to learn just a bit more about Gor and BDSM before attempting to pose as an expert on these subjects.

Somebody left the kennel door open, is this a slave revolution? /me shouts: “GUARDS…”

Slavery is outlawed, yes, but you can not stop what is in someone’s heart.. Yes, I like the right to vote, or work for that matter, but life would be so much easier if I were fuqing born in the Little house on the prairie time. ~lol~

Anyways, to each their own.

There are far sillier, more disgusting and repulsive things in SL than Gor (animal genitalia!)

Everything in Gor is consensual. (ctrl+shift+H, alt+F4, ctrl+Q)

What’s wrong with a bunch of guys playing as girls raping and dominating each other? Well, a lot, maybe. But it’s damn funny. Two fat guys in basements doing that to each other.

The real problem with Gor, for me, is it’s total lack of realism. Some things are ok, SOME(some, not much) RP is actually pretty good. Most people don’t look the part, at all. Lot’s of sad faced, big crying eyed guys with swords(most of Sl anyway). Haha! The rapid fire, infinite ammo bows…wth.
Even if you could fire that fast, and pull arrows out of your invisible bag of holding, your string-arm would fly off. Seeing as the ridiculous, capture for nothing panthers can rapid fire bows, they could wear armor. Although, I’ve read no one in the books wears armor, save for a shield or helmet. I could be wrong though.

Swords, by design, are NOT heavy. If they were, they wouldn’t be functional. So yeah, a woman in good shape should be able to wield one same as a man. It’d only get easier.

So may long posts! Sometimes I think people went afk when really, they’re writing a damn book!

My point to this ever-so-long ramble is this: None of you are a ‘master’ of shit. You’re crazy if you even think of calling yourselves ‘master’. Why? Because Mastery can’t occur externally until you can master yourselves. In this theology, the master should provide for and protect, and I’d be willing to be there aren’t very many of you who could even approach my wife and have her submit lol. She can probably shoot and defend herself better than you can (what can I say? haha so I guess she’s not a fair example). So beleive in what you want, but at least be able to seriously back the methodology of it all. Hell, I’m probably closer to Gorean than most of you reading this, and I find that sad.
SO, feel free to contact me to discuss any matters that arise from this, and I’ll grant you an ear. I’m not picking at ya, and I’d be more than willing to listen if you decide you’d like to regale me with a response. Happy Reading, and lemme know if you need any advice in gaining real strength:)
-Ville

Exactly – when there’s a long passage with master talking to slave, or two men discussing slavery, you can flip past it and pick up the story where it left off. In the later novels, you would only be reading half the book that way.

“This is the only thing worthwhile reading about Gor:”

Thank you for posting that link. The story is just wrong, so wrong, but it is well written in its Gorean gay bejeweled biker modalities, so to speak, the Caste of Scribes being the writers of such things, in their way, which is the way of those who write, being Gorean, as it were. Funny stuff.

“What amuses me about Gor is that on Gor, women “naturally find their place and revel in it” meaning “enjoy being chattel to a bunch of sadistic “manly” men who also do everything they can to lie, cheat, and trick women into slavery”.”

Maybe you could provide a few examples of this, because I don’t recall any man in any of the novels saying “Here, let me snap this collar around your neck. It will keep you warm at night, and it wards off demons. (snap) GOTCHA!” Women in the novels were either forcibly enslaved or they submitted themselves for enslavement. They weren’t tricked into it.