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| 80 | 178 | They are, after all, are they not, the View more quotes about bodies">bodies of animals? The garmenture of the slave is, in effect, another of her freedoms, though she may well regard it with some trepidation, realizing how well, how boldly and excitingly, it reveals her to men, and her vulnerability. |
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| 80 | 175 | But beneath those robes and veils her body is there, embarrassing and troubling or not, in all its loveliness, as though waiting for its exposure or disrobing. |
| 80 | 176 | And surely she knows it is she, ready to flame alive in its exposure, as much as any other aspect of her, her mind, her features, her emotions, the needs of her belly, all such things which constitute the wholeness of her. |
| 80 | 177 | Does she, enclosed in those ornate blockades, wonder from time to time what it might be to feel a man's hands upon those stiff enwrapments, and wonder what it might be to feel them ripped from her, abruptly, imperiously, and feel the sudden flash of air upon lovely, startled skin? Does she wonder what it would be to be a whole female, loving her sex, and rejoicing in it? In any event the bodies of slaves are commonly well, if not entirely, exposed. |
| 80 | 178 | They are, after all, are they not, the bodies of animals? The garmenture of the slave is, in effect, another of her freedoms, though she may well regard it with some trepidation, realizing how well, how boldly and excitingly, it reveals her to men, and her vulnerability. |
| 80 | 179 | The garmenture makes it clear what she is, property. |
| 80 | 180 | A common justification of slave garmenture, though surely not the only one, nor the primary one, is that it is supposed to make the slave the desiderated object of raiders, thus supposedly diverting attention from precious, priceless free women. |
| 80 | 181 | Some slaves have been stolen several times, from one city, or caravan, or another. |