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| 10 | 478 | I was no stranger to this View more quotes about sort">sort of thing. |
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| 10 | 475 | Men like to see what they are getting, all of it. |
| 10 | 476 | It is said that only a fool would buy a woman clothed. |
| 10 | 477 | That is doubtless true. |
| 10 | 478 | I was no stranger to this sort of thing. |
| 10 | 479 | Before I had been sold I had been so examined in great detail, even to the extent of performing what was almost a choreography before my prospective buyers, that my features, expressions, attitudes, movements, charms, if any, and such, might be the better assessed. |
| 10 | 480 | One theory for the revealing garb in which kajirae are commonly kept is that in a primitive, warlike, barbarous world, a world in which slavery is common, and beautiful women are regarded as a familiar form of booty, such garb tends to make them the desiderated objects of capture, seizure and theft, this being thought, in its way, to constitute something of a protection for the free women, in their cumbersome, concealing robes and veils. |
| 10 | 481 | But there are, doubtless, several reasons for the distinctive forms of garb in which kajirae are placed. |