Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 54 | 277 | Needless to say, View more quotes about slaves">slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the "white-silk" category. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 54 | 274 | "Red Silk" will not do as a translation because corn silk, or the hair at the side of the head, is quite different from silk, the cloth. |
| 54 | 275 | Similarly, the expression "red silk," in Gorean, tends to be used as a category in slaving, and also, outside the slaving context, as an expression in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a virgin, or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body has been opened by men. |
| 54 | 276 | Its contrasting term is "white silk," usually used of slaves who are still virgins, or, equivalently, slaves whose bodies have not yet been opened by men. |
| 54 | 277 | Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the "white-silk" category. |
| 54 | 278 | It is common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition. |
| 54 | 279 | The translation "Red Corn Silk," too, does not seem felicitous. |
| 54 | 280 | The best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages. |
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"Red Silk" will not do as a translation because corn silk, or the hair at the side of the head, is quite different from silk, the cloth.
Similarly, the expression "red silk," in Gorean, tends to be used as a category in slaving, and also, outside the slaving context, as an expression in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a virgin, or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body has been opened by men.
Its contrasting term is "white silk," usually used of slaves who are still virgins, or, equivalently, slaves whose bodies have not yet been opened by men.
Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the "white-silk" category.
It is common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition.
The translation "Red Corn Silk," too, does not seem felicitous.
The best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)