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| 27 | 1492 | Too, if the View more quotes about slave">slave should be standing, her hands chained over her head, nude on a sales shelf, or be nude, half kneeling, half lying, chained on a heavy, wooden platform, or such, it is easy to see how she might feel, finding herself the object of a male's scrutiny. |
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| 27 | 1489 | Part of that sense is that the woman, whether slave or free, becomes much aware of her own body and its sensations, and, interestingly, becomes much aware of, and experiences, her own nudity. |
| 27 | 1490 | Even the free woman, fully clothed, has a sudden sense of her body, naked, within her encumbering robes. |
| 27 | 1491 | And if the free woman can have such a sensation one may well understand, I trust, the radical accentuation of such sensations on the part of a slave, who is purchasable, and who is commonly much exhibited to begin with, often shielded by no more than the single, thin, flimsy layer of a brief rep-cloth tunic. |
| 27 | 1492 | Too, if the slave should be standing, her hands chained over her head, nude on a sales shelf, or be nude, half kneeling, half lying, chained on a heavy, wooden platform, or such, it is easy to see how she might feel, finding herself the object of a male's scrutiny. |
| 27 | 1493 | Do you not think she is not then muchly aware of her body, and its nudity, even were it, say, within the confines of a tunic? Do you think she is not then suddenly aware of the pull of the tunic on a breast, the whispering touch of a hem on her thigh? The slave is often aware that she is wanted, and as a man wants a woman. |
| 27 | 1494 | This could take place many times a day. |
| 27 | 1495 | Certainly this occurs frequently enough in the plazas and on the streets, in the markets and parks, in the promenades, and such. |