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| 22 | 159 | And View more quotes about certainly">certainly, if the woman is theirs, it is exactly the sort of thing that would be expected of them, and required of them, by their lords and masters. |
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| 22 | 156 | It is quite likely that, in the history of the human species, thousands of women have begged for their lives by dancing naked before severe captors, and that the case even in historical times, before Chaldeans and Hittites, Assyrians and Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, Goths, Mongols, Crusaders, Turks, and others. |
| 22 | 157 | And the most provocative and erotic of dances, of course, is slave dance. |
| 22 | 158 | Accordingly then its power and beauty is sought avidly by women desiring to be pleasing to men, to masters. |
| 22 | 159 | And certainly, if the woman is theirs, it is exactly the sort of thing that would be expected of them, and required of them, by their lords and masters. |
| 22 | 160 | And so, Ellen thought, perhaps there is a sense in which slave dance does lurk in the belly of every woman, a basic biological, genetic sense. |
| 22 | 161 | Certainly such a disposition, as with many others, such as the desire to belong, to be found pleasing, to love and serve, would contribute to success in matters of gene replication. |
| 22 | 162 | And these genes would then be transmitted to future generations, assisting in the shaping of a species. |