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It might be mentioned that literacy in a slave girl can improve her price, but it does not always do so. - (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #63)

Many seem to feel that literacy is something to conceal if one is a warrior; that literacy is for, say, poets, or scribes, and not something appropriate for those trained to the mud of the field or the reins of the tarn, for those whose province it is to do war, to command, to fight and rule. "One can always buy a slave for such things". In the high cities, of course, in an urbanized environment, literacy is far more common than in the countryside, even among the lower castes. It might be mentioned that literacy in a slave girl can improve her price, but it does not always do so. Few men buy a slave for her literacy; her intelligence is another matter. Some highly intelligent men who hold reading and writing in contempt, however unreasonably, enjoy buying a sophisticated, beautiful, literate slave girl, once of high caste, and take great pleasure in ruthlessly mastering every cell in her beautiful body; though literate, and doubtless initially contemptuous of him, she soon learns in his arms that he is her master; too, it will take her little time to suspect, or learn, that his own intelligence, raw and untutored though it may be, is far superior to her own; it is pleasant then to have her, begging, at one's feet. But then have not barbarians often used the sophisticated, educated women of the enemy, embonded, in such a way? Earth-girl slaves brought to Gor will not have such problems, as they will be illiterate in Gorean; their Earth literacy counts for naught; in this respect literate Gorean slave girls have little to fear from them. - (Blood Brothers of Gor)