Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 198 | I have View more quotes about wondered">wondered upon occasion about this practice, so different on Gor than on Earth. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 195 | There is, of course, a natural tendency in the rescued female to feel and demonstrate great gratitude to the man who has saved her life, and the Gorean custom is perhaps no more than an institutionalization of this customary response. |
| 20 | 196 | There are cases where a free woman in the vicinity of a man she desired has deliberately placed herself in jeopardy. |
| 20 | 197 | The man then, after having been forced to risk his life, is seldom in a mood to use the girl other than as his slave. |
| 20 | 198 | I have wondered upon occasion about this practice, so different on Gor than on Earth. |
| 20 | 199 | On my old world when a woman is saved by a man she may, I understand, with propriety bestow upon him a grateful kiss and perhaps, if we may believe the tales in these matters, consider him more seriously because of his action as a possible, eventual companion in wedlock. |
| 20 | 200 | One of these girls, if rescued on Gor, would probably be dumbfounded at what would happen to her. |
| 20 | 201 | After her kiss of gratitude, which might last a good deal longer than she had anticipated, she would find herself forced to kneel and be collared and then, stripped, her wrists confined behind her back in slave bracelets, she would find herself led stumbling away on a slave leash from the field of her champion's valor. |
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There is, of course, a natural tendency in the rescued female to feel and demonstrate great gratitude to the man who has saved her life, and the Gorean custom is perhaps no more than an institutionalization of this customary response.
There are cases where a free woman in the vicinity of a man she desired has deliberately placed herself in jeopardy.
The man then, after having been forced to risk his life, is seldom in a mood to use the girl other than as his slave.
I have wondered upon occasion about this practice, so different on Gor than on Earth.
On my old world when a woman is saved by a man she may, I understand, with propriety bestow upon him a grateful kiss and perhaps, if we may believe the tales in these matters, consider him more seriously because of his action as a possible, eventual companion in wedlock.
One of these girls, if rescued on Gor, would probably be dumbfounded at what would happen to her.
After her kiss of gratitude, which might last a good deal longer than she had anticipated, she would find herself forced to kneel and be collared and then, stripped, her wrists confined behind her back in slave bracelets, she would find herself led stumbling away on a slave leash from the field of her champion's valor.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)