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| 27 | 1375 | Is there not a View more quotes about collar">collar on their neck, which they cannot remove? Are they in slave garb not much bared, even brazenly exhibited? Must they not now kneel, even to those who might formerly have been equals and peers? Must they not now obey instantly and unquestioningly? Are they not now owned? Are they not now properties? May they not now be bought and sold? Are they not now, too, mere animals, livestock? But these feelings tend to pass. |
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| 27 | 1372 | They are beautiful, they are desired, they are prized. |
| 27 | 1373 | They are a lovely and precious ingredient in Gorean civilization. |
| 27 | 1374 | Are they not special? Were they not, would men bid upon them and buy them with such eagerness? A new slave, of course, might feel, at least at the beginning, what free women would like them to feel all the time, embarrassment, burning shame, acute mortification, and such. |
| 27 | 1375 | Is there not a collar on their neck, which they cannot remove? Are they in slave garb not much bared, even brazenly exhibited? Must they not now kneel, even to those who might formerly have been equals and peers? Must they not now obey instantly and unquestioningly? Are they not now owned? Are they not now properties? May they not now be bought and sold? Are they not now, too, mere animals, livestock? But these feelings tend to pass. |
| 27 | 1376 | The collar soon comes to be viewed not as an emblem of degradation but as a badge of quality, a symbol of female excellence, which, to be sure, she cannot remove, a testimonial to her desirability, a sign that she has been found of interest to men, that she is a woman of the sort men want. |
| 27 | 1377 | And when she becomes more a slave she comes to understand that slave garb is not degrading, but enhancing. |
| 27 | 1378 | She discovers that her beauty, unlike when she was a free woman, is nothing to be ashamed of, but is rather something in which to rejoice, something in which to take pleasure and pride. |