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| 8 | 101 | Its usual View more quotes about purpose">purpose, then, is not merely to hold the lovely prisoner but to make it clear to any observer, casual or otherwise, that she is powerless, vulnerable, defenseless, and unprotected, accordingly, not merely to confine her, but to expose her, or should one say, in the case of a slave, as she is goods, to display her. |
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| 8 | 98 | It is also, of course, strong, or strong enough, at least, to well exceed the strength of women. |
| 8 | 99 | It is also, commonly, graceful, even lovely, and is designed to set off and enhance the beauty of its prisoner, while putting her wholly at the mercy of the free. |
| 8 | 100 | She is, after all, a slave. |
| 8 | 101 | Its usual purpose, then, is not merely to hold the lovely prisoner but to make it clear to any observer, casual or otherwise, that she is powerless, vulnerable, defenseless, and unprotected, accordingly, not merely to confine her, but to expose her, or should one say, in the case of a slave, as she is goods, to display her. |
| 8 | 102 | For example, the slave bracelets we wore, which pinioned our wrists so helplessly behind our backs, were attractive. |
| 8 | 103 | One might have mistaken them for ornaments or jewelry, were it not for the inflexible metal links which joined them. |
| 8 | 104 | I have wondered sometimes if free women do not sometimes wonder what it would be to find themselves in such "ornaments" or "jewelry," stripped and helpless within them. |