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| 13 | 207 | "There may be View more quotes about something">something to that," said Laura, "but I suspect that men dress their slaves as they do, if they dress them at all, because they find them exciting to look upon, and wish to call attention to their beauty, and enjoy displaying them as their properties. |
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| 13 | 204 | Tharlarion, Ellen had been told, were reptilian creatures, some of which were allegedly quite large, and domesticated. |
| 13 | 205 | Supposedly different varieties were used for various purposes, such as war, haulage and racing. |
| 13 | 206 | She was not sure, at that time, that such things existed, no more than larls, sleen, tarns, and such. |
| 13 | 207 | "There may be something to that," said Laura, "but I suspect that men dress their slaves as they do, if they dress them at all, because they find them exciting to look upon, and wish to call attention to their beauty, and enjoy displaying them as their properties. |
| 13 | 208 | Men are so vain. |
| 13 | 209 | You should see how some of them lead naked, painted, bejeweled slaves about on leashes, put them through slave paces publicly, make them dance in the open for tarsk-bits, put them up as stakes in the dicing halls, and marketplaces, and such. |
| 13 | 210 | And so, perhaps, free women insist on some compensatory distinction, to make it clear that they are not to be confused with such flesh-trash. |