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Abstract obscurity, as usual, vanishes in concrete context. - (Prize of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #800)

Please forgive this excursion into speculative etymology. Ellen finds such matters fascinating, perhaps in part because she has been so handled and so roped. What is perfectly clear and indisputable is that in Gorean 'slave bow', putting aside considerations of origin, derivation and chronology, and such, has the basic meaning of the forming of the slave's body into a bow, and two application meanings, one pertaining to a modality of exhibition and the other to a modality of binding. Abstract obscurity, as usual, vanishes in concrete context. As this phenomenon is common in many languages, it is not surprising that it should appear in Gorean, as well. A stripped free woman might, of course, be put in a "slave bow," without compromising the meaning of the expression. And the free woman might find this situation instructive, and anticipatory. - (Prize of Gor)