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| 10 | 484 | The most significant View more quotes about reasons">reasons, however, I suspect, have to do with the gratifications of men, who enjoy dressing us, if at all, for their pleasure, and with the informative, mnemonic, and stimulatory effects achieved on the slave herself. |
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| 10 | 481 | But there are, doubtless, several reasons for the distinctive forms of garb in which kajirae are placed. |
| 10 | 482 | One commonly mentioned reason is that it draws a clear distinction in a profoundly stratified society between our lowliness, marked by our rags, or brief tunics, and such, and the loftiness of free women, expressed in the complexity, richness and ornateness of their habiliments. |
| 10 | 483 | It is not likely then that we will be confused with our betters. |
| 10 | 484 | The most significant reasons, however, I suspect, have to do with the gratifications of men, who enjoy dressing us, if at all, for their pleasure, and with the informative, mnemonic, and stimulatory effects achieved on the slave herself. |
| 10 | 485 | It is hard to be dressed in certain fashions without comprehending very clearly and meaningfully that one is beautiful and desirable—and owned. |
| 10 | 486 | These comprehensions, in turn, enhance sexual responsiveness. |
| 10 | 487 | The garmenture of the slave, then, has its effect not only on those who see her, but on the slave herself. |