Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 309 | The View more quotes about culture">culture has not suppressed the biotruths of human nature but found a place for them. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 306 | Accordingly, when an Earth female finds herself translated to Gor, she finds herself, for the first time, in the presence of large numbers of men to whom nature and power are not anathema. |
| 8 | 307 | Moreover, she is likely to find herself belonging to them. |
| 8 | 308 | Beyond this, of course, the culture itself, for all its possible defects and faults, is one which has been constructed to be congenial to the natural biological order, and neither antithetical to, nor contradictory of it. |
| 8 | 309 | The culture has not suppressed the biotruths of human nature but found a place for them. |
| 8 | 310 | The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, ennobling her and exalting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half-starved and chained. |
| 8 | 311 | An example of this sort of thing is the institution of female slavery. |
| 8 | 312 | It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with its hundreds of aspects and facets, legal, social and aesthetic. |
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Accordingly, when an Earth female finds herself translated to Gor, she finds herself, for the first time, in the presence of large numbers of men to whom nature and power are not anathema.
Moreover, she is likely to find herself belonging to them.
Beyond this, of course, the culture itself, for all its possible defects and faults, is one which has been constructed to be congenial to the natural biological order, and neither antithetical to, nor contradictory of it.
The culture has not suppressed the biotruths of human nature but found a place for them.
The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, ennobling her and exalting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half-starved and chained.
An example of this sort of thing is the institution of female slavery.
It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with its hundreds of aspects and facets, legal, social and aesthetic.
- (Guardsman of Gor)