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| 54 | 278 | It is View more quotes about common">common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition. |
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| 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. |
| 54 | 281 | The connotation in all these cases, with which the red savage, in the fluency and depth with which he understands his own language, is fully cognizant, and to which he responds, is that of something red which is pleasant to feel, something that is soft and smooth to the touch. |