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To a Gorean ear names such as 'Jean' or 'Joan' have an exotic flavor, and are regarded as fit names for slaves brought in from such far-off, mysterious places as "Tennessee" or "Oregon". - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #17)

She might have been of Earth, of course. After a few months on Gor it often becomes very difficult to distinguish Earth girls from Gorean girls, at least without a careful examination of their bodies, for example, for fillings in the teeth, or an inquiry, they kneeling before you, into their specific antecedents. Goreans sometimes give Earth-girl names to Gorean girls, as they think of them as excellent slave names. To a Gorean ear names such as 'Jean' or 'Joan' have an exotic flavor, and are regarded as fit names for slaves brought in from such far-off, mysterious places as "Tennessee" or "Oregon". Some girls, too, coming to understand the sensuous connotations of their names on Gor come to regard them then no longer as common, or plain, names, but, like the Goreans, as thrilling, beautiful names, and come to revel in them, and try to live up to them, as superb slaves. To be sure, they know they wear them now only as slave names, theirs only by the will of a master. It is true that Earth girls are regarded as slave stock by Goreans, but I think, at least these days, that there is nothing special about this, really. - (Renegades of Gor)