Results Details

How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a larl in one's house is less to be feared than a woman's tongue. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #1294)

Speaking is something they do beautifully. Richly are they endowed with the métier of language. Is it not with their voice and tongue, as well as their beauty, that they have softened hearts and won velvet victories, have built bridges and roads between hearts, indeed, have swayed armies and launched fleets? Certainly their tenderness and lyricism, the arrows of their eyes and the engines of their tongues, have won a thousand fields and overcome a thousand cities. How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a larl in one's house is less to be feared than a woman's tongue. To be sure, the woman in question is a free woman. But all female slaves, save those bred for bondage, in a way that not all women are bred for bondage, it being ingredient in their biological nature and destiny, were once free. Accordingly the female slave, just as her free sister, is undeniably possessed of that same superb device of woman for winning her way, her subtle, skilled and lively tongue. - (Renegades of Gor)