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| 23 | 48 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, the matter is paradoxical, for the free women have a tendency both to inquire eagerly into the behaviors expected of slaves, and enjoined upon them, and, at the same time, commonly profess horror and scandal at what they hear. |
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| 23 | 45 | Naturally both free women and slaves, as both are women, are very much interested in one another's sexual activities. |
| 23 | 46 | It is very natural. |
| 23 | 47 | To be sure, unless the slave is a bred slave, most of this interest is on the part of the free women, for the slaves have usually, at one time or another, been free women, and have a very good idea of how narrow, dull, limited and mediocre is the sex life of the free woman. |
| 23 | 48 | Indeed, the matter is paradoxical, for the free women have a tendency both to inquire eagerly into the behaviors expected of slaves, and enjoined upon them, and, at the same time, commonly profess horror and scandal at what they hear. |
| 23 | 49 | But sometimes a free woman will almost beg a slave, as though she might be a freshly branded collar-sister, for some little thing or another, psychological or otherwise, to delight or stimulate her companion, perhaps even to freshen or retain his interest, perhaps even to save a deteriorating relationship. |
| 23 | 50 | Sometimes, however, this has unusual consequences. |
| 23 | 51 | The astonished companion may then begin to suspect that his companion has not been fully open with him, that she may not always have been free, but, indeed, may once have been a slave. |